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2011-02-14来源:Cnet

It`s Wednesday, February 2nd, I‘m Mark Licea, and it’s time to get loaded.

News Corp‘s iPad exclusive newspaper is being shown today. It’s called The Daily. And at the time of this filming we don’t know much. It does have a website, although the focus of this newspaper is to be optimized for the iPad. The Daily will have 6 sections with original content every day. We hear that readers can subscribe for 99 cents a week. We will fill you in on the rest tomorrow.

It seems like internet access is back up in Egypt. Five days ago the country disconnected itself from the web, but Egyptian websites that were unreachable before now seemed to be up in running. Two of the country`s largest telecommunication carriers are now accessible online, and the website of the Egyptian parliament is working, although the site‘s last update was on January 24th. Bloggers from the Egyptian Twitter Oddy also confirmed that the web, along with Blackberries and mobile services are back on.

Google Maps 5.1 for Android will now let you to check into a location using latitude. Latitude is a Google service that shares your location with friends. Now Android users have the option to get reminders to check into a place once latitude finds where you are. You can also set it to check into specific places automatically, and Latitude will also check you out automatically once you leave. You can, of course, customize privacy settings to control who sees your info.

Comcast and Time Warner announced the deal that lets you to stream live cable TV content onto your mobile devices. Smart phones, PCs and the iPads will support the service, and networks like cnn ,HLN, Turner Classic Movies and the Cartoon Network will be included. The deal is an add-on to the paid TV Everywhere service that lets Cable subscribers watch on the main content. Live TV Streaming will just be a new feature. Comcast`s streaming service, X-finity TV also updated their iPad apps that let you watch movies and TV shows on the tablet. HBO Stars, ShowTime and CinemaX are on board.

Google Street View is taking you to the museum. The service is called Art Project, and lets you view from several museums across the world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and The National Gallery in London are just a few, and there are 17 museums total. You can walk through the halls or choose to learn more about a particular art piece that strikes your interest. Right now over 1,000 images of artwork are available, and Google plans to add more museums and artworks to the project.

And Flickr made a big booboo. According to a photo blog in Zurich, the site which is owned by Yahoo, accidentally deleted his paid account by mistake, removing his 4,000 photos. And now the site says they can get them back. Luckily he says the original files are saved, but all links pointing to Flickr blog are now dead. The company responded saying that they would restore his account, and add 4-year a free pro to make up for their error. I think Yahoo can probably do better than that.

That`s your news for the day. I`m Mark Licea, Cnet.com, and you`ve just been loaded.