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October 28, 2012, 5:45 PM

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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 …
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.
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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.
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.
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”.)
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.
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
The 16GB black iPad mini joins every white SKU in selling out its pre-order stock  —  Four out to the six available iPad mini SKUs are sold out on the Apple online store, having their shipping date pushed back several weeks.  It appears that today the 16 gigabyte, black-color iPad mini sold through …
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.
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.
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)

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