Apparently Apple doesn’t like bad news. A thread on Apple’s support forums about Consumer Reports bad review of the iPhone 4 has been deleted.

Some of the newer smartphones are in short supply. With the Droid X coming out this week, it looks to have a far more open market than it would if the EVO 4G and Droid Incredible were available.

Android devices are popular. And, you can even build your own apps for them. This article includes a short video showing how the App Inventor works.

Social networks hold threats for the naive and unwary. Those who pushed for protections for children have won a dubious battle with Facebook to include a “panic button”. The button is not installed by default, a child has to select to install it.

The Gravity 3 slider phone offers a QWERTY keyboard, 11-hour battery life, and 3G in a 4.3 ounce package. As offered through T-Mobile, the Gravity 3 uses the same circular menu used in the Gravity 2.

Currently Apple charges $1.99 to download a TV show to your device. But sources are saying the new Apple TV set-top box will offer 99-cent TV episodes that can be streamed instead of downloaded.

China has renewed Google’s license for the next year. The Chinese attached conditions to the renewal which may, or may not, affect you directly.

Maybe it’s that they’re running out of people to sign up. Or, maybe its the result of all the controversy over privacy issues. It now looks like the Facebook “fad” may be fading.

The Aspire 1825PT has a swiveling display panel, Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and 4GB of RAM. This review of Acer’s touchscreen notebook includes test results comparing it to other notebooks.

It appears there are two parts to the iPhone 4 reception problem. One is a firmware issue, to be addressed by a patch, the second is a grounding issue due to contact with human skin.