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Reuters:
Apple's Schiller defends iPad mini's price tag  —  (Reuters) - Apple marketing wizard Phil Schiller defended the $329 price of the new iPad mini tablet, saying consumers will be willing to pay for quality not found in less expensive devices from rivals like Google and Amazon.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple confirms that 12W adapter will charge iPads quicker than older 10W adapters  —  The morning of Apple's iPad mini event earlier this week, we told you there was a handful of new accessories coming including four new Lightning adapters and a 12W USB power adapter.
Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch:
iPad resales surge over 700% … Two major resale sites reported eye-popping surges in business in the run-up to the iPad Mini launch.  Some 140,000 devices were put up for sale on Gazelle.com Tuesday - a 700% spike from the day before, says Anthony Scarsella, chief gadget officer at the site.
Dara Kerr / CNET:
Judge steps down in patent lawsuit filed over Apple's Siri  —  In a new lawsuit that claims Apple's virtual personal assistant is infringing on already developed patent technology, the judge recuses himself because of “interest” in the tech company.  —  A recently filed lawsuit over Apple's Siri …
Joel Zand / Justia Law, Technology & …:
Apple Faces Patent Infringement Suit Over Siri  —  Apple was hit with a patent infringement lawsuit (read it below) over Siri, the Cupertino, California company's computer voice search-and-speak technology inside newer iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices.  The twist in this case, however …
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Samsung Series 3 Chromebook review  —  With ARM, has Google's cloud-based laptop finally found its soulmate?  —  People laugh when I pull the old Samsung Series 5 Chromebook out of my bag.  I almost feel the need to apologize for it when I turn it on: “Here's a $450 laptop that just browses the web.
Moritz Jaeger / ZDNet:
Google, Microsoft and Nokia launch one-stop ‘hide from maps’ service in Germany  —  Summary: Google, Microsoft and other companies have come together to help Germans to blur pictures of their properties in mapping services like Google Street View.  The service has been made necessary …
More: BetaNews and 9to5Google
Audrey Watters / Hack Education:
Education, Technology “Journalism,” and the Apple PR Machine  —  I wasn't planning to write anything about Apple's media event yesterday.  I tuned in to the livestream, but when all the announcements were made, it seemed clear to me that nothing that was revealed on stage in San Jose was that significant to education.
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
HP outs pricing on full Windows 8 PC lineup  —  A huge wave of Windows 8 PCs is coming, and HP is hoping to ride it to victory.  Early on Wednesday, the company announced pricing and availability for its complete Windows 8 PC portfolio, which includes a broad range of notebooks …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple wins preliminary ruling from U.S. ITC that Samsung violates 4 design and touch patents  —  Apple has won a preliminary ruling against Samsung in an ITC case that had begun last year, reports Bloomberg.  The ruling states that Samsung has violated four Apple patents related to iPhone design …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Game on!  Vox launches long-awaited video game site, Polygon  —  Vox Media has shaken up sports and tech news withs its unique blend of cutting-edge publishing tools and high-profile hires.  Now, we're about to find out if it can pull off the same trick with gaming news.
More: Polygon, AllThingsD, Forbes and The Verge.  Tweets: @antderosa
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Sprint 4G LTE may not show up in NY, SF until March  —  There could potentially be a long wait for Sprint customers looking to tap into the faster 4G LTE network.  —  Sprint Nextel's super-fast 4G LTE network could show up to major markets such as New York and San Francisco as late as March, CNET has learned.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google on Track for Another Record High: Lobbying Expenses  —  Google this week disclosed it spent $4.18 million on U.S. lobbying in the third quarter of 2012, bringing the company to $13.13 million spent this year — a record.  —  That makes Google the seventh-biggest lobbying spender out there …
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Sprint announces new no-contract data plans for LTE tablets  —  Just a day after Apple announced it would be bringing the iPad and iPad mini to Sprint, the carrier has announced a new set of data plans that it says will offer customers 20 percent more data that its US competitors for the same pricing.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
All code on Raspberry Pi's ARM chip now open source  —  The makers of the Raspberry Pi credit card-sized computer today announced every last piece of code running on the computer's ARM chip has been open sourced.  While the computer could already run several Linux-based operating systems, not all the drivers were open source.

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Axios:
Sources: Paramount seeks a business-side counterpart to Bari Weiss, implying she would oversee editorial across CBS News and CNN if Paramount's WBD deal closes

Peter Chapman / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA launches a probe into Paramount's $110B acquisition of WBD, and sets an initial ruling deadline on August 7; the EU has already set a July 7 deadline

Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie becomes the first release of 2026 to cross $1B in global grosses; Michael Jackson biopic Michael is on the verge of crossing $900M

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