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it's Thursday May twentieth i'm natali del conte and it's time to get loaded google finally announced google TV today turns out they're not calling it smart TV they're just calling it Google TV it's a lot of what we have been discussing google search and software that works with cable and web content to find and bring you anything you want to watch there are a lot of manufacturers on board sony intel logitech Best Buy dish network and Adobe for flash based web video of course it's based on the Android platform google also officially announced android 2.2 this is the latest version of its mobile phone operating system codenamed froyo features include hotspot functionality flash support and improvement to the android market we should see this in phones within the next few months Apple reversed its policy about buying an ipad with cash a woman from the San Francisco Bay Area named Diane Campbell saved up her hard-earned cash and tried to buy herself an iPad but Apple turned her away the local ABC stations spread this story in apple gaben now everyone can buy an ipad with cash campbell sound bite for the story was just so cute she said mr. jobs give a sister a break i am not going to sell my ipod your kids are going to love this one the Sesame Street ebook store launched today it's an online collection of 121 books featuring Oscar the Grouch Bert and Ernie and all of your favorite childhood friends you can buy them in standard audio interactive or animated format you can buy all a cart but an annual subscription will cost you about forty dollars and this is a DRM model so you don't really own those books anywhere except on your online Sesame Street bookshelf to find out more go to ebooks Sesame Street org those are all your headlines for today we will see tomorrow with our first regularly scheduled friday edition thank you for watching I'm Natali del Conte between XP and you just unloaded