Gadgetory

this may be the last time you can vote on Facebook policy I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update Facebook is letting you vote on whether or not the service should still put changes up for a vote back in 2009 Facebook declared that users can vote on policy changes and the vote would only count if 30% of all users participated problem was not enough people were voting so it didn't even matter it's up to one last vote to decide if Facebook will keep this voting mechanism Facebook is also proposing two other changes one has to do with who can send you Facebook messages right now you can control who can send you messages in settings but Facebook proposes it should be more like email filters and since Facebook bought Instagram it wants to share info between the two sites which could mean unified Instagram and Facebook profiles users have until Monday December 10th to vote and it'll require 300 million people voting for it to even make a difference the voting is being done by a third party Facebook app you can find it by searching for facebook site governance the latest gadget to bring live tv to your mobile device is the elgato ITV it attaches to an iPad iPhone or iPod Touch to stream a few live TV channels you only have to pay once for the hardware which is a hundred bucks there are no other charges most areas have just a couple of over-the-air channels so you won't be seeing much at launch check the coverage map before buying it but on the good side it lets you pause and rewind live TV it doesn't require an internet connection and it works in a vehicle but before you dive in read our full review at cnet.com if you're into discovering new music or podcasts soundcloud.com just got a refresh the audio sharing site is trying to become the YouTube of audio it added ways for users to discover new music and audio recordings by seeing what's popular with your friends and other users the service also links with Facebook new apps for Android and Apple devices will be out Thursday today we got our eye on a new app called unity it's spelled crazy as most apps these days but the idea is pretty interesting it lists I phone users says all files from any device without needing to first synced everything to the cloud unity communicates with your other devices both desktop and mobile to access your files and stream music and videos but the app doesn't make copies of files and the files don't have to be uploaded to a specific folder it's just another tool in the growing cloud storage space except it's not really a cloud that's your tech news update you can find links to all these stories on the blog cnet.com / - Jeff Bakalar for filling in for the past few days while I was away from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey