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We were expecting two new Kindle Fire tablets to launch at Amazon’s press event on 6 September, one 7-inch and a larger one to take on the iPad. But now word reaches us that both will be 7-inchers. Our colleagues at CNET News report Amazon will reveal a new 7-inch Kindle Fire alongside a slightly revamped version of the original, …

Could the iPad mini be a mashup of Apple’s older gadgets? The much-rumoured tiny tablet could sport the same processor as the iPad 2, while having the same screen resolution as the iPhone 3GS, according to the man behind Instapaper. Marco Arment, who developed the popular text reader and bookmarking app, claims Instapaper’s logs show it was recently accessed by …