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it's Tuesday January 31st 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on sina com and it's time to get loaded Apple is officially king of the PC thanks to strong ipad sales apple shipped more computers and tablets in the fourth quarter than any other pc vendor Apple knocked hewlett-packard from the top spot by a wide margin apple sold 15 million iPads and five million max and that makes up seventeen percent of the total 120 million pcs shipped globally in the fourth quarter and that's not the only shake-up in that time amazon shipped more than 5 million kindle fire tablets so if you combine kindle fires with other kindle e-readers then amazon rivals traditional top PC makers also an apple news the iphone maker has snagged a new retail chief from across the pond john browett the CEO of European technology retailer Dixon's is Apple's new head of retail strategy and will start the job in April the previous head of apple's retail Ron Johnson left to become the CEO of JC penney President Obama addressed online piracy legislation in his first Google Plus hangout session with voters Monday the president didn't agree with the contested SOPA and protect IP act but said there should be a way to protect Hollywood's interests without affecting the fundamental integrity of the Internet as an open transparent system the Google+ Hangout allowed Obama to have a multi-way video chat with five people selected to join him and he also answered a few questions that were submitted through YouTube last week about a hundred and thirty five thousand questions were submitted in total the president has added a few other tech tools to his campaign he joined Instagram a month ago and now his campaign is using the mobile payment tool Square to take donations Politico reports that Obama staff field organizers and volunteers will all be given Square mobile credit card readers so they can take donations through their smartphones this will be the first time a national campaign has used square starting on april fifth t-mobile customers will have limits on how much data they can use while roaming hit the limit and data is blocked until the phone is back in range of the t-mobile network or user can connect to Wi-Fi the limits depend on the customers plan for example the starting plan of 2 gigabytes a month can only use 50 megabytes while roaming outside the network and if you're picking out a new cell phone plan check to see if your bathroom is in range of the network because 75 percent of Americans with mobile phones say they use them in the bathroom sixty-three percent answer phone calls on the loo forty-one percent make a call sixty-seven percent read texts but men do more work related calls in the John than women and it's not just work many said they also make an online purchase on the toilet yes folks I'm officially never touching someone else's cell phone ever again those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you just been loaded