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it's Thursday August nineteenth I'm Jeff Bakalar and it's time to get loaded Facebook will begin rolling out its places service to users today allowing them to voluntarily disclose their GPS location with a status or photo update users can also take other friends when using the new technology and your friends can comment on your check-ins as well facebook plans to incorporate businesses to and has already laid the groundwork with other services like Foursquare gowalla and Yelp watch out slingbox at the home of Verizon CTO the company showed off FiOS TV streaming from a set-top box to an iPad over Wi-Fi the company is also planning on allowing customers to store personal media on set-top boxes and stream it over any wireless network best of all files customers will begin seeing some of these features by the year's end and at no additional cost early leaks of the anticipated Google Chrome Web Store have surfaced images of the web store confirmed that it will mimic the App Store and android marketplace but just for web apps it appears also that Google Buzz integration will be there and while not confirmed it looks like developers will get ninety five percent of the purchase price while Google will only pocket 5% mostly for credit card processing fees intel has announced a deal to buy security and antivirus company mcafee for seven point six eight billion dollars intel says the purchase will help the company address the inadequate security that affects mobile devices TVs cars ATMs and other gadgets finally if you need to engage in a personal spy game the Second Circuit federal appeals court has ruled that using your iPhone to covertly record a conversation is not illegal just as long as it's not connected with any nefarious Act we stress we cannot offer you legal advice but maybe you should watch what you say the next time you see an iPhone laying around those your headlines for today I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com and you've been loaded