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it's Wednesday November 23 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on sina com and it's time to get loaded back in February Apple's App Store added the subscription payment option and media companies quickly adopted it for newspapers and magazines but now for the first time the app store features subscription-based games for 699 a month a user can get access to dozens of game titles from developer big fish games and the games are streamed to the app instead of being downloaded because of that you have to have a Wi-Fi connection there is a free version to sample the games but you only get 30 minutes of play time Microsoft's lobbyists are quietly working to alter the highly controversial Stop Online Piracy Act bill currently under debate in Congress the bill called SOPA for short aims to give Congress more power to stop websites that post copyright infringing material but large web companies like Google are against it because it would give Congress broad power to sense with the web Microsoft has always been supportive of stopping online piracy it doesn't want legal copies of its software out there but apparently even Microsoft isn't thrilled with the wording of the SOPA bill penguin group is the latest book publisher to stop libraries from lending digital copies of its books penguins suspended authorization for libraries to check out its newest digital books electronically citing security concerns the changes only impact new titles publishers Hachette Book Group McMillan and Simon & Schuster also don't participate in digital book lending through libraries so if you're getting the e-book reader as a gift this year hope you're not doing it for the library lending features it's looking less likely that the AT&T and t-mobile merger will ever happen the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has requested another hearing for AT&T to prove why spending thirty nine billion on t-mobile is in the public interest that's on top of the US Department of Justice filing a lawsuit to block the merger FCC officials said it was impossible to see how the deal could serve the public interest if you get a new smartphone two years from now you might get through those black friday shopping lines slightly faster that's because more than half of the smart phones in the market will be able to do mobile payments with NFC technology so in about two or three years from now more shoppers will be upping their phone at the register to pay those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey prasina calm and you just been loaded