Expensive high-tech digital radios used by the FBI, Secret Service, and Homeland Security are designed so poorly that they can be jammed by a $30 children's toy. A GirlTech IMME is a pink instant-messaging device marketed to pre-teen girls (but it is a lot cheaper to use than a cellphone), and as mentioned above, can be used to disrupt sensitive radio communications used by every major federal law enforcement agency. This is the epitome of defective design and it could be quite worrying should criminals find out how to make a jammer out of such an innocent device. However, this can be prevented by turning encryption on, which it has also been found that many federal agents don't do.
In other technology news, Operating Systems Solutions, a Florida-based company, recently sued Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleging that the Mac maker's desktop operating system violates a patent it owns for quickly booting an OS. However, Apple won a preliminary injunction in a German court banning the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from every nation in the European Union except for the Netherlands (27 - 1 = 26 nations in all).
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