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Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
iPad mini review  —  Apple takes on a new market with a smaller tablet  —  The iPad mini has arrived — and so has our review.  Just last week, Apple introduced the world to the newest member of its wildly successful tablet line, an adorable, diminutive slate with a 7.9-inch display.
Scott Stein / CNET:
iPad Mini review: The perfect size, but at a price  —  The good: The iPad Mini's ultra-thin and light design is far more intimate and booklike than the larger iPad, and its cameras, storage capacities, optional LTE antenna, and general functionality offer a full iPad experience.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The iPad Mini  —  “Wow, it feels like a Kindle.”  —  “Ew, the screen is terrible.”  —  That was my wife's initial reaction when I handed her the iPad Mini to see what she, an avid daily user of an iPad 3, thought.  Her initial reaction matched mine exactly, and perfectly encapsulates the experience.
More: The Next Web and SlashGear.  Tweets: @panzer
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
iPad review (late 2012)  —  Welcome to the new new iPad, same as the old new iPad.  Well, mostly, anyway.  It was less than eight months ago that Apple grafted a Retina display onto its world-conquering tablet, giving every other slate on the market resolution envy, while enchanting gadget lovers …
More: The Verge and SlashGear
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Massive Flooding Damages Several NYC Data Centers  —  Flooding from Hurricane Sandy has hobbled two data center buildings in Lower Manhattan, taking out diesel fuel pumps used to refuel generators.A third building at 121 Varick is also reported to be without power.
Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
Hurricane Sandy, @ComfortablySmug, and The Flood of Social Media Misinformation
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Microsoft: Four Million Windows 8 Installs Down, 396 Million More to Go  —  Back in September, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made an ambitious prediction: “One year from now — between Windows phones, Windows tablets and Windows PCs — we'll see close to ... 400 million new devices running those new operating systems.”
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Delays iTunes Refresh  —  Apple surprised lots of people yesterday.  Here's a smaller bit of unexpected news: The company is delaying the update of its iTunes software.  —  Back in September, Apple said an iTunes overhaul would be out in October.  Now it's pushing that back a month.
Kenneth Bongort / The Official Google Blog:
Google's most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS  —  When you have a question, finding the answer should be effortless—wherever you are and whatever device you're using.  The new Google Search app for iPhone and iPad helps you to do just that with enhanced voice search that answers …
Eva Dou / Digits:
Asustek: Nexus 7 Sales Approaching 1 million a Month  —  Sales of Google Inc. 's Nexus 7, made by Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. , are closing in on 1 million units a month, the Taiwanese maker revealed.  —  The 7-inch tablet has created a big buzz this year with its low starting price of US$199 …
Phil Sharp / Gmail Blog:
Introducing the new compose in Gmail  —  We're always trying to make Gmail faster and easier to use, so today we're introducing a completely redesigned compose and reply experience that does just that.  —  Faster  —  How many times have you been writing an email and had to reference something in another message?
Matt Drance / Apple Outsider:
Regime Change  —  Apple cannot afford to get too big or too disorganized.  That's my takeaway from yesterday's shocker that not only is Scott Forstall out at Apple, but also that his fiefdom is being split between Craig Federighi, Eddy Cue, and Jony Ive.  We learned a lot about Tim Cook yesterday.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Bob Iger Says Disney Will Focus On Mobile And Social (Not Console) Star Wars Games  —  The big emphasis during Disney's conference call discussing its acquisition of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion was, not surprisingly, the enormous earnings potential of the Star Wars franchise.
Griffin McElroy / Polygon:
Disney purchases Lucasfilm in $4 billion acquisition deal, includes LucasArts
Natalie Huet / Reuters:
Acer delays Windows RT tablets after Microsoft moves into market  —  (Reuters) - Taiwanese computer maker Acer is putting off the launch of tablets using Microsoft's new Windows RT operating system to give itself time to see how Microsoft's own Surface tablet fares.
Christina Bonnington / Wired:
The Tech Behind Apple's Impossibly Thin New iMacs  —  The 27-inch iMac is only 5mm thick at its edges.  Photo: John Bradley/Wired  —  We know Apple has a love affair with thin.  The iPhone 5 is the thinnest iPhone ever.  The MacBook Air could very well be used to slice bread.
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Apple iMessage down on iOS and OS X for the second time in a week (update)  —  Apple's having some issues with iMessage, again — for the second time in the last week, users are experiencing difficulties sending and receiving messages on both iOS devices and Macs running OS X. Symptoms appear …

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