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take a whiff and smell those fresh apple rumors I'm Bridget Carey and this is your sad update talk of a mini iPad is filling the meaty air once again and new details are coming from credible outlets The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg had sources saying that Apple's gearing up for a smaller iPad and it could arrive sometime this year the 7-inch tablet is the hot area for competition with a new Amazon Kindle Fire also reportedly on the way this summer and Google's latest Nexus 7 tablet this is going to be the year of the tiny tablet wars and you know what else is heating up and iPhone which started smoking in the pocket of a teenager from Finland in this security video photos you can see the iphone just instantly starts smoking from his pocket and he quickly throws it to the floor he told reporters he just bought it three months ago but this isn't the first case of an iPhone spontaneously combusting last year an iphone 4 caught fire on board a plane and it was found to be caused by a misplaced screw from a shot a repair job if you've been hankering for the Google Galaxy Nexus smartphone you gotta wait a week a US district judge has ordered a ban on selling the smartphone all because of Apple's latest patent squabble with Samsung this time it's a patent that deals with Universal Search so Google's quickly pushing out a software change to address the patent issue in order to sell the flagship phone upgrade to the next version of windows won't cost you as much as if it in the past if you have windows XP vista or seven you'll be able to upgrade to Windows 8 pro for 40 bucks but you gotta do so by the end of January otherwise it'll cost seventy dollars in stores also this cheap upgrade will include media center for free how nice of them microsoft said it was going to charge extra for media center so perhaps somewhat at microsoft's stepped up and realized that the world would go berserk over paying more just to play a DVD or CD and let's see if they still charge for media center later if you can't connect to the internet on monday it's because your computer is one of the thousands still infected with the malware called dns changer now this bug found in 2007 was redirecting computer traffic to rogue sites that illegally drove up ad clicks for money the FBI broke up the crime ring cleaned up the servers and maintain the machines as a temporary crutch to give people time to clean up their computers well as of Monday time is up and if it's not fixed your computer won't be able to pull up websites some internet providers have been offering help and you can check if you're infected and find a fix but going to DC WG org security firms like McAfee also have free tools to fix the problem that's your tech news update for today for more on the stories in today show visit cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey