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Amazon will have a tablet computer of its own out by October to compete with the iPad, reports the Wall Street Journal. Insiders say the Android device will have a 9-inch screen but no camera. Amazon also plans two Kindle updates: One version will have a touch-screen and the other will be an improved version of the current model.

Some quick reaction:

• Sam Biddle, Gizmodo: Not a huge surprise, but the 9-inch screen “says a lot,” he writes. “Its not looking to simply be a better Nook Color, but a real tablet fighting the iPad and every other major slate thing out there.”

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