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October 28, 2012, 10:40 PM
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Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Amazon goes on the offensive.  Mocks Apple and compares Kindle Fire HD to iPad Mini on its homepage.  —  It has only been a few days since Apple announced its new iPad mini tablet device and Amazon has decided to put a damper on the iPad mini's introduction to the world.
Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
Steve Jobs's yacht makes its first appearance (video)  —  Christened “Venus” after the Roman goddess of love and beauty  —  Steve Jobs's yacht is making what looks to be its first public appearance in the Dutch city of Aalsmeer, a bit more than one year after his death.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Facebook Gift Event Also Gets Blown Out of NYC by Hurricane Sandy  —  And the hits — and not happy ones — keep on coming with the imminent approach of Hurricane Sandy to New York City.  —  Along with cancellation of tomorrow's Google Android product event and postponement of our latest …
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Hurricane Sandy Causes Google To Cancel Its Android Event
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.
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.
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.
Laura June / The Verge:
Why is an ebook ever riddled with typos?  —  Titles on Kindle, iBooks, and similar services have a dirty littlc sccrct  —  Maybe you've already heard this, but I recently got a Kindle Paperwhite, my first e-reader.  This was a big deal for me, and a decision which involved a lot of hand-wringing.
More: Forbes
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.
More: The Verge and Gizmodo
Kellex / Droid Life:
32GB Nexus 7 Goes on Display at Office Depot for $249, 16GB Drops to $199  —  Not that we weren't fully expecting this to happen, but in case you needed one last ounce of proof that the 32GB Nexus 7 was arriving for $249 and the 16GB version was dropping to $199, we have it for you.
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)
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!, CNET and Wired
Evan Hansen / Wired:
Drinking Establishment (Check). Highly Anticipated Mobile Phone Release (Check). Lost Phone (Check)

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A US judge approves Paramount's settlement with 12 state AGs who tried to block its WBD deal, and Paramount tentatively sets October 6 to close the acquisition

Los Angeles Times:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that creates refundable tax credits for local news outlets based on the number of journalists they employ

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch is stepping down after 7.5 years to become the CEO and chairman of Mattel; lead independent director Mike Perlis will be interim CEO

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