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it's time to hang out with the world seek out new smartphones and take a ride on the yahoo drama train I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update your google+ hangout video chat sessions can now be broadcasted live to the world users can share the live stream of a hangout on their Google+ page or embed it on another website you can see how many people are watching and once the live show is finished Google uploads the video recording to your YouTube channel Google+ has also been working with some television stations to broadcast their hangouts live if you want to check it out Gayle King from CBS this morning will be doing a live hangout Tuesday and so with Conan O'Brien the drama continues over a yahoo where last week shareholders demanded the firing of CEO Scott Thompson over allegations that he lied about his education he hasn't been fired just yet but the evidence against Thompson is pretty serious for several years even back when he worked at PayPal his bio stated that he graduated with a computer science degree but he didn't it was even listed in yahoo's financial statements the investor leading the charge to fire Thompson also has his own motives he's the head of a hedge fund called Third Point and has been fighting for seats on Yahoo's board of directors Third Point is pushing for an investigation and is demanding to see documents about how Thompson was hired in other news we're watching 18t is pushing to sell more products for home security the plan is to offer connected devices like cameras sensors and thermostats all these devices will be hooked into your home's broadband network and be controlled from the owners smartphone or tablet LG could be launching another television with Google TV later this month according to Reuters LG's current google TV set has received mixed reviews there's a bug in some Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phones that gives the screen a purple tint when brightness is turned down but Nokia says it will be fixed in the next software update the ctia wireless conference is going on this week in New Orleans and already some new smartphones have been unveiled verizon announced it will sell the HTC droid incredible with 4G LTE in the how many weeks but no official word on price it has a 4-inch screen dual core processor and it'll come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and the HTC Sense for interface HTC is also showing off the one v it's the most basic of the HTC one family of phones but it still has the latest Android operating system and some good camera software expected to come out in the summer and 18t showed off the samsung focus to a fifty-dollar windows phone that can tap into 18-piece 4G LTE network that 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