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October 28, 2012, 7:35 PM

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

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:

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

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: CNET, AllThingsD and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @dannysullivan

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: iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, AndroidOS.in, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Business Insider, iClarified and Gizmodo

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

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.

More: Marketing Land, Hal's (Im)Perfect Vision, ZDNet, T3 News, iClarified, Neowin, App Advice, Engadget, Softpedia News, Digits, CITEworld, MacDailyNews, Redmond Pie and TUAW

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, Engadget, CNET, NYT Bits, Mashable! and VentureBeat

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: Examiner

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

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: Gotta Be Mobile, digitaltrends.com, Examiner, PC Magazine, The Next Web, CNET, Business Insider, Pocketnow, Android News, Rumours …, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Macgasm, Slashdot and Gizmodo

Tweets: @mikeelgan, @wired and @mat

Thanks:@redgirlsays

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Déjà vu: Google employee loses prototype Nexus 4 at San Francisco bar

More: Mashable!, CNET and Wired

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: Gizmodo

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, Joel Housman, CNET, Brent Ozar, LAPTOP Magazine, John Moltz, Chicago Sun Times, Forbes and GeekWire

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

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