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Retina iPad mini is now available, prices start at $399

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As reported on Engadget. By Mariella Moon Sure the iPad Air is thin, light and has amazing battery life, but the arrival of its smaller cousin is about to make your choice more difficult. Apple’s upgraded 8-inch slate, the Retina iPad mini, is now available, popping up in Apple’s online stores around the globe. According to an internal Apple document posted by MacRumors, while some countries are getting both WiFi and cellular models, mainland China will have to make do…

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Barnes & Noble’s Nook GlowLight is lighter, brighter, whiter, with less Simple Touch for $119

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As reported on Engadget. By Brian Heater As a ketchup bottle once famously said: Good things take time (we’re paraphrasing here, of course). Roughly a year and a half ago, Barnes & Noble made its top-notchNook Simple Touch even better with the addition of GlowLight. Before the end of the year, however, the company had been outdone by both Kobo and Amazon in that department; the two e-reader competitors launched devices with more uniform and brighter front-lighting technologies. Since then, those companies…

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Apple’s new iPad Air: hands-on with the light, thin, ultra-powerful tablet

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As reported on The Verge. By David Pierce Apple’s just announced the $499 iPad Air at its event today in San Francisco, and we’ve gotten a chance to spend a few minutes with the new device. Long story short: it looks and feels like a larger (but not that much larger) iPad mini, and that’s mostly a really good thing. It’s really beautiful, with cleaner bezels, a much thinner profile, and sharper, boxier edges. The 9.7-inch, one-pound, 7.5mm-thick…

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Microsoft cuts Surface Pro prices by a further $100, now starting at $699

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As reported on Engadget. By Matt Brian With the next-generation Surface now on sale in 21 countries, Microsoft probably needs to clear out whatever Surface Pros are still lingering in warehouses. As such, the company has taken $100 off both its 64GB and 128GB Pro slates, bringing their base prices to $699 and $799, respectively. According to the fine print, the discount is only available to customers in the US and Canada and will stay in place…

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Tablets To Grow 42.7% This Year, Says Gartner, As The Traditional PC declines 11.2%

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Natasha Lomas   The tablet category is continuing to eat the PC’s lunch, albeit it’s a large lunch so the feast is taking a while. Analyst Gartner expects worldwide tablet shipments to grow 42.7% this year, with shipments reaching 184 million units. And while traditional PCs are still shipping a lot more units (303,100 forecast for this year), those shipments are continuing to decline — predicted to be down 11.2% on 2012 shipments.…

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Microsoft Surface 2 review: a second chance for Windows RT?

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman We get the sense Microsoft wants to distance itself from the original Surface RT. After taking a $900 million hit on unsold inventory, the company held a press eventwhere it saved the Surface 2 for last and billed it as a major redesign. “Surface 2 is not subtle, but a revamp,” Surface GM Panos Panay said that day. “It is not the simple changes that everybody wants, but it’s the changes people need.” Those changes include…

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The CEOs Are Wrong: Smart Machines Will Replace Millions Of Jobs

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Smart machines are coming to the business world, but don’t tell that to the CEOs. Sixty-percent of CEOs surveyed by Gartner Research say the emergence of smart machines capable of absorbing millions of middle-class jobs within 15 years is a “futurist fantasy.” The survey results reflect the anxiety about automation of the work world and the advent of smart machines that Gartner says will have a widespread and deep business impact by…

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Office 365 Is Coming To The iPad, Scout’s Honor

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JORDAN CROOK You’ve been played before. You’re vulnerable and nervous about opening up again. It wouldn’t be the first time you’ve been lied to. Back in 2011 we heard rumors that the iPad would be graced with Office’s presence in 2012, and shortly thereafter we saw an actual photo of Office on an iPad. But… nothing. And then some more nothing. Until today. The company is finally letting Office 365 smooch up against the…

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LA officials may delay school iPad rollout after students hack them in a week

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As reported on Engadget. By Matt Brian Just a week after it began the first phase of putting iPads in the hands of all 640,000 students in the state, the Los Angeles school district already has a fight on its hands. In a matter of days, 300 children at Theodore Roosevelt High School managed to work around protective measures placed on the Apple tablets, giving them complete access to features — including Facebook, Twitter and other apps —…

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Surface blades: Microsoft bets on accessories as the future of tablets

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft’s biggest announcement this week wasn’t its Surface 2 or Surface Pro 2tablets, or even what was inside them. It was a surprising Music Cover and the thinner, more impressive second-generation Touch Cover. Instead of rethinking the core concepts behind the Surface itself, Microsoft is getting adventurous with the accessories. For the Music Cover, the company worked with Joe Hahn of Linkin Park to launch a product designed specifically to allow…

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