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Amazon’s Supply Problem Disappears: Kindle Fire HD Prices Cut By $50 Today

When Amazon launched the 8.9-inch version of its Kindle Fire HD tablet, it predicted supply problems. Maybe those have gone away: Amazon is knocking $50 off the $299 device’s entry price via a one-day sale today. Amazon’s tablet is supposed to compete, feature-wise, with Apple’s iPad mini and Google’s Nexus 10.

Apple Starts Selling New Super-Skinny iMacs Friday

There may not be a lot of them to go around. But they are going out when Apple said they would.
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Apple Says It’s “Practically Sold Out” of iPad Minis, but Doesn’t Provide Number (Updated)

Tim Cook moved three million units in the last three days. But he isn’t breaking that number out, at least not yet.
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Jimmy Kimmel on the iPad Mini: “We’re Apple, and You’re Suckers”

“Anyone standing in line for an iPad mini in New York or New Jersey this week should be punched in the throat.”
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Place Your iPad Mini Bets

Sales of 1.5 million units this weekend, says Piper Jaffray bull Gene Munster. Not nearly enough, says Walt Piecyk.
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Apple’s Mini Pitch: Just as Good as an iPad, Better Than Everything Else

It’s like an iPad, only smaller. So, how will Tim Cook convince you to buy one?
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Hope You Like Seeing This Microsoft Surface Ad, Over and Over and Over

Two tablets are launching in the last week of October. Only one of them has started running TV spots.
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