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when's the last time you had a good talk with your chair I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update industry rumors have been persistent that the next iPhone will launch on September 21st but it looks like a monkey wrench may have been thrown into those plans reports from The Wall Street Journal and reuters SE electronics manufacturer sharp could be having problems making the screens for the iPhone there could be manufacturing difficulties that are delaying shipments now sharp is just one of three suppliers for Apple screams it's all very unclear how this could change launch date expectations or more likely if it will limit iPhone supply we're expecting a new family of Kindles to be announced on Thursday but images for once seemed to have leaked early the verge published French marketing photos that say the kindle paperwhite has higher contrast high-resolution integrated lighting and eight weeks of battery life if these images are the real thing it looks like this would compete with the barnes and noble nook simple touch with glowlight the backlit version of the Nook eReader that came out in April the madden NFL video game is hot every year but this year sales Trump the past versions Electronic Arts says it sold nine hundred thousand copies of NFL 13 in the first 24 hours after went on sale it's the most successful Madden launch for the xbox 360 and ps3 if you have the xbox kinect this version lets you use the microphone to speak out voice commands like hike or timeout zoom music is slowly being erased from existence microsoft is killing some features to prepare for the replacement service called xbox music which will launch later this year facebook keeps looking for new ways to make money off you this time Facebook will let advertisers target you based on your email and phone number now Facebook isn't giving out your number and email but rather it could share info about your number like if it's based in a certain area move over planking and say Tata to Tebowing because the latest internet photo meme craze is East wooding as in taking a photo with an empty chair during Clint Eastwood speech at the Republican National Convention the actor and director had a conversation with an empty chair as if it was President Obama sitting in it some thought the joke was odd and while Twitter acts fast my friends because soon the empty chair had its own parody Twitter account called invisible Obama and people use the hashtag East wooding to share photos of them talking two chairs or having a poke at the moment with Photoshop some update viewers joined in on the viral trend and shared their own East woody moments with us that's your tech news roundup for today you can read up on more details about East wooding and other stories from today on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Richard Carey