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November 22, 2012, 6:35 PM

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iPad mini Review — Over the last two months, Apple has updated almost all of its core product lines, with the addition of a 13" model to the Retina MacBook Pro line and new silicon for the iPad and Mac mini to go with ground up redesigns for the iPhone, iMac, iPod touch, and iPod nano.

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Yahoo's Ad Sell-Through Rate on its Log-in Page Has Plummeted — A Huge Display Unit to Appeal to Brand Advertisers — One of Yahoo's prime pieces of ad real estate has been awfully ad-free of late, according to a report from financial research firm Macquarie Equities Research.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @timcohn

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Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women — RIYADH — Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements.

More: rt.com. Tweets: @eric_andersen

Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:

DreamWorks Releases Software Used in ‘Guardians’ — DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., after spending years developing specialized software used to make one of its most expensive movies ever, is giving it away free to competitors. — The studio released onto the open market one of the primary tools used …

More: PandoDaily and The Verge

Staska / Unwired View:

Microsoft has its own Project Glass - augmented reality glasses/wearable computer combo — Microsoft has it's own Project Glass cooking in the R&D labs. — It's an augmented reality glasses/heads-up display, that should supply you with various bits of trivia while you are watching a live event, e.g. baseball game.

More: TechCrunch, Neowin, BuzzFeed, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Geek.com, Engadget and Softpedia News. Thanks:@uvstaska

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Apple's Big Problem: Google Is Getting Better At Design Faster Than Apple Is Getting Better At The Internet — Apple's biggest problem is that Google is getting better at what it does poorly faster than Apple is getting better at what it does poorly, says Patrick Gibson in a blog post.

More: Patrick B. Gibson, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Mac Weekend, Business Insider and dailylicious!

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Samsung accuses iPad mini of patent infringement in latest legal salvo — Samsung successfully added the iPhone 5 to its newest patent battle with Apple, and today the company accused several more of Cupertino's products of infringement — including the iPad mini.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Macgasm, Inquirer, The Register, FOSS Patents, The Tech Block, SlashGear, TechEye, GSMArena Blog, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, Engadget and AppleInsider

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple-HTC license agreement would terminate automatically after change of control

More: BBC, Reuters, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Guardian, digitaltrends.com, CNET, TechCrunch and FOSS Patents

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple's international Black Friday sale goes live $100 off MacBook Air/Pros, savings on iPads and iPods — Update: Apple Store down in many countries, Black Friday sales about to hit UK, Finland, France, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands... Apple's Black Friday deals are now officially live …

More: The Register, Neowin, The Verge, GSMArena Blog, The Verge, ABCNEWS and Softpedia News. Thanks:@jakeosmith

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows, despite an estimated 50% of testers using it — Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg last Friday quietly posted a thread over on the Google Groups mozilla.dev.planning discussion board titled “Turning off win64 builds.”

More: Engadget, CNET, bit-tech.net, TechSpot, DailyTech, Web Browser and Neowin

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Windows 8 store adds 7,000 apps in two weeks to pass 20,000 mark, almost 18,000 are free — The Windows Store in Windows 8 has passed 20,000 apps. It's not clear exactly when it happened, but Win App Update, which keeps track of the totals, posted on Thursday that the milestone was likely reached on Tuesday.

More: WinBeta and Neowin

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IBM: Thanksgiving Sales Data Shows Mobile Commerce Jumping, iPhone/iPad Driving 19% Of Traffic, Social Nets Only 0.2% — ComScore yesterday predicted that e-commerce sales would jump by 14% this holiday season compared to last year, to $42 billion, and some numbers just out from IBM's Benchmark service …

More: PhoneArena and NYConvergence.com

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Skobbler Launches Hybrid Online/Offline Maps App For Android As Showcase For What Its OpenStreetMaps-Powered Map Engine Can Do — You'd think the last thing mobile users need right now is another digital mapping service — what with Google, Apple and Nokia all duking it out …

More: iMore.com, Tech Europe, PandoDaily and VentureBeat

Allison Hoffman / Tablet Magazine:

Meet the Young Soldiers Who Pushed the IDF's Social Media Strategy — Young Israeli soldiers have pushed older commanders into adopting a more aggressive social media strategy After the first night of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, now almost a week ago, a photograph began circulating around Twitter …

More: Gizmodo

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

H.P.'s Misstep Shows the Risk in Big Ideas — When Hewlett-Packard spent roughly $10 billion on the software company Autonomy, it thought it was buying a slice of the future — investing in the hot trend of big data. But the deal turned out to be a debacle, and not only because H.P. wrote down $5 billion of the purchase.

More: Forbes, blog.chron.com and DealBook. Tweets: @cisco_mobile

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

The Red Flags That Were Obvious — To Some — In the HP-Autonomy Deal

More: Reuters Breakingviews, Bronte Capital, DealBook, PandoDaily, CNBC, AllThingsD, DealBook and TechEye

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