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and the gold medal for most complaints about olympics coverage goes to Twitter I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update this year's NBC broadcast of the Olympics may offer the best streaming technology yet for watching the games online but NBC has come under fire from critics for not being good enough in today's instant news world cable subscribers will they can log into the NBC website or use the app to stream live events without any commentary but sometimes we need that commentary because I'm no expert in gymnastics scoring critics have said that loading the streams on apps can also be problematic at times but since primetime is more profitable well the best matches are tape-delayed hours after the news of who won is spread across social media and tape delay has always been a complaint for the games but our culture now is so engulfed in social media more than ever before and were used to getting our news instantly so much so that people have begun mocking the delay on twitter with hashtag NBC fail and the count NBC delayed which post breaking news of years old olympic events others have posted their methods of getting around NBC and accessing BBC's live coverage from pirated feeds but even though more complaints are being voiced nielsen reports that this year's primetime broadcast has more viewers than beijing did four years ago there's been another tech complaint of the Olympics apparently there are so many people tweeting and posting from their phones that the infrastructure in London cannot handle the volume and it's interfering with the transmission of data and television commentators can't get information so the International Olympic Committee is asking those attending to cool it on the texting if possible in other news Apple announced that its latest operating system version called mountain lion has set a sales record it's been downloaded over 3 million times in the first four days of availability September is looking to be a busy month for Apple the blog I'm or has heard from trusted sources that Apple will announce the iphone 5 and the new iPad Mini on September 12th and will go on sale nine days later on September 21st we've heard many September reports before so there could be some truth to this Apple and Samsung been waging a patent war around the globe for the past 17 months but the US trial has just begun Apple aims to convince a jury that Samsung copied Apple's technology and Samsung well they're making the case that the iphone and ipad would not have been possible to develop without its technology this trial could last for weeks and it's possible the outcome could stifle legitimate competition and that'll be felt to all of us in our wallets that your tech news update for today for more on the stories mentioned in the show you can head on over to cnet com / update and many thanks to Jeff Bakalar for filling in while I was away from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey