Tech blog Gizmodo is lobbying Apple to restore the iPad's hardware orientation lock, . And they've chosen to do it in the ever-effective form of an online petition. On Twitter and Facebook. Because if there's one way to reach Steve Jobs, it's social networking.

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This I guarantee: even if this new iPad newspaper by Rupert Murdoch gets an event with a Steve Jobs keynote, more people will remember the day The Beatles showed up on iTunes. If only because they complained about it. A lot.

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Let this be a lesson to you, mortals! Even when Steve Wozniak makes things up, like Apple supposedly acquiring speech recognition makers , the ramifications can be . Nuance's stock shot up 3.5 percent in one day on the news. I would suggest it's high time we stop listening to Woz, but then where am I going to find a sucker to unload all this Segway paraphernalia onto?