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not to alarm you but the tweets are coming from inside your house I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update just when you think it's safe to tweet comes another website to shake you up about security the site we know your house calm shows how your location data can be used against you without you being aware it pulls in tweets that have location turned on and when someone uses the word home so if you tweet about being bored sitting at home and you forget that locations turned on voila it's easy to deduce where you live and you're on the website with a photo we've seen this before with sites that show who is talking about being on vacation with please Rob me calm it's all to bring awareness to over sharing of course not every tweet it pulls is actually someone's home but it still shows how easy it is to reveal more than you like by not being aware of your location settings so to shake off that creepy feeling cheer yourself up with discounted nooks and iPhones Barnes & Noble has draw prices on the nook tablet and no color making it competitive with Google's Nexus 7 tablet and those price drops are also because a new line of Amazon Kindles will be coming out soon we're also seeing retailers cut iphone 4s prices to prepare for a new iPhone model expected to be announced in mid-september tis the season for deals that is if you don't mind having an older model in other stories were watching google has acquired the Travel Guide provider frommer's google also acquired Zagat last year so this is just another push into the travel and reading space Facebook's life events section now that you announce when you're having a baby just don't yourself a favor and actually call your family before posting to Facebook yeah thanks things aren't so great at groupon the wall street journal reports that hundreds of employees are trying to jump ship and find a new job the journal says sales people are upset with their pay and how they're being treated and GameMaker Electronic Arts believes that in the next two or three years there will be more digital games sold than boxed games an executive at EA told Reuters that it's seen an increase of downloaded mobile and free-to-play games they share alone there are more than 40 such games available from EA and on the note of video games the Neo Geo is back for those that love classic games the neogeo x gold package comes out December 6th for two hundred dollars it's a handheld with 20 pre-loaded games like fatal fury and the king of fighters and it also come with a joystick and donking station so you can output it to your television if two hundred bucks sounds like a lot well then just think the original Neo Geo console first sold for 650 dollars that your tech news update you can always get more at cnet com / update and you could stay in a loop by following me on twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey