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The future is all about competition. We have several great smartphones. We have thousands of great apps. We have a few great tablets. Now that things feel all nice and established and ready to settle down, it’s time for someone to come in and shake things up all over again. You’ve got Mircosoft looking to directly challenge the iTunes and Spotify Titans with Xbox Music, which will grow beyond consoles and soon be available on iOS and Android devices. You’ve got the Boxee TV, which arrives on November 1st and will allow for live television watching, cloud-based DVR-ing and access to various streaming apps like Netflix (all for only $99). How good does it feel to know that the status quo may be ready to radically shift in the coming years? The tech industry is never not interesting. Of course, the big question here is whether or not Microsoft will make us forget the Zune…

This is not a picture of the rumored/forthcoming/going-to-be-announced-this-month iPad Mini, but rather a manufacturer mock-up that helps other companies design and build protective cases that will be ready at launch. Still, we’d be surprised if the final product looked different than this. Unless Apple truly plans to shake things up, expect the company’s new 7″ tablet to resemble this mock-up in just about every way. Meanwhile, Microsoft is betting big on its entry into the Tablet War, ordering between three and five million Surface tablets for the next quarter. The price of the Surface tablet was also revealed: they’ll start at $499 and go up from there. That’s a lot of money for something that doesn’t have Apple on it.

So, who’ll win the holiday season? The iPad Mini? The new and improved Kindle Fire? The Android Nexus 7? Or Microsfot’s surface. It could get bloody out there…

We hear at Rocksauce Studios love our karaoke, so a karaoke mobile app is the kind of thing that gets us excited. Unfortunately, this one is based off of TV’s The Voice, but hey, we’ll take what we can get!

The world is a dangerous place for an iPhone! This helpful infographic will help you learn to keep your fragile iDevice nice and safe. The key seems to be never taking it out of your pocket.

 

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