 It's Monday October 1st 2012. I'm Adrienne Jeffries, and this is 5a hexadecimal seconds on the verge Amazon's Kindle paper white is now shipping the company's latest e-reader has a high resolution e-ink display That's frontlit for nighttime reading in our review of the device. We found it to be one of the best e-readers We've ever used although the 3g option can be a little pricey The Kindle paper white starts at $119 and goes as high as $199 with 3g and no ads Barnes & Noble meanwhile has dropped the price of its competing Nook simple touch with glow light That's now $119 with no ads both good devices in their own right But in the end it really comes down to who you want to buy your books from IKEA's LED crusade begins in earnest the Swedish furniture company has announced that by 2016 it plans to phase out sales of all traditional lighting equipment opting exclusively for LED lights While the high cost of non-traditional lighting may be prohibitive for some The company says it will sell LED bulbs at the lowest price on the market IKEA's cheapest LED bulb starts at $999 and is a great excuse to go have meatballs with lingonberry in the cafeteria Apple's ping has been laid to rest The iTunes based social network was first announced in 2010 But it completely failed to gain traction with users the company has now Mercifully shut down ping for good a move it foretold just a few weeks ago Good night sweet prince and flights of angels sing me to thy rest That's it for today's top stories coming tomorrow how bioluminescence and genetic modification are changing the culture of pumpkin carving