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2010-11-17来源:和谐英语

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It's Wednesday November 10th, I'm Natalie D Contel. It's time to  get loaded.

Windows phone 7 launched this week, now we're seeing on the interesting apps from the new phone rolled out. Most notably are the slim box app that lets you stream content from your home cable box, and a Google app that lets you bypass the default 'Bing' search. Early reviews are that phone is really great, so we have to wait and see what consumers think.

Google announced instant preview on Teusday. It's a feature that lets you preview websites without fully committing to the click. So you don't have to visit the site to see that it may not be what you had wanted, and say a preview through a magnifing glass within a fraction of a second. You gotta love google saving your time second by second.

And you won't be searching for anything on Ask.com any more, the company is shutting down its search business and letting go of its engineers. Instead, they will focus on developping their online question and answer service, which I suppose is still search but not in the traditional sense. Kind of sad, I used to use when it was askjeeves.com, poor jeeve's time is tough. We gotta let you go.

Apple has reportedly bought wireless headphone maker Wigear, so far this is not confirmed. But reports are that this happened two months ago. Wi-Gear designed headphones that connected to iPods and iPhones, their bluetooth, they were able to control music player at up to 40 feet away.

And very cool, Youtube app is now available for Android and lets you control your google TV and the Youtube vedios you play there. You sign into your Yutube app and then select the vedios you want to watch on the phone. And they will play on your big screen. It's kind of like Apple air-play that will soon works with Apple TV and iPhone. Very cool, but then again, you do need a TV that has Google TV.

AT&T users can now get their mobile apps with GetJar. GetJar is like the itunes apps store for non-iPhones. There are over 75,000 apps in the GetJar store and they run on about 50 AT&T phones. Obviously, the iphone is not one of them.

When Research In Motion throw its tablet into the market, the device will cost less than 500 dollars. RIM CEO said this in an interview with Bloomberg. The 7 inch Blackberry play book is due out in first quater of 2011.

And finally, your job may be protected even if you say terrible things about your boss on facebook, A woman in Connecticut is involved in a legal case that challenged her right to do this without losing her job. The National Labor Relations Board said that this is her right, and that facebook while is just like the water cooler you stand around and discuss your job. A hearing on the case is said for January 25th.

Those are your headlines for today, I will see you tomorrow. I'm Nateria D Conte for CNet.com and you have just been loaded.

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