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October 31, 2012, 3:25 PM

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

The iPad Mini — “Wow, it feels like a Kindle.” — “Ew, the screen is terrible.” — That was my wife's initial reaction when I handed her the iPad Mini to see what she, an avid daily user of an iPad 3, thought. Her initial reaction matched mine exactly, and perfectly encapsulates the experience.

More: SplatF, parislemon, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @panzer

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

iPad mini review — Apple takes on a new market with a smaller tablet — The iPad mini has arrived — and so has our review. Just last week, Apple introduced the world to the newest member of its wildly successful tablet line, an adorable, diminutive slate with a 7.9-inch display.

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple removing delivery dates for LTE iPad mini preorders

More: The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog and iPhone Hacks

Scott Stein / CNET:

iPad Mini review: The perfect size, but at a price

More: PadGadget, Telegraph, Guardian, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo UK, dailywireless.org and PhoneArena

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

iPad review (late 2012)

More: The Verge, USA Today, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks and Gotta Be Mobile

Eva Dou / Digits:

Asustek: Nexus 7 Sales Approaching 1 million a Month — Sales of Google Inc. 's Nexus 7, made by Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. , are closing in on 1 million units a month, the Taiwanese maker revealed. — The 7-inch tablet has created a big buzz this year with its low starting price of US$199 …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Microsoft sued for infringing patent on Live Tiles — The trolls rise to the Surface — Microsoft's been touting its Live Tiles concept ever since Windows Phone 7 launched two years ago, but the launch of Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and particularly the Surface tablets appear to have given …

More: Ars Technica, InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, The Register, BetaNews, The Next Web, CNET, WebProNews, MobileBurn.com and HotHardware.com News

Satya Nadella / TechNet Blogs:

Reimagining the “Other” Windows

More: InfoWorld, Seattle Times, Mashable! and Microsoft. Thanks:@theromit

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Azure Mobile Services Now Supports Windows Phone 8, Microsoft Announces Azure Store

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat and MongoDB Hosting

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Right on Cue: Can iTunes chief fix Apple's maps and Siri? — An executive shuffle has dropped two troubled services into the hands of Eddy Cue. CNET has a behind-the-scenes look at Apple's master negotiator and product resuscitator. — Few consumers know his name, but Eddy Cue …

More: MacRumors, Business Insider, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @pkafka

Eric Savitz / Forbes:

Apple Slides As Investors React to Management Shake-Up

More: VentureBeat, CNET, Business Insider, AllThingsD, BGR, iPhone Hacks, Bloomberg, iDownloadBlog.com and CNET

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Uber Kills Surge Pricing In NYC For Customers, Drivers Paid 2X Rate To Meet Post-Sandy Demand — With the subway system down for the count in the wake of mega-storm Sandy, it's very, very tough to get around New York City today. And this morning, people who opened up their Uber apps to hail …

More: Betabeat and Free Press. Thanks:@jordanrcrook

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Foursquare's Dennis Crowley Talks About Hurricane Sandy's Impact on NYC Start-Ups (Video)

More: GigaOM, Business Insider, The Register, Venture Capital Dispatch and BGR

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Councilman Pushes For Charges Against Twitter User Who Spread Falsehoods

More: Media Decoder, New York Times, BuzzFeed and Betabeat. Tweets: @mikeriggs. See also Mediagazer

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Hurricane Sandy, @ComfortablySmug, and The Flood of Social Media Misinformation

More: BuzzFeed FWD, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, CNET, PandoDaily, BuzzFeed, Reuters, The Verge and Mashable!. See also Mediagazer

Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:

Intel working on 48-core chip for smartphones, tablets — A smartphone with 48 cores could change our concept of what it is and what it does — Intel researchers are working on a 48-core processor for smartphones and tablets but it could be five to 10 years before it hits the market.

More: CNET, Forbes, Daring Fireball, VentureBeat, TechSpot, FierceMobileIT News, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, TechEye, T3 News, Pocket-lint, Slashdot and Engadget

Mark Milian / Bloomberg:

Wal-Mart to Sell Boxee TVs Challenging Apple and Roku — In a coup for New York-based startup Boxee Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) will sell and promote its new Web-connected device that brings live television and online video together, the companies said.

More: Engadget, GigaOM, GadgeTell, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, CNET, SlashGear, I4U News, Lucas Gonze's blog and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

More on Fusion Drive: How it works, and how to roll your own — It's not Intel SRT, it's not file-based, and it works on OS X right now. — Two blog posts by Tumblr user Jollyjinx have shed some more light on the inner workings of Apple's Fusion Drive. Announced last week at Apple's event …

More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, jollyjinx, App Advice, MacRumors, TUAW and ZDNet

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

Facebook tests Timeline layout with single column of posts — Facebook is testing a new format for user Timelines, which puts all posts in a single column on the left and any activity modules in a narrower column on the right. — This layout addresses one of the common complaints about the new profile …

More: The Next Web, AllFacebook and WebProNews

Phil Coakley / The Official Google Blog:

AMBER Alerts for missing children now in Google Search and Maps — Today we are launching AMBER Alerts coordinated by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the Google Public Alerts platform. Public Alerts are designed to bring you emergency alerts when and where they're relevant …

More: Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, BetaNews, The Next Web, CNET, TechCrunch, Mashable! and WebProNews

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Samsung gets official with the Galaxy Premier: 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED, 8MP camera, GS III styling — If Samsung took a wrong turn with its brand-diluting Galaxy S III Mini, then the much-leaked Galaxy Premier is where it gets back on track. The phone keeps the outward visage of the Galaxy S III …

More: BGR, BetaNews, CNET, Sammy Hub, 9to5Google, GadgeTell, VentureBeat, The Verge, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, Android News, Rumours … and IntoMobile

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Marissa Mayer Makes a Media Deal — The Marissa Mayer messaging is that Yahoo's new CEO is about product, not media. But that doesn't mean she's shutting down everything her predecessor Ross Levinsohn was working on. — Example: Yahoo has struck a deal with Wenner Media …

More: The Next Web and Yahoo! Inc.. See also Mediagazer

Dave Lee / BBC:

Kickstarter crowdfunding website launches in the UK — The Kickstarter site lists projects that are seeking financial backing — Crowdsourced funding website Kickstarter has launched in the UK. — The site, on which users seek money for creative or product-based ideas …

More: The Next Web, Forbes, CNET, TechCrunch, The Register, The Verge, ZDNet, SlashGear, Mashable! and Inquirer

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Facebook Shares Drop 5 Percent As Employee Lockup Expires — At market opening today, Facebook took another hit, with shares trading at 20.94, 5.02 percent below Friday's level, the last day trades were made since Hurricane Sandy barreled over the East Coast.

More: DailyFinance.com, AllThingsD, Reuters, Mercury News, NYT Bits, VentureBeat, Mashable!, Forbes, Business Insider and Bloomberg

Jeremy Kirk / ITworld.com:

Irked by cyberspying, Georgia outs Russia-based hacker — with photos — In an unprecedented move, Georgia reveals startling details of a hacker it says is stealing its confidential information — In one of the photos, the dark-haired, bearded hacker is peering into his computer's screen, perhaps puzzled at what's happening.

More: The Register

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Direct deals platform isocket raises $8m from Foundry Group and others, hires ex-Yahoo exec as CFO — isocket, a company focused on the concept of programmatic direct transactions of online advertising, is announcing that it received $8 million from the Foundry Group for its Series A round.

More: PandoDaily, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and VC Adventure

Eliza Kern / GigaOM:

Say hello to another video app: Threadlife wants to give you three seconds of fame — In launching a new social video startup, Zappos founder Nick Swinmurn and Blitz co-founder Ken Martin know they're jumping into a crowded space that hasn't exactly taken off yet.

More: CNET, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and MarketWatch

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Dave McClure's 500 Startups Chooses 33 Companies For Its Fifth Accelerator Batch, Bets Big On International — Dave McClure's 500 Startups has just announced the newest batch of companies to be accepted for its fifth accelerator class. This group is the first through which 500 Startups used …

More: PandoDaily, The Next Web, GigaOM, The Next Web, 500 Startups and Xconomy

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