engineering. so everyone is wanting, should i upgrade to this phone? if you ve been waiting, a lot of people were waiting their two-year contract out and that s why the lines are so big. eric: what about speed? speed is super fast. now it s running lte. if i jump on the internet, like fox news.com, and just browsing the web is super fast compared to the 4 s. twice as fast as the previous iphones. you click on an article and notice how quickly it s loading. if you don t have lte in your neck of the woods, it won t be quite as fast. 199, same price point as the iphone 4 s currently is right now. and what s a great buy, people not talking about, is the iphone 4, two generations ago is now free. if you get a contract at your at and t store, verizon or sprint store, you can get an original or iphone 4 now for free, which is a huge deal in tough times. eric: what about data plans?
possible. myanmar and former prime minister, they report 651 prisoners are scheduled to be released starting today. also, the government has signed a cease fire with the current ethnic group to try to end a 63-year armed conflict. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is calling for an end to the arab league s work. they ve criticized the mission as ineffective and understaffed. there s been no letup in the fuel price protests paralyzing my gear yeah talks between the labor unions and the government ended without an agreement to restore fuel subsidies. they re threatening to stop production if the nigerian government does not reverse its position. negotiations are scheduled to resume saturday. those are the top stories. world business today starts right now. happy friday to you. welcome to world business today. i m nina dos santos in london. and i m andrew stevens in hong kong. welcome. top stories this day, apple fans in china turn angry and skuffle with police
shepard: trace gallagher in los angeles. thank you. officials at apple say they are fixing on a fix for a software glitch that s apparently been killing a lot of people s iphone batteries. the problem first cropped up in the brand new iphone 4 s and has even spread to older models now. some people claim the phones don t last through a typical work day without a recharge. apple spokesman says the software fix is due in a couple of weeks. tech blogs are reporting that apple s new voice assistance service serrie has suffered sporadic outages today but my worked fine. no word from apple on that. big developments in the legal battle over solar panels. house republicans authorizing subpoenas to the white house over a company that somehow blew half a billion dollars of taxpayer money and went bankrupt. we are live with the latest on solyndra. plus, a lot of folks are in financial trouble these days, right? the bills just never stop. so do you cut spending or work hard to make your ends meet
rick: all right. all the hype, all the buzz, at least in my house. we re talking about the latest iphone to hit the shelves and some buyers were a little bit disappointed with the new iphone 4s. arthel: but apple is trying to win back its fans with the iphone 4s. so is it worth the hype? of course, the folks at consumer reports takes it for a spin in the latest issue of consumer reports. rick: mike is here, senior electronics editor at consumer reports. always good to see you. you brought your toys with you. yes. i brought the iphone 4s that has one of the best cameras we ve seen on a smart phone to date. it s the camera has been upgraded from 5 to 8 mega pixels and takes very good pictures. rick: what about if you re taking pictures of kids and they re moving around a lot? that s my complaint? it s got blink detection a number of tools that captures kids under the perfect
jersey. that is very close to us. a lot of snow falling out there. there is also reports in connecticut coming out of there. fairfield county. ten inches of snow already. it s still only 6:47. so we re lookly going to see that snow coming down throughout the next several hours. you can see it coming down right now across southern portions of new england, upstate new york, and still snowing heavily across eastern portions of the state of pennsylvania. some of those snowflakes are going to wind down around maryland. you can still see it around the new york city area and going to continue into the overnight hours. the storm system will continue to push out by 3:00 a.m. sunday, we think it will be done here in new york city. arthel: maria, thank you very much for that update. rick: there has been so much talk about the latest and greatest apple iphone 4s, but is it all it s cracked up to be? let s see. where can i find a good italian meal? i m asking the phone. let s see. hold on one s