ZAGG is back at it with their viral giveaways. Once again for Black Friday, they are giving away an iPad every single hour for 24 hours. Up for grabs every hour will be the 4th generation iPad 4, so that’s $12,000 total worth of prizes. You can sign up on their page here to be reminded of when the contest will start (November 23rd at 12AM MST).

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MG Siegler reviews the Microsoft Surface with Windows RT over at TechCrunch: 

Compared to using an actual desktop machine or even the iPad, everything done on the Surface feels lethargic. Opening just about every app takes far longer than it should. The performance on key apps like Maps is abysmal. Try playing Fruit Ninja on any iOS device and then open it on the Surface. It’s like there’s a layer … Read More

It’s been well over two weeks since the iPad mini launched. White models were delayed two weeks from the pre-order date but eventually shipped a week after the public release date. Now that you’ve had some time with this smaller iPad, what do you think of it? 

We have spent some time with our white iPad mini and our initial thoughts? It’s built incredibly well. Super thin and light, it does … Read More

DisplayMate has released their findings of how the iPad mini competes against the Amazon Fire Kindle HD and Google Nexus 7. Here is their conclusion:

The iPad mini is certainly a very capable small Tablet, but it does not follow in Apple’s tradition of providing the best display, or at least a great display – it has just a very capable display. What’s more, the displays on existing mini Tablets … Read More

The wait is over! Today marks the official launch of the iPad mini and 4th generation iPad in Canada, the USA and other initial launch countries. The iPad mini and iPad 4 will be available for purchase at Apple retail stores and other official resellers such as Future Shop, Best Buy, London Drugs and more. Future Shop and Best Buy will be opening their doors at 8AM for the launch … Read More

The iPad mini and 4th gen iPad will hit stores this Friday and tonight early reviews of both devices have hit the web. Here’s a round up of what you can read so far to help you decide on any future purchases:

The Loop
TIME Tech
The Verge
Engadget
The Globe and Mail
The Guardian
CNET
Wall Street Journal (Walt Mossberg)
USA Today
Slashgear
TechCrunch
The Telegraph
FOX News
Bloomberg Businessweek
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Apple.ca has sold out of the 16GB black iPad mini pre-order, as availability now shows ’2 weeks’ whereas the 32GB and 64GB models are still on track to ship by next week’s November 2nd launch date.

Initial iPad mini pre-orders that kicked off at 12:01AM PDT on Friday had white Wi-Fi models delayed to 2 weeks right from the … Read More

If you’re asking yourself what time will online orders start for Apple’s iPad mini, the time will be at 12:01AM PDT (3AM EDT) on Friday, October 26th. This is the same pre-order time we saw for the iPhone 5 and was confirmed when we spoke with Apple online customer support. Cellular iPad mini models will be … Read More

Apple announced their 2012 Q4 earnings this afternoon and reported $36 billion in revenue with a net profit of $8.2 billion. As for iPad sales, the company sold 14 million iPads, a 26% increase compared to a year ago. As for the rest of the product sales, they are listed below:

26.9 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 58 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.
4.9 million Macs during the … Read More

On top of announcing the iPad mini today, Apple announced the 4th generation iPad with updated specs, which essentially sent the iPad 3rd gen into the graveyard (well, it’s available as refurbished). The 4th gen iPad gets the A6X chip that double graphics and CPU performance of the A5X and also maintains 10 hours of battery. Cosmetically, nothing has changed.

There’s … Read More