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November 22, 2012, 3:55 PM

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AnandTech:

iPad mini Review — Over the last two months, Apple has updated almost all of its core product lines, with the addition of a 13" model to the Retina MacBook Pro line and new silicon for the iPad and Mac mini to go with ground up redesigns for the iPhone, iMac, iPod touch, and iPod nano.

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Samsung accuses iPad mini of patent infringement in latest legal salvo — Samsung successfully added the iPhone 5 to its newest patent battle with Apple, and today the company accused several more of Cupertino's products of infringement — including the iPad mini.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Macgasm, FOSS Patents, Inquirer, GSMArena Blog, The Tech Block, TechEye, SlashGear, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, Engadget and AppleInsider

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple-HTC license agreement would terminate automatically after change of control

More: AppleInsider, Guardian, Gizmodo, PhoneArena and iDownloadBlog.com

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Samsung's lawyers will get to see complete Apple-HTC license agreement including fees

More: BBC, Reuters, TechSpot, digitaltrends.com, AppleInsider, The Verge, VentureBeat, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Examiner, AllThingsD and Mac Weekend

Erica Orden / Wall Street Journal:

DreamWorks Releases Software Used in ‘Guardians’ — DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., after spending years developing specialized software used to make one of its most expensive movies ever, is giving it away free to competitors. — The studio released onto the open market one of the primary tools used …

More: PandoDaily and The Verge

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Yahoo's Ad Sell-Through Rate on its Log-in Page Has Plummeted — A Huge Display Unit to Appeal to Brand Advertisers — One of Yahoo's prime pieces of ad real estate has been awfully ad-free of late, according to a report from financial research firm Macquarie Equities Research.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @timcohn

Staska / Unwired View:

Microsoft has its own Project Glass - augmented reality glasses/wearable computer combo — Microsoft has it's own Project Glass cooking in the R&D labs. — It's an augmented reality glasses/heads-up display, that should supply you with various bits of trivia while you are watching a live event, e.g. baseball game.

More: BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Engadget, SlashGear, Geek.com and Softpedia News. Thanks:@uvstaska

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Apple's Big Problem: Google Is Getting Better At Design Faster Than Apple Is Getting Better At The Internet — Apple's biggest problem is that Google is getting better at what it does poorly faster than Apple is getting better at what it does poorly, says Patrick Gibson in a blog post.

More: ZDNet, Patrick B. Gibson, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Mac Weekend, Business Insider and dailylicious!

Tweets: @jeffiel and @mjasay

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

The Red Flags That Were Obvious — To Some — In the HP-Autonomy Deal — The one big, glaring question that will probably never be fully answered in the still-developing HP-Autonomy scandal is this: If buying Autonomy has so obviously turned out to be a bad deal 15 months after it was first announced …

More: breakingviews.com, Bronte Capital, PandoDaily, DealBook, CNBC, TechEye and DealBook

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

H.P.'s Misstep Shows the Risk in Big Ideas

More: Forbes, blog.chron.com and DealBook. Tweets: @cisco_mobile

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Oracle's Ellison Vindicated in Autonomy PR Flap by HP's $8.8 Billion Writedown

More: Quartz

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows, despite an estimated 50% of testers using it — Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg last Friday quietly posted a thread over on the Google Groups mozilla.dev.planning discussion board titled “Turning off win64 builds.”

More: Engadget, CNET, TechSpot, DailyTech, bit-tech.net, Neowin and Web Browser

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop — Very soon in the United States, letters will be sent out to Internet account holders informing them that they should stop sharing copyrighted material on BitTorrent. — The message in the US from mainstream rightsholders …

More: TechCrunch, Inquirer, ZDNet, TechEye, BGR and Softpedia News

youtube-global.blogspot.ca:

Just for U: YouTube arrives on Wii U — The new YouTube app for Nintendo Wii U brings the YouTube videos and channels you love to your living room, and with the Wii U GamePad you can quickly search for great videos to watch. From the new Super Mario Bros to music videos …

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, TechCrunch, SlashGear and 9to5Google

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Following Netflix and Hulu, Amazon brings over 140,000 movies and TV episodes to the Nintendo Wii U

More: The Verge, Amazon.com, Mashable! and Hulu Blog

Reuters:

Hard drive maker OCZ says facing SEC probe — OCZ Technology Group Inc said it is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and it received a subpoena requesting certain documents and information related to its Sep. 5 and Oct. 10 announcements.

More: Market Wire, X-bit labs, Bloomberg and Tech Trader Daily

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IBM: Thanksgiving Sales Data Shows Mobile Commerce Jumping, iPhone/iPad Driving 19% Of Traffic, Social Nets Only 0.2% — ComScore yesterday predicted that e-commerce sales would jump by 14% this holiday season compared to last year, to $42 billion, and some numbers just out from IBM's Benchmark service …

More: 9to5Mac

Rick Falkvinge / Falkvinge on Infopolicy:

European Parliament Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet — Infopolicy: Today, the European Parliament passed a resolution that condemns the upcoming attempt from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to assert control over the Internet, and instructed its 27 Member States to act accordingly.

More: BBC and TechEye

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Skobbler Launches Hybrid Online/Offline Maps App For Android As Showcase For What Its OpenStreetMaps-Powered Map Engine Can Do — You'd think the last thing mobile users need right now is another digital mapping service — what with Google, Apple and Nokia all duking it out …

More: Tech Europe, PandoDaily and VentureBeat

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