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2011-03-07来源:CNET

It's Wednesday, February 23rd. I'm Wilson Tang and it's time to get loaded.

Doodle 4 Google is a contest where children can unleash their creativity and maybe win a little cash at the same time.But Google yet again has found itself in some privacy trouble.The initial parental consent form asks for the last four digits of a student's social security number and their city of birth.With that information, it would be relatively easy to figure out a youngster's complete social security number.A Google spokesperson however says it uses the information to stop duplicate entries and to ensure that all applicants are legal US residents.Google assures that it is not storing security numbers.

OK, yesterday, we reported that the iPad 2 could be delayed until June, but now the word is that it could be as early as next week.Media invitations for big launches like these tend to go out on short notice.Once the Cnet invites come in, we will let you know.

Amazon announced that Amazon prime customers can now stream more than 5,000 movies and TV shows for free. Again, this is only for Amazon prime members that pay the annual 79 dollar fee for Amazon perks-like-free shipping and now free movies.Customers will be able to watch their free streams on Macs, window machines, roku boxes and other Internet-connected devices

China now has an official government search engine and it's called Panguso.It'll compete with Baidu for the NO1 search engine spot in the country.Remember how China and Google had it out last year over filtered search results.Well, I guess if you can't beat them, join them.The search engine will provide government approved search results so don't bother searching for **.

Mint has added a few new tools that will help its users get out of debt, they are called the get-out-of-debt tools.And they will help you set and manage a payment schedule for any money owed.It takes into account your salary and current spending habits and it will help you get a sense of when and how you can pay off any debt. Mint says this was one of the most requested features.

If you have any media upload to Yahoo video, you should download it now if you want to keep it.The site Yahoo video discontinued video uploads in December and now any videos that were uploaded before then will be pulled after March 14th.Yahoo enabled downloading under the my video tab so users can retrieve their content before then. Yahoo video isn't shutting down, though, it just won't allow any more user-generated content.

That's your news for today.I'm Wilson Tang for cnet.com and you've just been loaded.