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it's Monday February 13 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on sina com and it's time to get loaded Apple will look deeper into the working conditions at its overseas factories the iphone maker announced that the fair labor association and organization that is dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions and factories around the world well investigate Foxconn facilities in China the first inspection began this morning this announcement follows sign petitions that were handed to Apple stores last week which called for Apple to improve working conditions at its manufacturing plants google has temporarily disabled prepaid cards for Google Wallet users after two hacks are published online currently it's very easy to drain money from a stolen Google Wallet phone account if the user doesn't have a password lock for the home screen with a stolen phone the thief simply has to reset the Google Wallet app set a new PIN and then go on a spending spree with a prepaid card account tied to the phone google says it is working on a fix in other Google News the web giant has added an improved YouTube app to Google TV the app now has navigation and a feature called discover which lets users browse YouTube channels by categories like humor cooking and news the users give a video thumbs up or down and leave a comment with their remote as well as add video to the playlist or subscribe to a channel the Spotify app on iOS devices has gotten a stream speed boost which supposedly improves the audio quality but you might not notice the difference unless you're an audiophile Spotify is new itunes app allows users to stream music at a bit rate of 320 kilobits per second which is the same speed paid customers get on the desktop version previously the mobile version was limited to 160 kilobits per second samsung has announced its newest 7-inch tablet the samsung galaxy tab 2 it's loaded with the android 4.2 operating system called Ice Cream Sandwich and has a 1 gigahertz dual-core processor the galaxy tab 2 will have both 3g and Wi-Fi and it will be the first Samsung device to have the AllShare Play service which lets users stream multimedia content to the tablet from their pcs samsung smartphones or third party cloud drives it will also support file transfers between devices the late Steve Jobs was honored the grammy awards sunday night for his contributions to the industry he was given the trustees grammy award for helping create products and technology that transformed the way we consume music as well as video movies and books apple's senior vice president of internet software and services Eddy Cue accepted the award on his behalf and stay tuned the cnet TV this week as we bring you coverage from new york's toy fair don't be surprised in the next time you walk into a toy store there's an entire aisle dedicated to toys that interact with iPad and smartphone apps those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey pristina calm and you just been loaded