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October 26, 2012, 11:50 PM

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Harry McCracken / Techland:

Apple's Phil Schiller on the State of the Mac — Phil Schiller walks through Apple's Mac portable lineup at the company's press event in San Jose, California on October 23, 2012 — With Tuesday's unveiling of the iPad Mini and a fourth-generation full-sized iPad, this has been a major week for the iPad.

More: TUAW, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, InvestorPlace, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, MacNN, The Verge and iClarified. Thanks:@mariedomingo

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Phil Schiller Claims Customers Aren't Asking for Built-In Blu-Ray Anymore — Apple customers are no longer asking for Blu-ray drives in their Macs these days, according to Apple marketing head Phil Schiller. This is perhaps unsurprising given Apple's trend toward removing optical drives …

More: Pocketables and TUAW

Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:

Google Is Testing Same-Day Delivery for Shoppers — Google is now in the same-day delivery business. In San Francisco, some people affiliated with Google can buy a product, using their phones or computers, and have it delivered to their homes in a matter of hours, using a new service operated by Google.

More: CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Google and SeekingAlpha.com

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Google Nexus 10 leaks: Android 4.2, Exynos 5250 (1.7GHz), 2,560 x 1,600 resolution — Unless we're looking at one of the most elaborately photographed fakes in the world, this is the Nexus 10. With the Nexus 7 apparently going over quite well at just $199, it was only ever a matter …

More: Examiner, BriefMobile, Mashable!, The Verge, PetaPixel, Android News, Rumours …, GigaOM, Techie Buzz, WebProNews, UnleashThePhones, Life On My Mobile, MobileSyrup.com, Phones Review, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Gizmodo

Phil Nickinson / Android Central:

Google's Vic Gundotra is posting pics with the Nexus 10 tablet

More: Wired, Google+, SlashGear, Engadget, Gizmodo, Droid Life, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, GSMArena Blog, 9to5Google, Android News, Rumours …, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable!, The Verge and 9to5Google

Shira Ovide / Digits:

Windows 8 Day One: Steady, Not Spectacular, Store Traffic — Microsoft and its allies need to generate excitement for the Surface tablets and other computers running the company's dramatically revamped Windows 8 operating system. Nothing builds buzz like long lines, of course, and on that score …

More: AllThingsD, Mercury News, Corporate Intelligence, CNET, GeekWire and InformationWeek

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Gentlemen, start your benches: Measuring Windows 8's performance — For a couple of decades, it seemed like every time a new version of Windows was released, its hardware requirements would keep pace with hardware advancement, necessitating sometimes-costly hardware upgrades if you wanted to stay up on the latest software.

More: The Register, GeekWire, Royal Pingdom, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Techie Buzz and CNET

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

People Behind Uber Want to Do the Same Thing for Private Planes With BlackJet — BlackJet launches today a way to book seats on other people's private jets. — If it sounds like the black-car service Uber for planes, that's exactly what it is. The company comes from Uber co-founder Garrett Camp …

More: VatorNews, TechCrunch, CNET, socalTECH.com, Digits, VentureBeat and The Verge

iFixit:

Mac Mini Late 2012 Teardown — Apple is shrinking! No, not in the AAPL stock way (that's high as ever), but in the 'Let's name everything Mini' way. Along with the announcement of the iPad Mini on October 23rd (teardown coming soon; we promise) came the new and improved Mac Mini …

More: Macgasm, iClarified, MacNN, Softpedia News, SlashGear and Engadget

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Citigroup's Star Tech Analyst Mark Mahaney Fired After Leaks To TechCrunch — Mark Mahaney, a star tech analyst at Citigroup, was just fired. — He got canned because one of Mahaney's junior associates leaked information about the bank's views on the Facebook IPO to TechCrunch writers Josh Constine …

More: Quartz, CNET, Forbes, VentureBeat, DealBook, Betabeat, Deal Journal and Wired

Tweets: @alexia, @pkafka and @mhelft

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Wall Street Journal:

Citi Analyst Fired After Facebook Disclosure

More: Wall Street Journal and The Next Web. Tweets: @hblodget, @street_insider and @cnbc

Chris Welch / The Verge:

3.6 million social security numbers exposed in unprecedented South Carolina cyber attack — “This is not a good day for South Carolina.” That was Governor Nikki Haley's public reaction to news that a foreign hacker had infiltrated South Carolina's Department of Revenue and made off …

More: Computerworld, VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, WLTX-TV, Computerworld, Associated Press, This Just In, Reuters, Betabeat, governor.sc.gov, The Post and Courier, Ars Technica and Gizmodo

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

New Google Maps Basemap Now Shows Terrain, Vegetation By Default — The Google Maps basemap is getting a visual overhaul today. Unlike most updates, though, this one is for the actual maps and not just the interface. Starting today, Google Maps will show you information about terrain …

More: BetaNews, 9to5Google, Engadget, Google LatLong and The Verge

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iPhone 5 Launching in India and Other Countries on November 2 — The Economic Times reports that Apple will be launching the iPhone 5 in India on November 2, one week from today. The launch had previously been rumored for today, but the new report claims that shipping delays forced Apple to push the launch back by a week.

More: Times of India, The Sofia Globe, Romania-Insider.com, One happy family, CNET, GigaOM, Macgasm, TUAW and di-ve

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Dings “Do Not Track” Default (And Search Partner Microsoft) — In a post today on its policy blog, Yahoo took aim at Microsoft's controversial “Do Not Track” default in its Internet Explorer 10 browser. — Said Yahoo in a post titled “In Support of Personal Experience”:

More: TechNet Blogs, The Verge and WebProNews

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Introducing CrunchGov, TechCrunch's Policy Platform — Nearly a year after citizens blindsided the government with an unprecedented protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, Congress is at a loss for how to proceed. Luddite officials see complex tech issues as a mysterious minefield …

More: Boing Boing, Gov 2.0, Betabeat, The Verge and PandoDaily

Tweets: @sunlightlabs, @reckless, @cschweitz and @patrickruffini

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Tim Cook: ‘we would not make’ 7-inch tablet, iPad mini in ‘a whole different league’ — Apple CEO addresses Steve Jobs' criticism of 7-inch tablets — Those who have been paying attention to Apple over the years remembered one thing when the company revealed the iPad mini earlier this week …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, Digits, CNET, Softpedia News and MacRumors

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's hit-and-miss report: What the analysts are saying

More: Reuters, MarketBeat and Inquirer

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

HTC made just $133m in Q3, down 79 percent from last year — HTC has just announced its Q3 2012 earnings, revealing a net profit of NT$3.9 billion (roughly $133 million) from NT$70.2 billion ($2.4 billion) in revenue. In contrast, over the same period last year the company made NT$18.68 billion …

More: TechCrunch, BGR, San Francisco Chronicle, MobileSyrup.com, Android and Me, ZDNet, CNET, Electronista, The Next Web, SlashGear, Bloomberg, BBC and Reuters. Tweets: @zacharye

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

HTC Sweetens The Deal For Its Windows And One Phones With Best Deals Service In Europe

More: SlashGear, GadgeTell, digitaltrends.com, Engadget and CNET

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Initial supplies of white iPad mini run dry, now available in 2 weeks — Interestingly, Apple seems to have run out of white iPad minis. However, at the time of writing, black Minis still ship by Nov. 2. What makes this somewhat surprising is that people told us —in our totally unscientific Poll …

More: Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Macgasm, PC Magazine, TUAW, SeekingAlpha.com, BGR, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, Pocket-lint and Fortune

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple's iPad Mini, 4th Gen iPad Now Available For Pre-Order - Wi-Fi Only Versions Deliver November 2

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iMore.com and Engadget

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