Dads are notoriously hard to shop for, but Amazon aims to make the gift-giving choice easier this Father's Day by trimming the cost of its Kindle Fire HD tablet line.

From today until Saturday, June 8, Amazon is offering a $20 discount for its 7-inch Kindle Fire HD ($199), the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD ($269) and the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD with 4G LTE ($399). To access the deal, use the promotional code DADSFIRE at checkout.  Read more…

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Last week, Facebook introduced a "Share" button on its mobile site and apps.

At long last, smartphone and tablet users can post links from their News Feed directly to their own pages with the touch of a button. It's taken the social media giant years to take this step and move mobile closer to the desktop Facebook experience. If you're (understandably) excited to start sharing but aren't sure exactly how, check out this step-by-step guide. Read more…

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Wal-Mart has cut the price of the iPad mini, adding heft to speculation that next month’s World World Developers’ Conference (WWDC) could be marked by a second take on Apple’s micro-tablet.

The US retail giant, the sheer size of which in its US domestic market makes Tesco look like Arkwright’s homely corner shop from Open All Hours, has trimmed $30 off the iPad mini. That brings the cost of the device down to $299.

Although fairly modest, the price cut comes ahead of Apple’s press call/developers’ get-together in June, suggesting to some tech-watchers that the unveiling of iOS 7 could be accompanied by the company’s Google Nexus 7-challenger.

Recent indications from Apple’s supply-chain had suggested that the iPad mini 2 wouldn’t arrive until much later in the year, after the company’s manufacturing partners purportedly encountered production problems.

These are believed to relate to the challenge of creating a scaled-down high-res Retina display for the slate, as well as issues with the fingerprint-scanning technology that is intended to add an extra layer of security.

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Stabley Times

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Purported specifications for the second-gen iPad mini have leaked online, along with a mock-up imaging how Apple’s next effort is likely to look based on the leaked spec sheet.

According to a source cited by Dutch website MobiLeaks, the slate will pack a 7.9-inch display with 2048 x 1536 pixels (324ppi) and, as rumours suggest, the same Retina display technology as the standard-sized slate.

The slate also packs Apple’s A7 processor, an eight-megapixel camera, a secondary two-megapixel camera for video calls and for snapping those utterly vain and self-regarding self-portraits to post on Twitter so all your mates can see how just purty you are.

As with earlier models, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB storage options will be on offer and will come in 0.3-inchs slimmer than the current edition at 7.5mm.

Taking the market intel into account, the render imagines how Apple will be able to slim down the device without compromising the screen size by reducing the size of the bezel around the display.

Truth be told, it looks pretty cool too. But like a few other tech watchers, we’re not sure there’s any particular imperative to shrink the iPad mini this early in the range’s life, so we wouldn’t be surprised if the real tablet retains the same dimensions as the current one.

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Mobilinks

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After today's announcement of Panasonic's 20-inch 4K tablet, the company unveiled the enormous slab at its booth at CES 2013. We got a close-up look at this super-thin Windows 8 device, and we bring you this gallery along with all of its specs and particulars.

Panasonic told us this prototype is aimed at professionals who will be able to use a stylus to manipulate graphics in the cloud. This might be an excellent tool for professionals such as video editors, who will be able to trim and scrub their video clips on a timeline and share them with colleagues online. Read more…

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