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it's Tuesday November 22nd 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on cnet com and it's time to get loaded rumors of a facebook phone have persisted for quite some time but according to a report from all things D Facebook has tapped smartphone maker HTC to build an actual phone that has the social network integrated into its core experience it's code named buffy after the television series starring sarah michelle gellar supposedly the phone will run a version of the android operating system but with heavy tweaks to integrate facebook services and will support html5 as a platform for applications speaking of mobile apps CTIA the Trade Organization for the wireless industry has said it will be taking the wraps of its new mobile app rating system by ratings we mean content not quality the system was designed with the help of the video game organizations ESRB that reviews and then assigns age appropriate ratings to games the system is set to be unveiled on November 29th and the hope is that it will consolidate the multiple rating systems for Apple Google research in motion nokia and microsoft app stores companies are trying hard to find ways to keep and recruit talented employees and microsoft may have struck gold the company has decided the best way to hire engineers for its kinect for windows team is not stock options or big bonuses but free bacon the company is trying to double the size of its engineering team and has set up a bacon wagging to serve free slices of that delicious meat Adobe wants its customers to subscribe rather than by their software it helps the company maintain consistent revenues when many creative pros think that the features of cs3 are still good enough so the company has decided that it will make up rating to new software more unpalatable when the company unveils its creative cloud next year it will cost 4999 a month and include access to apps like illustrator indesign premiere pro flash pro after effects dreamweaver and new adobe apps edge and muse meanwhile only users with cs5 or cs5 point-five can have upgrade pricing if you're still on older versions you'll only get 20 percent off the regular price until the end of the year now here's a company that knows the value of a good deal amazon the online store has announced that through cyber monday customers can buy any non iphone smartphone for just one penny phones include the motorola droid razr which verizon sells for three hundred dollars but also includes the samsung galaxy s2 the epic 4g touch blackberry torch 4G and more which all go for significantly more than one cent those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson Tang for cnet.com and you've just been loaded