Gadgetory

it's Wednesday October 20th I'm Natali del Conte and it's time to get loaded HP is ready to show off what they're going to do with palm the company announced the palm free to smartphone running the newest operating system webos 2.0 it has flash multitasking and something called just type it lets you start to compose a message or an update before you have even opened the appropriate app I'm excited to see that one in action the phone launches in France on Friday but it won't come to the us or canadian markets for another few months xbox calm is getting a refresh today with some cool new features for starters you can edit your avatar combine messages friend and game requests into a single panel and play games with Xbox Live friends right in the browser microsoft also launched office 365 it's a suite of office programs that's hosted online or in the cloud office 365 combines office sharepoint online exchange online and Lync online this is mostly for small business collaboration it launches in 13 countries and regions find out more at office 365 microsoft com and you can now print your facebook photos at your local target the two companies announced that the Kodak picture kiosks at target will be able to access your facebook account to print photos from there just don't leave yourself signed in on that kiosk and we have some ereader news Barnes & Noble may have a new note on the way they invited press to some kind of event next Tuesday we'll let you know also pandigital announced the novel it's a color e-ink device with a touchscreen built-in Wi-Fi and a direct link to the barnes and noble ebook store it costs two hundred dollars google has been contracted to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls the Israel Antiquities Authority has authorized the search giant to digitize one of the earliest documents ever discovered that chronicles the inception of Christianity there are over 30,000 fragments that will be scanned and I would imagine very carefully those are your headlines for today but don't forget that today is an apple announcement day we think it has to do with the new macbook perhaps a macbook air we will be live blogging the event today you can find that at cnet com or you can just hold your horses until tomorrow and I will all about it I'll see you then I'm Natali del Conte for cnet.com and you've been loaded