Apple stores across the world are facing possible demonstrations against allegedly poor labor ethics. Apple’s manufacturing partners in China have faced a lot of bad press for allegedly poor work environments in factories building Apple devices.

Siri is rumored to be getting support for new languages. The new languages rumored to be coming include Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Russian language.

A new survey of recent iPhone 4S buyers has found that 21% are opting for the 64GB version. The survey also found a significant percentage of them are coming from other operating systems.

So far, a half million iPhone 4S users have taken advantage of the new 4S jailbreak. The jailbreak was a long time coming since the A5 processor was so hard to crack.

Samsung’s first patent suit over 3G tech against Apple has been shot down in Germany. The suit centered on alleged Apple infringement on 3G/UMTS patents that Samsung owns.

A new jailbreak tool for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is incoming. The tool is called the Coronal A5 tool and it will let the user hack their device with the A5 processor inside.

After the Chinese launch issues that went on at the iPhone 4S launch with eggs thrown and violence one analyst said the violence was in part Apples fault. Canalys’ Nicole Peng said that Chinese fans don’t want to have to wait for new gadgets.

NASA has launched a cool new app for the iPhone. The app is called Mars Images and shares photos from the Opportunity rover as soon as NASA gets them.

If you have the GTA III game on your iPhone and are jailbroken you might like this. It has been found that the mods used on the PC version of the GTA III game will work on the iOS and Android versions.

Apple design chief Jonathan Ive has been knighted. As a British citizen he can now go by Sir Jonathan.

The patent has some snazzy line art with a stick figure walking up to the gadget. It outlines that the detection would look at skin tone, location of eyes and mouth compared to a reference image, and match the face with one in an image.

The presence detection could turn the device on as soon as you walk up. Together the device would turn itself off and on and log you into your user account just by you walking up to it. That sounds really cool.

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A new rumor is floating around that a completely new iPhone will be surfacing in the fall of 2012. The rumors point to a new smartphone with an aluminum back more like the iPad.

The reports from Christmas Day are in and apparently iOS devices had record setting activations. On Christmas Day alone there were 6.8 million activations that day alone.

The Apple App Store has over 500,000 apps now. I wonder how many of those are crap?

Steve Jobs is to be honored in Budapest with a bronze statue. The statue will be erected in Graphisoft Park to honor Jobs’ leadership and tech contributions.

I would assume that Apple and Android will have their own ratings system. Apple already puts apps into categories and if the app is too mature in theme, it simply won’t allow the app on the site. In other news, the sales ban that Apple has had on Samsung tablets in Australia has come to an end.

The sales injunction in Australia has been overthrown in appeal. The court went so far to call the original sales ban “clearly wrong.” I wonder if Samsung will sue Apple for lost sales at this point.

Apple approved a subscription game service a couple days ago for Big Fish Games. Apple has now turned around and taken the game service down.

A cool Steve Jobs exhibit has opened at the US Patent Office Museum. The display looks at some of the patents Jobs field over the years.

Belkin is getting a new device ready for iPhone users called the LiveAction Camera Remote. It will let you take photos and video with your iPhone remote and uses Bluetooth for connectivity.

Some lost Steve Jobs interviews from 1995 have surfaced that will be shown in select Landmark theaters around the country. The interviews are from a PBS special that looked at the computer industry and Silicon Valley that were never aired.

Apple announced its fiscal Q4 2011 earnings and it missed estimates by a bit. Apple blames the heavy rumors about the iPhone 5 for the missed estimates.

C Spire has announced that it will be offering the iPhone 4S in the coming weeks. This small private carrier will offer unlimited data.

Apple has announced that it has sold over 4 million iPhone 4S smartphones on the first weekend it was available. That number will only continue to grow as the 4S hits other countries.

Samsung is asking courts to block the sales of the iPhone 4S in Japan and Australia. Samsung is naturally claiming patent infringement.

Samsung is seeking a ban on the sale of the iPhone 4S in France and Italy. Samsung is citing a pair of 3G WCDMA patents that it holds as the reason for the request.

If you missed the iPhone 4S keynote yesterday don’t fret. The video is now online for you to check out here.

A rumor has surfaced from unnamed sources that claim the new iPhone to be unveiled today is lacking 4G. Some of the earlier rumors have claims the iPhone 5 would be packing 4G inside.

According to some, the big topic at the iPhone event today will be iOS 5 rather than the iPhone hardware. I expect that the new iPhone will be the bigger thing of interest.