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2011-01-31
it's Monday January 31st I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded the net neutrality bill is not going over so easily the Federal Communications Commission is fighting in court to stay the course with the new rules and mobile and cable providers are trying to stop it Verizon and metro pcs filed challenges to the rules and the FCC has filed a request to get rid of those challenges it's kind of a mess and the rules are not even in place yet but they are expected to be soon Amazon may be testing out a video streaming service to compete with Netflix details are fuzzy on this but it would seem that the service is unlimited and free to anyone who is an Amazon Prime customer Amazon Prime is a yearly membership that entitles you to free two-day shipping on any product and apparently free movies Amazon already does stream movies but this would be a revamp of Amazon's video on-demand if it's true speaking of Amazon if you haven't changed your password there now is a good time to do that wired reports that Amazon has a security flaw that lets people log into accounts with passwords that are closed but not exactly correct for example if your password was seen it someone could log into your account with CNET 1 2 3 which kind of defeats the purpose of a password this appears to affect old passwords that have not been changed in a while so let's all change our passwords today for good measure new research shows that Google's Android operating system is now the most popular smartphone platform in the world taking that title from Nokia nearly 33 million Android phones were sold in 2010 compared to 31 million Nokia Symbian phones Nokia held the top spot for 10 years and if you need another Angry Birds Game one is on its way Rovio the maker of Angry Birds is going to make a new version of the game based on the upcoming 20th Century Fox movie called Rio it's an animated film the new game will have 45 levels with more as an upgrade of course and you can't wait and Valentine's Day edition is on its way example.com has been inexplicably changed the site used to be a place reserved for private testing of web builds that isn't the case any longer now it redirects itself to the internet assigned numbers Authority it's not clear why that's your news of the day if you want more about any of our stories today visit cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded I'm Natali Morris for cnet.com
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