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Much has been reported in the media about the problems with the Maps app that Apple rolled out with the release of iOS 6. The early reporting was “anecdotal, apocalyptic or often just plain wrong but very little of it addressed the question of what consumers thought of Apple’s new Map app,” reports Blumenthals (www. http://blumenthals.com), which specializes in web hosting and computing repair.

What do they think? It would seem for most of them the iPhone Map App is a non issue.

Apple, Nokia, Google and Microsoft will for the change in patent laws today at a “UN confab on whether patent law is stifling innovation,” reports “The Register” (http://macte.ch/ycBnG).

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) arranged the meeting to assess the effectiveness of allowing companies to sort out the licensing of patents crucial to building industry-standard gear, the article adds. The companies involved are expected to offer these essential designs on “reasonable and non-discriminatory terms,”

In a press release the World Wide Web Consortitum (W3C), in collaboration with Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and “others” (including Apple), has announced the alpha release of Web Platform Docs (docs.webplatform.org).

Taiwan wants Apple to blur a map image of its new US$1.4 billion early warning radar station that can detect aircraft and missiles coming from as far as western China, reports the “Associated Press” (http://macte.ch/AUujY). The image, on Maps in iOS 6, was purportedly taken more than a year ago.

As noted by “MacRumors” (www.macrumors.com), the Lodys Group (www.lodsys.com) has published two blog posts regarding its patent dispute with Apple.