Techmeme: Samsung feels the power as Galaxy Note 2 lifts off (Roger Cheng/CNET)

October 28, 2012, 10:40 PM

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Amazon goes on the offensive. Mocks Apple and compares Kindle Fire HD to iPad Mini on its homepage. — It has only been a few days since Apple announced its new iPad mini tablet device and Amazon has decided to put a damper on the iPad mini's introduction to the world.

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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Amazon Says Kindle Withstood iPad Mini Assault

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Thomas Ricker / The Verge:

Steve Jobs's yacht makes its first appearance (video) — Christened “Venus” after the Roman goddess of love and beauty — Steve Jobs's yacht is making what looks to be its first public appearance in the Dutch city of Aalsmeer, a bit more than one year after his death.

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Stormy Weather: D: Dive Into Mobile Postponed Due to Hurricane Sandy — It is with great regret that we have to announce that, due to Hurricane Sandy, we are postponing our D: Dive Into Mobile conference, which had been set for tomorrow and Tuesday in New York City.

More: Betabeat, The Next Web, BetaNews and Mashable!. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Facebook Gift Event Also Gets Blown Out of NYC by Hurricane Sandy — And the hits — and not happy ones — keep on coming with the imminent approach of Hurricane Sandy to New York City. — Along with cancellation of tomorrow's Google Android product event and postponement of our latest …

More: PC Magazine and VentureBeat

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Hurricane Sandy Causes Google To Cancel Its Android Event

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything — On Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that pits a major textbook publisher against Supap Kirtsaeng, a student-entrepreneur who built a small business importing and selling textbooks.

More: Forbes. Tweets: @michael_pokocky and @jtron9k

John Timmer / Ars Technica:

IBM prepares for end of process shrinks with carbon nanotube transistors — Carbon nanotubes sit on top of features etched in silicon. — IBM Research — The shrinking size of features on modern processors is slowly approaching a limit where the wiring on chips will only be a few atoms across.

More: PC Magazine, NYT Bits, Engadget, Mashable!, CNET and VentureBeat

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Steven Sinofsky on How Windows 8 PCs Deliver Better Value Than Apple — With Windows 8, Steven Sinofsky said that Microsoft and its PC-making partners have found a way to deliver modern computing at a price far less than that fruit-named competitor. — He notes that there are full-featured Windows 8 laptops that sell for $279.

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

Samsung feels the power as Galaxy Note 2 lifts off — The company tells CNET that sales of its flagship Galaxy S III actually rose following the unveiling of the iPhone 5, the latest illustration of its run to the top. — Even Apple's iPhone 5 couldn't slow Samsung Electronics down.

More: The Next Web and Examiner

Laura June / The Verge:

Why is an ebook ever riddled with typos? — Titles on Kindle, iBooks, and similar services have a dirty littlc sccrct — Maybe you've already heard this, but I recently got a Kindle Paperwhite, my first e-reader. This was a big deal for me, and a decision which involved a lot of hand-wringing.

More: Forbes

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

U.S. looks to replace human surveillance with computers — Security cameras that watch you, and predict what you'll do next, sound like science fiction. But a team from Carnegie Mellon University says their computerized surveillance software will be capable of “eventually predicting” what you're going to do.

More: The Verge and Gizmodo

Kellex / Droid Life:

32GB Nexus 7 Goes on Display at Office Depot for $249, 16GB Drops to $199 — Not that we weren't fully expecting this to happen, but in case you needed one last ounce of proof that the 32GB Nexus 7 was arriving for $249 and the 16GB version was dropping to $199, we have it for you.

More: BetaNews, CNET and Talk Android

Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:

Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense — And that's something of a challenge for the collaborative encyclopedia going forward — Nearing completion? Gaudí's Sagrada Familia and ... Wikipedia? (Wikimedia Commons)

More: TechSpot and Smart News. See also Mediagazer

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Déjà vu: Google employee loses prototype Nexus 4 at San Francisco bar — In 2010 a prototype of Apple's iPhone 4 was left at a San Francisco bar, which led to it leaking across the internet months before its official debut — and it appears the same almost happened with the much-anticipated new Nexus device from LG.

More: Mashable!, CNET and Wired

Evan Hansen / Wired:

Drinking Establishment (Check). Highly Anticipated Mobile Phone Release (Check). Lost Phone (Check)

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