TUAW noticed a not-so-subtle change to the Wolfram Alpha's mobile site, which now prompts stingy iPhone jerks to just download the app already. Luckily you can kill the prompt, but then you're left with an unoptimized version of the search engine, which is a chore to use on a mobile device.

So, Wolfram isn't moving as many copies of their app as they expected (Dozens! You'll see!) and it's totally within their rights to, you know, make money. But instead of taking away the free, slightly-less-capable alternative, why not just make the paid, slightly-more-capable app remotely affordable? What's the problem with that?

Oh. [TUAW]

Documentation on the problem is still thin, and Apple hasn't issued any kind of response, but until this gets sussed out, you should probably cut back on the guest logins, lest you lose everything you've ever saved to your Mac, ever. Any new operating system has bugs, but if real—and it's starting to look that way—this one is pretty atrocious.

We'll keep an eye on this, since the more exposure it gets, the more likely people are to come forward with their own personal horror stories. Post 'em if you got 'em, in the comments. [ITWire via Neowin]

The tagline is actually advertising Nokia's "Point and Find" service, which is a sort of user- or corporate-generated phototagging system combined with a barcode tagger. Take a picture of your shoes, or a painting, or whatever, add in a link to its Wikipedia page or shopping link, and then whenever anyone snaps a photo of that item, they'll see your links. But retail companies can also tag their own products, so the system can be used for any item in their stores, and if worse comes to worst, you can always just scan a 2D barcode.

The slogan idea is kind of a ripoff of those eBay ads from three years ago that used the tagline "Find Your It." Unfortunately, whoever decided on "TAG YOUR IT" evidently did not go to elementary school in an English-speaking country.

The service itself isn't nearly as useful as, say, a barcode scanner, and relying on users to supply those links (instead of just going all augmented reality with Google or Wikipedia) is sort of cheating in my book, but the service isn't really the point here. The point is that there's a box of macaroni and cheese that says TAG YOUR IT on it. [Point and Find]

It's not especially strange for a company to renege on an unannounced offer or a minor typo, but that's not quite what this was. It was an offer couched in specific, deliberate language, and that was featured it two full, publicly-available information pages. In other words, it had been devised and considered—this wasn't a data input mistake.

That said, the fact that it only applied to new subscribers would've caused a PR problem for Sprint, who would be effectively penalizing their most loyal (read: preexisting) customers with the offer. And the two conflicting listed end dates did seem to indicate that maybe it wasn't fully baked. Since the deal was listed on their website, Sprint says they'll honor the service rebate to anyone who signed up for a contract in the last few hours, but after that, it's closed. But hey, at least they're thinking about $100 Pres, right? Right?

Sorry Sprint, I've got nothin' for you. [AllThingsD]

You can watch the whole insincere deletion process play out above, but here's a handy guide so you can follow along at home. Turn off your device radio and Wi-Fi connection for maximum OH GOD:

1.) Find a message with a memorable subject line, and delete it.
2.) Go to your trash, and remove the message from there.
3.) Check whatever IMAP folders may be listed on your device—this works with POP too—and make sure your message is really not
there.
4.) Flick over to the main Spotlight search screen, and search for the subject line on that message that shouldn't exist
5.) Be shocked and confused when you find that not only can you see the subject line in a simple search—you can still view the entire message. Your email-based illicit affairs are ruined.

I've tested this, and it works. I even restarted my iPod for good measure, and the message was still in the index, and still accessible by search, despite not appearing anywhere in the main Mail interface. As far as I can tell, there is no way to completely delete emails from iPhone OS 3.0, which isn't just strange, it's a disastrous security flaw.

Still, a few things don't really add up here. The video submitter says he can find emails from months ago, but surely this would result in creeping storage consumption, and has to stop sometime. I mean, doesn't it? And even if these messages are just hiding out in some secret folder or something, and can be deleted by some obscure method, this isn't how a mail client should behave, at all.

Try this yourselves and see if you can find any clues as to what's going on here: I'm as alarmed as I am stumped.

UPDATE: An internal tipster has provided us with proof that Apple is fully aware of this issue and will probably be including a fix in iPhone OS 3.1. Additionally, there are a number of ways to delete the messages from the index—for some, waiting works; for me, even restarting didn't—but the fact remains that deleted emails are left, for some time, fully accessible.

Richard from 148Apps has this workaround, which seems to work fine:

From my messing around with email, the message actually disappears after viewing it a few times. At first I thought the email disappeared after deleting it a few times but I simply viewed the messages about 3 or 4 times and it disappeared.

UPDATE 2: Also, current 3.1 betas don't seem to suffer from this bug, so yeah, a fix is essentially imminent. [CultOfMac]

On a related note, it's exciting to find out there's another company besides Komatsu that makes trucks this big. Hey, Liebherr, do you have review units?

UPDATE: More on the excavator.—Thanks, GitEmSteveDave!

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A former HAM radio enthusiast and Pittsburgh local, Tom Stapleton, decoded the message and posted the gaffe on YouTube, and it clearly shows the tower's misspelling. He said he noticed the problem when he casually looked up and saw the signal broadcasting the letter K, which he remembered well as it's the first letter of his sister's name. Too bad "Pittsburgh" doesn't contain the letter K. Representatives of the tower's owners could not say how long the tower had been advertising Pitetsbkrrh. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

What's the most embarrassing thing you've done while walking and Twittering about how that stupid barista yelled at you for using your phone at the counter and the coffee isn't really even that great anyway and crapnuggets I ran past the 140 character limit but I need to change the song since I've already heard Kings of Leon today goddammit stupid shuffle? [WGN via Consumerist]

Yeah I broke my screen. It's taken some spills before, but this time it landed right on the corner and got a nasty case of shattered glass on the front. There were a lot of tiny shards that I had to brush off, but it still works. I got a screen cover for it, and it's ugly as sin.

But hey, it's still workable, and with a new model almost definitely coming out on or around July 10th, I'm not about to go buy a new phone right now. So it looks like I'm stuck with this one for about two and a half months. Things could be worse, I guess.

How many of you are dealing with busted-ass phones because of your lack of coordination?

The language added on March 30 to AT&T's wireless data service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It was brought to our attention and we have since removed it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Raise your hand if this BS smells like roses to you.

Rob Bushway had only just taken his Kindle 2 out of the box when he dropped it about three feet onto a solid hardwood floor. The result, as you can see, is a persistent blotch in the upper-right-hand side of the screen. In the spirit of eBook/e-ink evangelism, I feel like we should call this an eStain, or an eFold, but it does pretty much ruin the brand-new device. Luckily for Rob, Amazon Amazon's partner, Service Net Solutions, has (rather tellingly) included provisions for one accidentally destroyed unit in each extended warranty, so he should have a free replacement unit by the end of the week.

Generally speaking, extended warranties are a terrible value. But consider just how easy it looks like it might be to damage this slim new Kindle, $70 to protect $360 doesn't seem like a terrible deal. [Slashgear]

Burdick was just waiting for his cruise ship to arrive, when he decided to watch the game via his Slingbox (which streams television though an internet signal). Having an unlimited data plan, he thought everything would be peachy-keen. Unfortunately, he connected to the ship's network and, as a result, ran up international roaming charges.

When Burdick complained about the charges despite never leaving the country, AT&T offered to initially reduce the bill down to $6,000. Eventually, through some media attention, the bill was reduced to $220 in charges. Oh yeah—the score was 27-23. [Chicago Sun-Times via The Register]

With under three minutes left and just after Larry Fitzgerald's heroic comeback(ish) touchdown for the Cardinals, the video feed abruptly switched to a scene from stablemate channel Club Jenna, treating viewers to the sight of seemingly omnipresent porn guy Evan Stone swinging his junk around like a maniac. This interlude lasted about 30 seconds.

Comcast told the Arizona Daily Star that engineers have been "working throughout the night" to figure out what happened, but haven't yet come up with an explanation. It could have been a simple case of human error, but given just how wrong it all went, I'd put my money on a disgruntled outgoing employee. Video of the event below, obviously NSFW. [AZStar, image from Getty. —Thanks, Jason and Nic!]

Video courtesy of ComcastSuperBowlPorn.com. WARNING: THIS IS ACTUAL PORN, WITH WIENER

I imagine they're ducking eye-laser beams over in the Bloomberg newsroom, being volleyed all the way from Cupertino. More at: [Gawker]

Found on Time. Think you can do better? You probably can. Hit the comments and give it your best shot. [Time via BGR]