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First Look: Apple iPad mini
The small iPad is just what the official name – indeed called iPad mini – suggests. It's recognizably the iconic iPad tablet, only it's smaller, as Apple announced on Oct. 23. The iPad mini goes on sale Nov. 2, at $329 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model, $429 for 32 GB, and $529 for 64 GB. The LTE/3G option adds $130. Here's a closer look at what you get. Read More


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Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event
Amazon Web Services has almost fully recovered from a more than 12-hour event that appears to have started by only impacting a small number of customers but quickly snowballed into a larger issue that took down major sites including Reddit, Imgur and others yesterday. Read More

10 things you can get from Windows 8 that Windows 7 just doesn't have
Microsoft's radical shift to touch-centric computing in Windows 8 is far from the only difference between the new operating system and its predecessor. Read More

Juniper Networks removes another top exec
A management shake-up at Juniper Networks continues, as Stefan Dyckerhoff has been replaced as executive vice president of Juniper's Platform Systems Division by Rami Rahim, who currently leads the company's edge and aggregation routing business unit. Read More

iPad Mini vs. Nexus 7: A head-to-head tablet comparison
Apple made a point of doing a side-by-side comparison of its new iPad Mini with Google's Nexus 7 at the launch event Tuesday in San Jose, highlighting the mini tablet's thinness, larger viewable screen area and custom app compatibility. Read More

FTC: Companies should limit facial recognition in some cases
Web companies using facial recognition technology should avoid identifying anonymous images of consumers to someone who could not otherwise identify them, unless the companies have the consumers' consent, a U.S. Federal Trade Commission report said. Read More

Apple brings Retina display to the 13-inch MacBook Pro
Apple's high-resolution Retina display now comes in another portable configuration, as the company unveiled a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display on Tuesday that complements the 15-inch model introduced over the summer. Read More

Windows 8: Already mastered by a 3-year-old
Meet Julian, the three-year-old who has mastered Windows 8 and in turn rebutted the many complaints that Microsoft's newest operating system strays too far from the Windows on which computer users were raised for widespread adoption. Read More

Best desktop video tools
Adobe Connect and Cisco WebEx are all-around winners in test of Web-based conferencing products Read More

'2013 is going to be ugly' for Microsoft as it shifts to Windows 8, Forrester predicts
As Microsoft launches Windows 8, and with it, an attempt to stabilize a precipitous decline in its share of operating systems for 'personal devices, 2013 is going to be a tough, very tough year, research firm Forrester said today. Read More

Web still king, but email stages scam comeback
Trust, but verify. That was the motto of President Ronald Reagan. It also ought to be the motto of everyone who uses email. Read More

The scene outside Apple's iPad Mini event in San Jose
The scene outside Apple's iPad Mini event in San Jose Reporters wait outside of San Jose's California Theatre before the start of Apple's event Tuesday, where the company is expected to announce a new mini iPad. From: networkworld Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 00:51 More in Science & Technology Read More

 
 
 

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