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October 26, 2012, 10:10 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, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, InvestorPlace, iPhone in Canada Blog, 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: TUAW and Pocketables

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: Engadget, CNET, The Verge, Business Insider, 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: BriefMobile, Life On My Mobile, The Verge, Mashable!, PetaPixel, Android News, Rumours …, GigaOM, Techie Buzz, WebProNews, UnleashThePhones, MobileSyrup.com, Phones Review, 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 — It's not unusual to see top-level Googlers vacationing in some really cool places. It's also not unusual to see them taking pictures with unannounced devices. — So here's Google senior VP of engineering Vic Gundotra …

More: Wired, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, Engadget, Google+, TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, Droid Life, GSMArena Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, Android News, Rumours …, Mashable!, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup.com, 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: Mercury News, AllThingsD, GeekWire, CNET, Corporate Intelligence 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, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Royal Pingdom, SiliconANGLE, Techie Buzz, CNET and Neowin

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

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

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Wall Street Journal:

Citi Analyst Fired After Facebook Disclosure

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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, MacNN, SlashGear, Softpedia News and Engadget

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: Engadget, BetaNews, 9to5Google, Google LatLong and WebProNews

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

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: 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

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Update: Facebook Plans To Build Out Pinterest-Style Collections Feature For Web And Mobile — No so Pinteresting after all. Facebook began testing Collections on October 8th. But today I found that photos users collected had disappeared and so had posts with Collect or Want buttons .

More: internetretailer.com, Inside Facebook, VatorNews, digitaltrends.com, Business Insider, VatorNews and SeekingAlpha.com

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, The Verge, PandoDaily, Gov 2.0 and Betabeat

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

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

New Megaupload To Launch On Police Raid Anniversary — With 50 million visitors per day at its peak, Megaupload was one of the largest websites on the Internet. — This abruptly ended January this year when the U.S. Government took down the file-hosting service and had several key employees arrested including founder Kim Dotcom.

More: BGR, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, digitaltrends.com, Inquirer and Softpedia News. Tweets: @kimdotcom

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

Daniel Carty / CBS News:

Paul Ceglia, who sued Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for half the company, arrested on charges he forged records — A New York entrepreneur suing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for a 50 percent ownership stake in the social media giant was arrested Friday on charges that he falsified records …

More: Business Insider, CNET, The United States Department …, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, Forbes and Betabeat. Tweets: @cnbc

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: MobileSyrup.com, TechCrunch, San Francisco Chronicle, BGR, 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, BGR, MacDailyNews, SeekingAlpha.com, 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 and iMore.com

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