iPad mini: delivery times lengthen

Opened last Friday iPad preorders have mini seems it really started. Evidenced by the delivery which have been in a few hours from the original date of November 2 to 2 weeks.

 This is particularly the case in France, England, Germany, Italy, in other European countries, the United States (except for the black version 16GB) and Asia (South Korea, Japan).

Change of provider for screens cause? The iPad mini will officially marketed from next Friday and the excitement of the first day will be another interesting indicator to follow.

 Asked last week by our colleagues from Cnet.com, the NPD DisplaySearch predicted a longer delivery time due to supply difficulties screens 7.9 inches. Concerned, the fact that Samsung is not the number of suppliers.

Apple works this time with LG Display and AU Optronics, and it has not yet reached the production capacity needed.

LG would be currently the main supplier with 300,000 screens delivered in September, October and 1 million 3 million expected in December.

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Google Maps Gets a Makeover [VIDEO]

Google Maps has gotten a fresh new look, adding some "visual improvements" to its design.

 [More from Mashable: Hurricane Sandy Forces Google to Cancel Android Event] The application now lets users get a clearer view of natural geography by showing terrain and color gradations to illustrate vegetation.

 It also includes labels for natural land formations. "This enriched visual data allows you to quickly and easily see where the great forests, deserts and mountain ranges around the world begin and end," Maps software engineer Karl Johann Schmidt said in a Friday blog post.

 "It also conveys how natural land formations can impact where, how and why man-made developments like urban cities, dams and bridges are made."

Its goal is to further buttress Google Maps as the most complete and accurate global mapping service, Schmidt added.

 He then posted some examples of Maps before and before the makeover: Southern Asia - Before Southern Asia - After Vancouver, Canada - Before Vancouver, Canada - After South America - Without "Amazon Basin" label South America - With "Amazon Basin" label.

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Facebook: strong growth in stock market

Since its IPO in May last action Facebook had never been to such a party. If it remains far from its IPO price of $ 38, the Facebook share jumped 19.13% Wednesday to close at 23.23 Nasdaq dollars. Day during which she went to exceed $ 24.

The performance is all the more remarkable in a climate where technology stocks declined -0.34%. After weeks terrible marked by sharp decreases, Facebook began action to regain some feathers last month.

Yesterday, it had its strongest growth. No secret, the announcement last Tuesday Group's financial results reassured investors.

These results were higher than analysts' expectations. If Facebook still shows a net loss of $ 59 million, the social network has given rise to hope in its ability to monetize its huge mobile audience.

In the third quarter, Facebook generated $ 1.09 billion in advertising revenue nearly 14% ($ 150 million) from mobile.

A result even though the group's advertising products are only suitable for a few months for a consultation on mobile. CEO and co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has denounced the "myth" that his group could not make money on mobile.

 An area that has become the priority. The results will obviously be confirmed in the coming months. In September 2012, Facebook recorded 1.01 billion active users and 604 million active users on mobile.

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