Gadgetory

it's tuesday october eleventh 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on CNN com and it's time to get loaded iPad users you finally have an official facebook app now if you don't know why this is a top story it's because rumors of his existence have dragged on for years now notable features include a way to video chat with friends watch and record HD video and play games and apps in full-screen mode polycom a company known for its video conferencing and audio equipment for businesses has launched a video conferencing app for tablets competing gets cisco the polycom realpresence mobile app will work on the ipad to motorola xoom and Galaxy Tab 10.1 and it can take up to 16 calls at once polycom says is working to also get the application working on smartphones asus will unveil a new line of ultrabooks today with prices starting at under 1000 dollars by costing as much as fifteen hundred dollars the thin and light notebooks are designed to rival the macbook air and come with USB 3.0 ports the UX 21 will come with a 11.6 inch display core i5 intel sandy bridge processor and 128 gigabyte solid-state drive the high-end model is 13 inches with a core i7 chip and 256 gigabyte drive this week acer also announced a new 13 inch ultrabook of its own for nine hundred dollars you don't need an android device to run android apps a new program called the BlueStacks App Player lets users run Android apps on a Windows PC the program is in alpha testing now but it runs 10 preloaded apps and can have twenty six more apps installed either by pushing apps from over another Android mobile device or downloading apps to a Facebook account all this because the world needs another way to play Angry Birds and the who thought this was an issue news department Twitter's battle to own the word tweet seems to have come to an end a few years ago Twitter was denied the trademark for the word tweet because several companies use the word tweet in their name and twit add a tool for sending out advertisements on Twitter got tweet as a trademark in 2008 for the phrase let your ad meet tweets well now to add has now handed that tweet trademark over to Twitter in exchange for Twitter dropping a lawsuit and giving twit ad its user account back so the moral here is don't your tweets before they hatch or is it a tweeting the hand worth two in a lawsuit who wrote this those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson Tang for cnet.com and you've just been loaded