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The iPad mini is here! The new miniature iPad sports the rumored…

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The iPad mini is here! The new miniature iPad sports the rumored 7.9-inch IPS (NOT RETINA) display, 4G LTE connectivity with AT&T, Verizon & Sprint in the US, the dual-core A5 chip, 5MP rear camera, VGA front-facing camera, 1080p recording, Siri, AirPlay, Smart Cover compatibility, and the notorious Lightning connector. The new iPad mini comes in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB and will start at $329. It will ship on November 2!

Chinese Teen Sells Kidney to Buy iThings

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Chinese Teen Sells Kidney to Buy iThings:

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In the United States 34% of teenagers have an iPhone and another 40% hope to buy one sometime in the next six months.

If you’re in the market, don’t do it this way:

Five people in southern China have been charged with intentional injury in the case of a Chinese teenager who sold a kidney so he could buy an iPhone and an iPad, the government-run Xinhua News Agency said on Friday.

The five included a surgeon who removed a kidney from a 17-year-old boy in April last year. The boy, identified only by his surname Wang, now suffers from renal deficiency, Xinhua quoted prosecutors in Chenzhou city, Hunan province as saying.

According to the Xinhua account, one of the defendants received about 220,000 yuan (about $35,000) to arrange the transplant. He paid Wang 22,000 yuan [about $3,500] and split the rest with the surgeon, the three other defendants and other medical staff.

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RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook is in total flop, hurt-the-bottom-line mode

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  • 150,000 tablets number of BlackBerry PlayBooks RIM sold in the third quarter; to compare, RIM sold 14.1 million smartphones
  • $450 million size of the financial hit RIM took in the third quarter, partly as a result of lackluster PlayBook sales source

» Why is the PlayBook flopping? If you asked RIM, you’d get an answer that sounds pretty jargon-y: “Recent shifts in the competitive dynamics of the tablet market and a delay in the release of the PlayBook OS 2.0 software.” Here’s the English version of that answer: “The iPad, the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire.” But that’s just us talking. Meanwhile, RIM has been trimming the price of the PlayBook from an absurd $500 to as low as $199 — in part to clear inventory for the next version of the device, though we’re guessing the fact that other seven-inch tablets are selling for roughly that price doesn’t help.

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