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October 27, 2012, 5:55 PM

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Evan Hansen / Wired:

Drinking Establishment (Check). Highly Anticipated Mobile Phone Release (Check). Lost Phone (Check) — Jamin Barton is a soft-spoken musician with a quick laugh and a winning smile who tends bar under the nickname “Sudsy” at the 500 Club in San Francisco's Mission District.

More: Examiner, PC Magazine, The Next Web, CNET, Business Insider, Pocketnow, Android News, Rumours …, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Macgasm, UnleashThePhones and Gizmodo

Tweets: @mat, @wired and @mikeelgan

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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! and CNET

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Hurricane Sandy Causes Google To Cancel Its Android Event — Google's big Android event on Monday in New York City was supposed to be the rain on the parade of Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event happening on the same day in San Francisco. But Google's event is literally being washed out …

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

An alternate universe — On the way to the Apple Store today to buy AppleCare+ for my wife's new iPhone 5, we passed the new Microsoft Store, coincidentally in the middle of their Surface with Windows RT launch. (That is actually the product's name. “Surface with Windows RT”.)

More: CNET, mosspuppet.tv, CNET, Brent Ozar, LAPTOP Magazine, John Moltz, Joel Housman, Chicago Sun Times, GeekWire and Forbes

Tweets: @felixsalmon, @manan, @dannysullivan and @viticci

Shira Ovide / Digits:

Windows 8 Day One: Steady, Not Spectacular, Store Traffic

More: PC Magazine, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, Mercury News, GeekWire, Corporate Intelligence, Microsoft, CNET, InformationWeek and Ars Technica

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Amazon Says Kindle Withstood iPad Mini Assault — With a starting price tag of $329, Apple's new iPad mini may indeed be too expensive to attract budget-conscious consumers. — In response to a question about how Kindle sales were faring following Apple's iPad mini announcement on Tuesday …

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, Business Insider and Gizmodo

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Facebook Investigating How Bulgarian Man Bought 1.1 Million Users' Email Addresses For Five Dollars — Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist Bogomil Shopov — Updated with a more recent comment from Facebook below. — It's no secret that Facebook treats your personal data as a commodity.

More: VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, Fox News, ReadWrite, TechSpot, Mashable!, digitaltrends.com, Search Engine Watch, nbcnews.com, MOTHERBOARD and Gizmodo

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

THE SILICON ALLEY 100: The Coolest People In New York Tech This Year — In the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. And while it hasn't had any LinkedIn or Facebook-size exits, it has produced a few IPOs and near-billion-dollar acquisitions.

Tina Amini / Kotaku:

Apple's Game Center Seems to be Malfunctioning Today. Blame Letterpress? — Game Center is really acting up today. — iOS players have been taking to Twitter to voice concerns about Game Center breaking when attempting to play games, specifically Letterpress. — Letterpress is a fairly new word game for iOS devices.

More: rant-dom and Laughing Squid. Tweets: @lorenb

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Evernote Teases Major 5.0 Redesign of Mac App — “Remember Everything” platform Evernote has today announced the next version of their Mac client: Evernote 5. With an extensive preview on Evernote's website, the company has revealed some of the features and design choices behind the complete redesign of the desktop app.

More: Softpedia News, AppleInsider, Evernote Blogcast, SlashGear, TUAW and 9to5Mac

9to5Mac:

iPad minis with LTE start arriving on Black Friday (Nov. 23) for standard, Nov. 21 for expedited — It appears those who ordered the LTE iPad minis late last night in the U.S. will start receiving theirs about Nov. 23, according to what we heard from a number of early buyers.

More: I4U News, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, iLounge, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors and TechCrunch. Tweets: @marcoarment

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Amazon Web Services Outage Caused By Memory Leak And Failure In Monitoring Alarm — A memory leak and a failed monitoring system caused the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday that took out Reddit and other major services. — According to a post Friday night, AWS explained that the problem arose …

More: Amazon Web Services and Data Center Knowledge

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

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