A lot of folk are noticing that running the updated version on the iPhone pretty either bricks the phone or slows it down. And that after deleting the app, it can't be re-installed. Most folk encountering this are running IOS 4.3.5. Others who are running IOS 5.0 don't seem to be having the problem.

You still retain the right to keep silent (whether or not your rights have been read to you). If you decide to encrypt your phone and put a password on it, you are therefore not obligated to divulge anything - including that password - to the authorities.

They generally do. The Facebook app is not an "Apple Product".

Damn. Jumped over to the iTunes App store before reading the final paragraph. That'll teach me to read to the end first.

I had a similar experience at an Apple store this past week and just could not believe they would just replace the product (an iPad2) but they did. Yesterday I was on my way out. Got my keys, looked around for the TV remote (the all news channel was on, muted), and then I saw the words flash on the screen. Sat…

It has to do with an identifier as to whether the new iPhone is a major or minor release. A minor release involving cosmetic changes, and a few new features would be 4x (4S in this case) but a major release (which would include a major new feature like 4G/LTE) would bring it to the next full version number.

Agreed. Storage has everything to do with it. Though Apple enjoyed much success with the iPhone4, many of us (me included) didn't bother to upgrade, since the maximum storage remained at 32GB.

My guess is that Apple might not yet be ready to support 4G/LTE, and so they are reserving the iPhone 5 designation until they can.

I don't know. This law seems like a good idea to me. Although I wonder at the likelihood of its effectivness. Certainly it would give the government time to raise the alarm, and allow another company to step up to the plate but.....what if there are none?

From the time it was first announced with that limitation, I was thinking the same thing. One of our executives, keen to jump into the tablet arena by getting one of these, gave it back in disgust after having it for only a week. Didn't seem to like the idea of having to carry around two devices, when his intent…

I guess it might depend on what you're there for. I follow only those who are creative enough to say something interesting (or provide links) with the allotted 140 characters. Usually funny guys, and tech news.

It's really not that big a deal. It's not as if twitter feeds are static and we have to look at them all day long. People often assign too much weight to their tweets - not realizing that whatever you took the time to slave over for half an hour goes by readers' eyes in a blink of an eye. Sometimes we stop and…

I can't believe this. LIterally cannot believe they would be so stupid as to put out a less than functional-ideal new Blackberry. What are they going to do? Suggest that you could get all of the functionality you want, as long as you tether it to another Blackberry? I mean that worked for the Playbook didn't it?

Excellent point. These kinds of tweets are going to show up from time to time anyway. We can be sure of that. And probably every time, major Mac sites are going to comment on them. Nice to see CBS set their record straight. Jobs' family is probably feeling really good about this negative publicity. /sarcasm

Look if you're going to put out a product out there for public consumption, expecting the public to buy into it (thereby increasing ad revenue) you should fully expect criticism. Yes, if Google would prefer that we use their search engine instead of Bing or the others out there, they have to build a better…

Giz seems to get targeted so often it seems. Too much Apple, not enough tech, etc. etc. The key for any successful place like this is to give people what they want. Clearly, they want Apple and these other human interest stories or it wouldn't be such a popular blog/tech site. This mirrors the interests of the…

I'm with you on this one. Different cultures have made a habit of demonizing other cultures. It's historical - and therefore to be taken with a grain of salt.

I've been reading about how many of us will go to Google + now, where we don't have to put up with this kind of nonsense (yet), and how Google + will eventually go to the same place. Doesn't matter though. For now, Google isn't doing this, so it will become the social media drug of choice for many of us - me…

*grin* And that's another topic: fax machines. I really thought scanners would take over that technology and make it redundant. Evidently not - as our fax machine spits out loads of spam each night from pollyanna businesses who really think they're going to hook us.

Your point is true. Providing that ALL of the stakeholders do this. Maybe the small business owner can send out his bills through private carriers. But who is going to force his customers and vendors to send back their cheques that way? It's not that simple.