Digest: October 12, 2012

Published October 12, 2012 | By Howard

This has been a rather slow week, news-wise. Here are a few things of interest.

Weak Interest In The iPad Mini? – The TechBargains website recently conducted a survey concerning the much rumoured, yet-to-be announced iPad Mini. Only 18% of the respondents indicated that they planned to purchase the min. 50% weren’t interested and the rest were sitting on the fence. Read the full story on ZDNet.
Why is the iPad mini like Waiting For Godot? – If you’re tired of waiting for Cupertino to announce/launch the vapour-ware mini, there are 5 other 7 inch options that you might want to consider. Read the full story from PC Magazine.
And you think that your cell phone bill is HUGE? – A French woman received an unbelievable bill from her carrier saying that she owed 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros. That’s roughly $15 quadrillion US. Suddenly, the national debt doesn’t seem quite as bad as we thought. Read the full story on C|NET.
And finally . . . – Dr. Data is combining the Digest and All in fun today. He couldn’t resist the cat photo below.