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it's time to swing on to vine in loop your lunch I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update there's a new fold in the drama between Facebook and Twitter the brand new iPhone app vine which is owned by Twitter lets users create short six-second videos and share it on social media but within hours of the app launching Facebook blocked vine from being able to find your Facebook friends you can still share a vine video on your Facebook feed you just can't find fellow vine users that are in your Facebook network the move is similar to how Twitter shut off Facebook's Instagram from accessing its API and getting user data since it didn't help Twitter's bottom line you know the saying an API for an API if you have an Apple device it's worth seeing how vine works you don't have to create a straight six second video but you can't actually stop and start the video several times throughout so you create choppy montages or a stop-motion clip but be aware that your videos published on the vine network are public there are no privacy settings yet there is a way you can get around it once you create a video and get it to the publish screen your clip is saved to your camera roll so then you can exit the app and just share the video with whomever you want the live TV streaming startup called Aereo has updated its app on roku so subscribers can use the service with the roku remote previously users could only control it with an iPhone or iPad Aereo can be a popular device for people who want to save money by dropping their cable subscriptions REO subscribers pay $8 a month to access several live local over-the-air channels as well as a cloud-based DVR ariel pulls in local broadcasts from any tiny over-the-air antennas and then streams those channels to its subscribers right now it's only available for New York City residents but the company's about to expand to 22 additional cities in the u.s. several broadcast networks including CNET's parent company CBS are suing area because it streams the over-the-air TV signals without permission and it doesn't pay the subscriber retransmission fees that mainstream cable and satellite providers do and play it back like a DVR without the box Microsoft will be launching more variations of the surface tablet during Microsoft's earnings call the chief financial officer didn't give any specific details but he did say the company will expand the surface product line as well as expand retail distribution and get it out to more countries you also said that there's great demand in general for Windows 8 touch devices and that supply simply can't keep up with demand that's your tech news update for more details on today's stories head to the blog cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey