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what's happening Brian song here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple now I know we were gone last week but we're making it up to it a little longer show and our can of chicken noodle soup giveaway following is not a paid advertisement for Campbell Soup see awesome totally worth in all right now to the stories we know Apple posted record ipad sales numbers selling over 3 million units in its first weekend and that didn't even include pre-orders but it's not all roses for the Cupertino kids overseas there have been complaints by regulators about the term 4G because the networks and countries like Australia home of the very cute tree-dwelling koala use different frequency bands and are not compatible Apple's now offering full refunds to our mates down under that feel like they were being misled and treated like didgeridoo do now European countries like Sweden and the UK are also investigating the 4g fracas because of their strict regulation of advertising claims but that's not all there were all the stories about the ipad still not being fully charged all the way even when it showed it was 100% charged but whatever you read and no matter what apple says guess what you're still getting 10-plus hours of the promised battery life so that's a non-issue and let's not forget about the overheating hysteria so the new iPad runs a little warmer but that's it it doesn't run any hotter than a laptop and it's another non issue but Apple known for spinning things their way should have taken advantage of this golden opportunity just think about it the new iPads heat feature allows you to do things you've never done before like cook a warm meal wherever you are on a lonely day in the streets or save you time as a portable iron for that all important job interview see you could have done it but you drop the ball Apple now when a follow-up to the foxconn story the fair labor association finished their audit and says the manufacturer had violations in working hours and compensation but they plan on fixing the situation the report says sixty percent of workers were not being paid enough to meet their basic needs and work weeks that hit as high as 60 hours per week will be scaled back to 49 hours now in other news a new study says eighty-seven percent of iphone 4s owners use Siri monthly not daily or even weekly but monthly which really isn't that much when you think about it there's already a few class-action lawsuits against Apple claiming that Siri doesn't work as advertised but you might not care if you're a sports fan if it actually works ESPN has released its developer api's for accessing sports scores to strategic partners and as part of the ABC disney relationship that's very close to Apple report from apple insider claims they are ready to add sports scores into the sea remix so go and say where your fans will only need to ask Siri how much are the Warriors losing by tonight all right let's take a quick break to check out an app of the week from my man Jason Parker and it's a good just about everyone who has a smartphone knows about angry birds rovio released Angry Birds Space a game that takes the same winning concept but adds interesting twists with gravity fields asteroids and new birds to experiment with in an entirely outer space environment the game starts you off easy so you can get used to the new concept of gravity fields now when you fire a bird towards a planet or asteroid the bird will go into orbit around the object within the gravity field sometimes giving you several chances to hit your targets as you progress through the game the levels get significantly more difficult with multiple gravity fields asteroids that block your path and other interesting objects and obstacles that require some thought before you fling your bird there are 60 levels to play through and some will definitely have you hitting the reset button numerous times to get that perfect shot fortunately I'm particularly difficult levels you have the option to use the new space eagle the ultra powerful eagle in the original angry birds game is pretty much meant you could beat any level but this new space eagle creates a black hole once you tap the screen and has the explosive power to take out a large area of the level it's still possible to miss some pigs though depending on where you place the space eagle just like the original Angry Birds you can get up to 3 stars based on how efficiently you can take out all the pigs so it's still important to try to get them all in one shot another new addition comes in the form of bonus levels that are nod to classic video games hitting a randomly placed hidden golden egg steroid is a wormhole that sends you to a special level the level i encountered seemed to resemble classic super mario games once cleared you'll take the wormhole right back to where you left off it's important to note that unlike spin-offs angry birds rio and angry birds seasons while fun we're mostly about putting a new theme in some extra levels on the original angry birds space is a completely new game with new birds new levels to figure out and some secret levels you can warp 2 it's easy to recommend everyone tap this app immediately angry birds space goes for 99 cents for the phone versions on both iOS and Android and 299 for the HD version on both as well thanks Jason um maybe next time you could smile for me at the end you know like okay all right now some cool patent use involving Siri Apple could be interested in bringing Siri to the mac by pairing it with an iPhone a new patent filing called voice control system from the big a describes a remote device communicatively coupled to an electronic device that runs Siri now this would keep the voice processing exclusive to the phone no matter where you are and the phone's constant data connection would allow the speech functionality to always work when it pings its servers also if you're wondering what's happening with the Apple TV stuff a new report from research group csla says it will be coming out in 2013 now right now you can pick any day or year you want but not everyone can be nostra Tongass all right now we know not all these patents come to the market but another one for apple's advanced TV remote describes a process where you can take a photo of your current remote that's then sent to the iCloud for analysis then it sends a virtual copy of your remote back to your phone with all its functionality it's like magic then you'll be able to control your current TV with this new apple remote mind below all right to the quick bites a new digit times rumor claims the new 15-inch MacBook Pro will be ramping up production in April but the 13-inch model will be ramping up in June the April timing falls in line with the availability of Intel's new ivy bridge chip line with a launch for sometime this summer and if you're one of the many people who live through the iphone floors antennagate and you never took advantage of apple's bumper case offer webpage called iphone for settlement com is where you can collect a hefty fifteen dollar settlement that's a full meal at boston market with those little tasty good moves mm-hmm my gosh that mac and cheese on the side now this applies to people who bought their phone before februari 17 2012 and you'll have until August twenty-eighth to file your claim but if you guys are looking to collect a big time from Apple just walk into an apple store literally an 83 year old Evelyn paaswell walked into the glass door of an Apple store in Manhattan Long Island and broke her nose she's now suing apple for 1 million dollars now she claims she still has great eyesight saying I may be elderly but I'm very active and I'm still driving to note to self stay away from Long Island roads now I know this has happened to some of you before but come on walking into a glass door at an apple store who does that who is that stupid pay attention walk with your head up it's actually very easy alright that's going to do it for this week's show send us your emails to the apple byte at cnet com and if you want that can of chicken soup will send it to you i'm brian Tong thanks for watching we'll catch you next time for another bite of the Apple here she coming oh