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it's Thursday februari 9 2012 I'm Richard carrion cnet com and it's time to get loaded Kodak is drawing the curtain on its camera business kodak announced it will no longer sell digital cameras pocket video cameras and digital picture frames instead codec will focus on printing photos for at home printers and retail based printing it will also continue to sell camera accessories kodak filed for bankruptcy protection in january and this phase out would save the company a hundred million dollars in annual operating costs the company will still provide customer service and honor all warranties for its devices it's likely the US Justice Department will approve Google's acquisition of motorola mobility according to The Wall Street Journal the approval could come as early as next week and with a Google own thousands of patents for Motorola it's reported that some regulators remain concerned if Google can remain neutral when it licenses out patents protesters will be at a dozen or so Apple stores today to deliver online petitions that ask Apple to make working conditions better at its manufacturing plants in China the group's some of us and change.org each had their own petitions gathering a combined 250 thousand signatures the petitions were created after New York Times series that highlighted the poor labor and safety issues at factories Apple uses to make its products the up-and-coming photo sharing social network path has responded to public outcry over his practice of gathering data from iphone address books without notifying the user it is done so path CEO Dave Morin posted an apology and said all address book data acquired so far has been deleted a new version of the path app is available now which asks users for permission before it uploads phone contacts to pass servers the point of gathering contacts was so it could help find users find other people they know on path expect Google to create its own cloud based storage service according to reports from The Wall Street Journal it would be called drive and be a direct competitor to services like Dropbox drive with let users upload photos documents and videos to Google servers and allow sharing files with others it could launch in a few months would offer free version and a premium version with more storage space and this could also tie into google music the service that lets users up their entire music libraries to Google servers and music lovers can get their fill of Grammy goodness before the big awards show this Sunday start on Friday the Grammys live app available on iTunes will broadcast three days of live video streams of VIP and backstage events to gear up for the show on Sunday at a p.m. on CBS aside from live video there's also a radio station play music from the grammy nominees as well as photos tweets news and trivia those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey russina calm and you just been loaded