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today we're banging our friends casting spells on the Kindle and bracing ourselves for the return of the browser Wars I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Microsoft's Bing search engine now includes Facebook integration when you search for something on bing a site panel will pop up showing which of your friends might help you with your search say if you're looking at hotels in chicago it'll point out friends that live in chicago of course Microsoft isn't the only one bringing social in to search just recently Google did a similar move throwing Google+ comments into search results but that's not the only news today for Microsoft the company is stirring up the browser Wars again preventing Firefox or any other browser to run on Windows RT now Windows RT is the light version of Windows 8 that you'll see on low powered tablets and smartphones Firefox and Google are crying foul saying this restricts consumer freedom of choice and competitive innovation Microsoft just argues hey we want the best experience on these systems and only internet explorer can provide it and now Facebook has an app store well it's more like a nap showcase you see Facebook is launching a hub that features apps but it'll just direct you to buy those apps off apples or Google stores if developers create an app for html5 that's not for any specific device they'll be able to sell it right on Facebook so why is Facebook promoting apps because the more apps you use the more information Facebook can gather about your habits and that's more data it can offer to advertisers and in other news we're watching amazon prime subscribers will be able to get the whole Harry Potter series through the kindle owners lending library starting in June nineteenth it costs eighty dollars a year to access that library and all the perks of amazon prime nintendo dropped the price of the dsi to a hundred dollars and the dsixl also dropped to one hundred and thirty dollars the prices take effect may twentieth dish network announced that its new hopper DVR system will be able to skip commercials with a feature called autohop it'll skip commercials recorded during primetime shows in HD from the four major networks I'm sure networks are thrilled at the new and today we're talking about the Google+ app for iOS it just got a major design overhaul and it puts a big focus around photos that's right google released a brand new version of the Google+ app to Apple users before Android how scandalous Android folks you'll be getting a version in a few weeks and it should have a few more features than the iphone version that's your tech news update for today stay updated on all the latest news at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey