Gadgetory

Apple's got more than the mini of its sleeve I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update everyone is obsessed with the news of an ipad mini and yes the mini will be the star of apple's news announcement on tuesday but apple will show off more than just the small tablet we're expecting to see at least one new computer model so that could be a new imac desktop or a mac mini we've also heard a report that Apple will give its 13-inch macbook pro laptop a Retina display Apple CEO Tim Cook has said the Mac Pro will get a big update in 2013 but it may be too early to announce that upgrade and when Apple does talk about the ipad mini there will be a big focus around education and bringing it into classrooms that's according to a report from Bloomberg oh and don't forget Apple showed off the new itunes at the iphone 5 news event is not available yet but Apple could finally release that itunes update all will be revealed Tuesday at ten a.m. Pacific 1 p.m. Eastern so log on to cnet com default the live coverage of the announcement but apples not the only one coming out with new gadgets on Friday the new windows 8 computers and tablets go on sale and next week on Monday October 29th Google will be showing off new smartphones and tablets seen it has learned that Google will unveil a nexus 4 smartphone made by LG and will also show off a 10-inch Nexus tablet made by samsung it's going to be an upgraded version of the nexus 7 and it's supposed to have a better screen resolution than the latest ipad google will also announced android version 4.2 which is an upgrade to jellybean in other news rise and customers with android phones can pay for Google Play Store downloaded apps music and movies through their monthly phone bills sprint ATT and tmobile already have had the ability to do this remember Facebook questions when you can create a poll for any topic well no one really uses it anymore so Facebook's quietly phasing out that feature but pages and groups can still create questions and Microsoft is running a promotion anyone who buys office 2010 or 2011 can now download an upgrade to 2013 for free whenever it comes out a new type of mobile payment service that will compete with Google Wallet has launched in Salt Lake City and Austin Texas it's called Isis it's a collaboration between verizon AT&T mobile to create a standard way to pay by tapping a smartphone to a sensor at a register for it to work though you need a smartphone with an end of C chip aside from being used as a credit or debit card the ISIS program also stores coupons and can be used for targeted marketing but of course the biggest challenge of all this technology is why use a phone app when it's still just as easy to pull out a credit card that your tech news update for today you can find links to all today's stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey