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it's Tuesday februari 21st 2012 I'm Richard carrion Cena calm and it's time to get loaded microsoft says google is not playing nice with privacy preferences and is finding ways to avoid following a user's privacy settings in Internet Explorer browsers this reveal comes days after the wall street journal reported that Google found a way to get around privacy settings in Apple Safari web browsers so it can make money off ad tracking cookies days after that report microsoft said that google was also skirting its browser rules and using code to continue to track users web habits with cookies even if the user specified in settings that they did not want to be tracked Google responded saying that it wasn't practical to comply with Microsoft's request while providing modern web functionality pinterest a virtual pinboard website is the hot new social network but as it grows with record speed it's making adjustments to iron out potential kinks kinks like copyright laws the site which allows users to post cool photos and articles they find across the web has been criticized as possibly violating copyright laws because users can share images they don't have the rights to so this week websites can now avoid having their links shared on pinterest if they so wish of course many websites will want to continue to ride that Pinterest traffic wave pinterest drives so much traffic to other websites one analyst group says it brings in the same amount of traffic as twitter every day our tech lifestyle seems to get more cloudy when it comes to online storage that is microsoft is evolving its cloud storage service called SkyDrive to be a desktop app within the new windows 8 operating system SkyDrive is Microsoft's answer to Apple's iCloud service SkyDrive will fetch remote files from the web so users can access files while moving between computers Barnes & Noble is heating up the competition between amazon's kindle fire tablet Barnes & Noble introduced a cheaper version of its new nook tablet with less memory putting it at the same price as the fire 199 dollars the showdown between these reader tablets is now on an even battleground for Hardware both of the same size both have eight gigs of storage the same RAM even the same processing power what it comes down to now for consumers is preference to the case design screen display software features and media content but if you're one of the few that invested in the other 7 inch tablet last year the blackberry playbook and update is finally available the playbook OS two point O includes features like a standalone email client with a unified inbox a built-in calendar and an application for contacts the only way to access email calendars and contacts in that previous version was to link it with an existing blackberry phone if ahead standalone email feature to begin with the PlayBook would have likely seen more success those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you just been loaded