Is there any way to turn off the App Store app update notification? As in make the little red circle with the number in it go away? I updated one of my apps, and the update makes the app crash. I even tried updating it a second time thinking the first update attempt was a fluke in the download, but it still crashes. So I deleted the app and reinstalled it without it updating, and now the little red circle on the App Store icon is back telling me to update. If the update is going to make the app crash, then I obviously don't want to update. Is there a way to tell the little red circle to go f**k itself and get the hell off my springboard without updating? Or will it even go away on its own if I ignore it long enough? Any wisdom and guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks!

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=49286416796c7abf00fc964dmaxX=218maxY=389" border="0" alt="blackberry-storm-limited-availability.jpg" title="blackberry-storm-limited-availability.jpg" width="218" height="389" /RIM's new BlackBerry Storm is a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/live-blackberry-storm-twitter-rimm-"proving to be popular with some people/a -- many Verizon Wireless stores a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/blackberry-storm-lines"sold out/a of their first batches yesterday. But while Verizon initially promised quick Internet orders, shipment for new orders has been delayed to "by Dec. 15." This is potentially bad news for RIM, whose third quarter ends Nov. 29. (See below for details.)/p pWhy the delay? a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/blackberry-storm-shipments-delayed-due-to-apparent-version-glitc/"Engadget reports/a that Verizon is being forced to downgrade the phones in its inventory to an older version of RIM's operating system to potentially avoid a "security glitch," which was first alleged by a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/11/21/the-real-story-behind-the-verizon-blackberry-storm-os/"mobile blog Boy Genius Report/a. (We don't know if this is true. We're checking with Verizon and will update if we hear back.)/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/blackberry-storm-shipments-delayed-due-to-apparent-version-glitc/"Engadget/a: Supposedly the Storm was set to launch with OS version 4.7.0.82, but due to a last-minute security glitch every last handset had to be downgraded to .65 -- a surely time-consuming task that resulted in many fewer handsets in-store and online for release. Right now Verizon is indicating that orders placed before noon on November 21 should ship on the 25th, those received after noon will ship on December 5, and anything received on November 22 or later will not ship before December 15. That's close enough to a certain major holiday to make BlackBerry-loving kids of all ages nervous./p pNervous indeed -- and something that, if true, could potentially negatively impact RIM's Q3 results -- the quarter that ends Nov. 29 -- and Q4 guidance. We assume RIM's Q3 emdevice/em shipments are at lower risk because, in theory, the phones have already been sold to Verizon, whose staff is tinkering with them. (Though it's possible Verizon's orders in Q3 and Q4 will be lower while they can't ship phones they already have.)/p pMore important: If thousands of people can't buy new Storms until next month, they can't sign up to be new BlackBerry emservice/em subscribers until next month -- which is part of RIM's Q4. Which could negatively impact RIM's Q3 subscriber growth. How much? We don't know. But it's definitely not emgood/em news for RIM or Verizon./p pAnd if the delay extends further into the Christmas buying season, it's even worse. Why? Besides delaying Storm purchases, it could push on-the-fence buyers to consider other phones, such as Apple's (AAPL) iPhone./p pThat could be happening already. We've seen some a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=1018483140page=2q=storm+iphone"anecdotal evidence/a -- like a href="http://twitter.com/MStokes/statuses/1018423941"multiple/a a href="http://twitter.com/onefoodguy/statuses/1018483140"Twitter/a a href="http://twitter.com/anivus/statuses/1018287199"conversations/a -- panning the Storm's push-down touchscreen, which you have to press down hard to type with -- and dismissing the phone's threat to Apple. (We a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/rim-blackberry-storm-review"think it's a decent phone/a, but we personally find the keypad more gimmicky than helpful.)/p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="../../2008/11/blackberry-storm-lines"BlackBerry Storm Lines Boost RIM Shares/abr /a href="../../2008/11/rim-blackberry-storm-review"RIM's BlackBerry Storm Is No iPhone, But Should Sell Well/abr /a href="../../2008/11/live-blackberry-storm-twitter-rimm-"LIVE: BlackBerry Storm Twitter/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Z3Y6isDf6LqjqNZKGypsRlbGbcI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Z3Y6isDf6LqjqNZKGypsRlbGbcI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=mkDMwnvk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=mkDMwnvk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=G7d97k72"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=hU4RwHA6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=YNb5OElZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=YNb5OElZ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=pxl6eEAO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=OFz4HOPP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=g2K8htIP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ESuC8xhu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/SPpgbZ_5jog" height="1" width="1"/

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