* Our review of Amazon’s (AMZN) long-awaited Kindle Fire tablet. Is it the tablet market’s next great white hope or just a lot of hype? Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos gives Wired’s Steven Levy a piece of his mind. (Fortune and Wired)

* A first, inside look at Google X, a top secret lab where the Internet giant is working on a list of 100 “shoot-for-the-stars” ideas. (The New York Times)

* The wildly popular video game
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
raked in $400 million in 24 hours, a new record. (Boy Genius Report)

* How Google (GOOG), eBay (EBAY) and PayPal are gearing up for a mobile-focused holiday shopping season. (TechCrunch)

* An Adobe (ADBE) employee on why mobile Flash died. (TechCrunch)

* Ken Parks, head of Spotify’s New York office, explains how exactly the growing music service works. (NPR)

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