It seems the USA is alone in the world on this one. I'm surprised someone like the UN isn't stepping in and stopping American companies from buying out Israeli companies like this. A right diplomatic nightmare brewing I feel.

A south-bridge? I haven't seen one of those in a computer for 10 years now. Controllers are built on to CPU dies these days with direct connections. North-bridges are a thing of the past too and I'm sure Sony will not be using them.

You should try it on OS X and Linux. It is not really worth using apart from in testing.

Yes, let's more than double the price by including a 500GB SSD.

Why not sell full h.264 converters in countries other than USA, Australia, New Zealand and the other handful of countries that have such software patents?

Bring the datacentres to the UK or other EU countries.

At the same time Mozilla set up bank accounts and trading addresses in Europe and release a browser with h.264 support. Companies get away with it for tax, so why not for patents?

Used to use on it iOS, until it routed all data through an insecure VPN.

Finally, a face to my best friend and who I always ask to marry me.

It's a known routing bug. Currently being fixed. Hope so soon, Google Maps will be using Waze routing services soon.

First time I used Apple Maps it wanted to make me cross a river, there was no bridge. It gets my home postcode wrong by about 10 miles. Seems to not know about central reservations in many places as well, wants you to go through fencing. Sticking with Waze for now.

Same is with the iTunes store in many territories. Guess you'll have to buy the box set, a steal at $210

Meanwhile Apple can profit from the interest. It may be pennies on this single credit note, but increase that to tens or hundreds of thousand people and Apple are sure to profit handsomely.

Whoever pays $22.99 for half a season, or any other TV show, when it is available on Netflix is beyond me. Don't get me started on bluray box sets.

Sold everywhere here in the UK too, and supermarkets like Asda (Walmart) and Tesco sell iPhones and have their own MNVOs. Tesco being one of the cheapest and offer iPhones on 12 month contracts.

iPads are sold almost in any shop that sells electrical equipment. Even my local Spar, a small convenience store sells them.

But if you go to so much effort and have the knowledge to set up a VPN on your mobile device, surely you'd know to go to the giffgaff site and switch this blocking off anyway.

You can switch off the blocking if you so wish on the giffgaff web site.

News at 11.