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it's Wednesday September first 2010 I'm Jeff Bakalar and it's time to get loaded apples music event is today and the first bombshell we can confirm is that apple will live streaming the event from apple com now don't get too excited though Apple is promoting live HTTP streaming so it will only work from Mac os10 snow leopard with Safari and also iOS 3.0 devices or higher check back with senior calm for analysis and video in more apple news the wall street journal is also reporting that apple will begin 99-cent television show rentals with titles coming from disney's ABC and news corp's fox other networks seem to be wary of apples plans fearing that they will cannibalize lucrative DVD sales and finally bloomberg is reporting that the highly anticipated next generation apple TV will feature netflix streaming service users will need to pay netflix subscription fees but the new apple TV may retail for just ninety nine dollars what's left of tom at HP seems to be determined to yet again be overshadowed by apple HP demoed webos 2.0 features but seems to be more of an evolution rather than groundbreaking the stacks feature is an enhancement to webos is much hailed card multitasking now common tasks will be grouped together the universal search is now just called just type and contacts energy syncing is now open to third parties and phones will also have an Exhibition Mode when they're docked microsoft announced plans to release an updated xbox 360 controller that features a transforming d-pad that can be raised and lowered just by twisting it the new controller is white grey and black and they're dropping the colored buttons from the original the new controller will be released on November 9th and sell exclusively with Microsoft's play and charge kit for 64 99 finally images of the t-mobile g2 phone have leaked on the web the g2 will be the first hspa+ phone in the US and it comes in silver which definitely seems to be a step up from the brown t-mobile g1 those your headlines for today I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet com and you've just been loaded