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Hosts
Stuart Clark
Jamieson Roberts
Carmi Levy

Apple event Livecast Tuesday starting around 12:30. Look for the link on Twitter.

Topics

Apple event on Tuesday.  Ipad Mini?

Ipad Mini may go for $329 not $250

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-ipad-mini-price-329-20121022,0,710368.story

 

Apple, Microsoft gambling on a growing taste for tablets

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/apple-microsoft-gambling-on-a-growing-taste-for-tablets/article4627294/

(Win8 launches this Friday. WinPhone8 launches Monday. Separated at birth? Are mobile/conventional operating systems destined to converge into one? And can we chew on which is more significant: a shrunken tablet or an OS that 85% of us are going to eventually use?)

Google wants in on the event action, too: Monday, October 29 at 1:00 pm Eastern.
Rumour mill says it’ll reveal 10-inch Nexus tablets and 3G-capable Nexus 7 tablets.
The real question is whether the company is doomed: their quarterly financial results, revealed last week, were way off expectations. Cost per click was down 15%, and they still haven’t figured out the mobile revenue code. Not time to panic yet, but if Google can’t figure it out, who can?
http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/why-google-missed-bellwether-slip-sends-chill-industry-202239854.html

Kindle user claims Amazon deleted whole library without explanation
http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/kindle-user-claims-amazon-dele.html

RIM strikes security tech deal with mobile payment firm EnStream
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/10/22/rim-strikes-security-tech-deal-with-mobile-payment-firm-enstream/
http://www1.rim.com/newsroom/press/2012/rim_s-secure-element-manager-solution-to-power-nfc-mobile-paymen.html

Ubuntu 12 released just before windows 8 and they say it in their advertising
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/ubuntu-12-10-released

Windows 8 releases this Friday.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows/21186/windows-8-release-date-soon-review-roundup-itbwcw

Shuttle Endeavour finally makes it to the California Science Center. Let’s talk about what it means, and share this link to a pretty remarkable time-lapse slide show of the entire operation:
http://bit.ly/RqHJ9C
or
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/18/a-beautiful-time-lapse-of-space-shuttle-endeavours-journey-through-la/

Picks of the Week

Stuart Fing Network mapper for IOS
Jamieson – London OnTime for iOS
Carmi – Planetary – music library exploration/discovery app for your iPad