Google may want to create its own version of Twitter and NFL is coming to Facebook and you
can use a new social network to create the next big thing in donuts. It’s Tuesday, February 9th
and I’m Natali Del Conte and it’s time to get loaded.
Google maybe launching a micro blogging platform resides in your Gmail. When really call this
the twitter killer but it does seem to be very twitter like. This new feature recapitalized on your
status updates in your Google chat but it would then create a stream of those updates so that you
could follow along like you do on twitter. Yahoo did something like this last year with mail but
obviously that has not killed twitter this could launch as early as this week. You are seen to be
able to play Madden on Facebook, I am of course referring to the Madden MFL football video
game series. An EA sport is going to create a version of the game for Facebook but it obviously
won’t be quite as involved as the console version. PayPal service has been temporarily
suspended and the funds requested through PayPal have been reverse while this hold is in place.
It’s apparently do to business partners and stock holders who have questions about the service.
Google has dropped the recovery fee for the Nexus on from $350 to $150 when it was still $350
that meant that can cost up to $500 to give it back if you decide that you don’t want it because
the carrier also charges up to $175 for early termination. Google has dropped the fee but if
you’re upgrading your service you may still have to pay a $50 equipment recovery fee. The
company also open the costumer service phone line where you can talk to a real person, this was
the previous complain of Nexus one users that they couldn’t get anyone on the phone for help.
Now you can call 88848 Nexus between 7am and 10pm eastern for help. FourSquare has to get
another partnership this one with Zagat the high in restaurant rating service. This means you can
find and check in to your fancier restaurants and even earn a foodie badge in major cities such as
San Francisco and Chicago. Just last weeks FourSquare announced the deal with Bravo for a
similar location base fund, they seemed to be on a partnership tear lately.
MySpace is experimenting with audio advertisement inside MySpace music so when you land on
artist page you will get 30 seconds of an ad that will play before the artist playlists start up.
Unfortunately you can’t click this away or skip them like you can a banner add but you do only
have to listen to one every 100 songs or so small price to pay this three music I supposed.
Chinese law enforcement has announced the data is crackdown on an open hacker training camp
that recruited thousands of budding hackers. The grouped provided and training to would be an
attackers, most analyst that this crackdown is in response to Google’s much published hacking.
The arrest and seizures on equipment however don’t seem to have that much to do with the
hackers that originally attack Google. If you think you have good taste you might want to enter
Dunkin Donuts, donut creation contest. If your donut is tastier or more creative than the other
submissions you could win $12,000. Dunkin Donuts did this last year but this year the contest is
more social you can save your creations in the My Donut section. download versions for your
desktop or social networks and then link your page over your social networks like Facebook and
Twitter if you’ve got an idea head on over to dunkindonuts.com/donut and I wouldn’t suggest
copy in the one that I made for this demo because I don’t think a pumpkin donut was strawberry
frosting is a winner. That are your headlines for today, I will see you tomorrow. Thank you for
watching, I’m Natali Del Conte we seen that TV and you just been loaded.
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