Gay rights advocates had a major victory today when Proposition 8 , the California ban on same-sex marriage was struck down by Cheif US District Judge Vaughn Walker. The ruling made by Judge Vaughn Walker was made after a lawsuit filed by …
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Proposition 8 victory: same sex marriage ban overturned
Apple faces lawsuit because iPad “overheats under common weather conditions”.
…will be only too aware that I’ve not exactly been longing to get my hands on Apple’s slate computer. Blogs like ‘The 10 biggest iPad disappointments’ and ‘I joined the queue for an iPad, but not to buy one’, should give you some idea of how highly I rate the thing.Apple of course is not the sort of company that takes the rough with the smooth when it comes to press coverage, so it’s no surprise that once I made it clear I had no intention of bigging up their device for them - they’ve got an army of fans and Steven Fry to do that for them anyhow - they made sure I wasn’t at the launch event, am not invited to join press conferences and sure as hell would never be offered a test version to have a play with. So far, so Apple.Hot on the heels of ‘Antennagate’ (the name given to the fact that the iPhone 4 has antenna problems that Apple told everyone was because they were holding it wrong, before arguing that most smart phones have similar problems, and finally admitting a fault does exist and giving away free…
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iMelt! Why iPads don’t like a bit of sun