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Google's Nexus 10 Hits Apple Where It Lives October 30, 2012 
Google canceled its New York press event Monday due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast, but that didn't stop it from announcing its new Nexus 10 tablet, along with the Nexus 4 smartphone and Android 4.2, an update to Jelly Bean. A step up in size from the Asus-made Nexus 7, released in July, the Samsung-made Nexus 10 will be available beginning Nov. 13.
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What Lies Beneath the Surface Tablet's Screen October 29, 2012 
The last thing people probably consider when buying a new gizmo or gadget is how hard it might be to fix, but according to the teardown team at iFixit, Microsoft's shiny new Surface tablet is easier to repair than the latest iPad, but it is still difficult to take apart. The online teardown site rated the Surface's "repairability" a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the easiest.
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Microsoft Boxes Apple's Ears With Surface Tablet October 29, 2012 
You really don't get a sense of just how limited the iPad is until you actually explore the Surface tablet that Microsoft released last week. It is like the designers sat down over beers and argued over every single shortcoming they found in the iPad and then built into Surface just the right features to make the iPad look inadequate.
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After Earnings Miss, Apple Looks to Holidays for Help October 26, 2012 
Apple is setting its sights on the holiday season after an earnings report that fell short of expectations for the second straight quarter. Apple's profit rose 24 percent for the quarter that ended in September, with a net income of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per share, up from the $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per share it brought in a year earlier.
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iPad Mini: The Difference Is in the Details October 26, 2012 
Feature for feature, the iPad mini mainly bests its rivals in the 7-inch tablet market, but it does so at a price that's 65 percent higher than those competitors. The mini has a larger display than Amazon's Kindle Fire HD and Google's Nexus 7. Its screen measures 7.9 inches diagonally, while the Fire and Nexus have 7-inch displays. Apple's tablet is longer than both its competitors and wider than Google's slate.
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Chinese Company Rips Off iPad Mini and Its Tagline October 25, 2012 
Goophone, a Chinese company best known for cloning Apple products, reportedly will release its iPad mini doppelganger in November. The "GooPad mini," which already appears on posters, will sell for $99, while Apple's iPad mini will cost $329 but won't be sold right away in China. Goophone has even taken the liberty of ripping off Apple's "Every inch an iPad" tagline: "Every inch a GooPad mini."
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Apple's Biggest Threat: Killer Advertising October 25, 2012 
While Apple crafts consumer gadgets of incredible beauty, built to look good on the outside and the inside -- even when Apple tries to fuse the case so the components can never be seen by mere mortals -- the hardware is not Apple's biggest weapon. The MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro with Retina display, the iMac, the iPad and new iPad mini -- not even the wildly popular iPhone is the most devastating weapon in Apple's arsenal.
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Ecosystem Agnostics May Tip Scales for iPad Mini Sales October 24, 2012 
All eyes were on Apple on Tuesday as the company held its second product launch this fall to announce the iPad mini, along with refreshes to its iPad, iMac, MacBook Pro and Mac mini lines, ahead of the holiday shopping season. The iPad mini features the same dual-core A5 processor as the iPad 2. The 7.9-inch device was designed to be light and thin for one-handed use.
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Apple Rubber Band Patent Bounced by USPTO October 24, 2012 
Apple's patent on rubber banding -- the bounce-back scrolling behavior that played a role in its victory over Samsung in a lawsuit earlier this year -- has been rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Rubber banding, also known as "scroll bounce," causes the image on a screen to bounce when it reaches its top or side limits.
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Apple's Big Mini Mystery Solved October 24, 2012 
Apple made it official Tuesday and unveiled its new iPad mini tablet along with a new iMac and MacBook Pro. The new tablet is notable in that it is 7 inches, the same size as similar products from Amazon and Google. The MacBook Pro features a 2.6 GHz Intel processor, high-resolution Retina display and solid-state drive. The new MacBook will be 20 percent thinner than the previous generation.
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Skinny Mini Joins Apple's Chorus Line October 24, 2012 
Apple revealed not only the much-anticipated iPad mini Tuesday, but also a flurry of updates across its product line. The full-size iPad, now in its fourth generation, gained a new A6X chip with twice the CPU and graphics performance as the previous generation's A5X chip. The 13-inch MacBook Pro picked up a graphic-intense Retina display, while Apple also announced a beefed-up Mac mini.
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UK Judges Order Apple to Set the Record Straight October 19, 2012 
A three-judge panel has rebuffed an attempt by Apple to overturn a UK court's decision favoring Samsung. Britain's Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that found Samsung's Galaxy tablet did not copy tablet designs registered by Apple in the UK. The court also sustained the lower court's mandate that Apple inform the public that Samsung's tablet does not infringe Apple's registered designs.
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A Tale of Two iPads October 18, 2012 
Even before Apple actually announces a product, as a Mac and iOS device enthusiast, I tend to start imagining how I could actually use Apple's new awesomeness. The results aren't always as I hope. Often enough, I end up concluding that I don't need it -- like the 27-inch iMac and the Mac mini -- and sometimes, that I don't even want it.
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Apple's Mini Doesn't Need Mega Success October 17, 2012 
Early adopters of the iPhone 5 probably don't have much time to bask in the glory of owning the latest Apple product. The company sent out invitations to an Oct. 23 event in San Jose, when it is expected to launch a smaller, more affordable tablet. The invitation reads, "We've got a little more to show you," with the "little" apparently implying a smaller iPad is truly on its way.
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iPad Mini Beats Surface to the Launch October 17, 2012 
Apple has announced a special press event for October 23 -- three days before Microsoft's impending launch of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet. It's widely believed that Cupertino will launch the much-anticipated iPad mini on that date. An iPad mini "will definitely be disruptive to the 7-inch media tablet space," said Rhoda Alexander, a research director at IHS iSuppli.
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Rockmelt for iPad Lets Pictures Do the Browsing October 12, 2012 
Rockmelt brought social browsing to the desktop in 2010 with an innovative Web browser, and now it hopes to do the same for the iPad with a new browser introduced on Thursday. Unlike traditional browsers, Rockmelt for iPad presents a user with two columns of floating tiles containing information that the user may be interested in based on past browsing. It chooses what to display based on an analysis of a user's Internet activity, social networking interactions, manual choices and other factors.
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Acer's Windows 8 Tablet Edges Into iPad Turf October 10, 2012 
Ramping up for the holiday season, Acer this week announced the Iconia W510 Windows 8 hybrid tablet, just five days after it unveiled the W700 Win 8 tablet PC. The W510 is offered in four versions -- as a standalone tablet PC with 32 or 64 GB of RAM, with a keyboard dock, or as a full-fledged business device running Windows 8 Pro. Prices range from $499 to $799 and the W510 will be available on Nov. 9.
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Consumers May Be Cooling Toward Apple October 10, 2012 
Apple stock ascended to a record high earlier this year, but the company has experienced a slight fall from grace in the past few weeks, with the stock down 10 percent from its all-time high of $705.07 on Sept. 21, the day the company launched the highly anticipated iPhone 5. Judging by the post-launch social buzz about the products, some of Apple's shine might be wearing off, said John Feland, CEO and founder of Argus Insights.
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Where's the iPad Mini Mystique? October 09, 2012 
Another day, another clue unearthed about the smaller iPad Apple is supposedly developing. This time, component suppliers in Asia have reportedly tipped Apple's hand, revealing that they have received orders millions of the 7.85-inch tablets in the fourth quarter.
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Apple Starts iPad Mini Production on the Sly October 03, 2012 
Apple's Asian component suppliers reportedly have begun mass-producing parts for a new tablet, which is believed to be smaller, and with a lower resolution, than the latest iPad that went on sale last March. Last month, South Korean LG Display and Taiwanese AU Optronics reportedly began mass-producing LCD screens to be used on the new devices
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