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Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet is here:

With the Surface, Microsoft aims to make a tablet that is half entertainment machine, half productivity device. It’s off to a good start with innovative software and solid hardware, but its success depends on a risky “if you build it, they will come” approach to apps.

Check out our full review

iPad Mini starts at $329 and ships November 2

Say hello to the iPad Mini

13-inch MacBook Pro gets skinnier and dons a new Retina Display

Tim Cook has taken the stage! 

MacBook Pro 13 with Retina, Mac Mini specs leak ahead of Apple event

The Apple Store is down! Repeat: The Apple Store is down!

Our live coverage of Apple ginormous iPad Mini event starts at 12 pm ET/9am PT!

We’ve got some big questions about… Sorry, just, sorry. No more size wordplay. Promise.

Pagers! They’re those things from a bygone era that you occasionally see on Grey’s Anatomy.

Well, Don’t tell the beeper king, but it looks like even doctors are abandoning them:

Of the 106 pediatric hospital physicians surveyed, 96 percent say they text and 90 percent say they use a smartphone, with 57 percent of the physicians reporting they’ve sent or received work-related text messages and 49 percent even when they weren’t working or on call.

They’ll be back. Technology is cyclical.

inothernews:

Heh.

Meet Steven Sinofsky, the controversial man behind Windows 8

The iPad Mini could really, really hurt the already struggling PC market, says analyst

You may want to sit down for this because we have a big surprise: Bill Gates thinks Windows 8 is great!

Beer can keyboard is perfect for drunken Facebook updates

Forget touch typing, we’re entering the realm of tongue typing with a working keyboard made from full cans of beer.

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