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October 28, 2012, 10:20 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.

More: GeekWire, The Verge, TechCrunch, CNET, AllThingsD and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @gsterling, @rblevin, @chrispirillo, @jeffblagdon and @dannysullivan

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Amazon Says Kindle Withstood iPad Mini Assault

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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.

More: PC Magazine, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, iClarified, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Macgasm, Mashable!, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Quick Online Tips, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Network World and The Next Web

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.

More: Betabeat, The Next Web, BetaNews and Mashable!. Tweets: @mikeisaac

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 …

More: PC Magazine, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Hurricane Sandy Causes Google To Cancel Its Android Event

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything — On Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that pits a major textbook publisher against Supap Kirtsaeng, a student-entrepreneur who built a small business importing and selling textbooks.

More: Forbes. Tweets: @michael_pokocky and @jtron9k

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.

More: PC Magazine, NYT Bits, Engadget, Mashable!, CNET and VentureBeat

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.

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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

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.

More: The Next Web and Examiner

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

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)

More: TechSpot and Smart News. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: AppleInsider, Fortune and 9to5Mac

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