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it's Thursday August fifth 2010 I'm Jeff Bakalar and it's time to get loaded according to the New York Times google and verizon are close to an agreement that would allow for Google's content providers to deliver services much quicker the catch these companies will have to pay for such privileges which ultimately means consumers could see hikes in their internet charges of course this certainly dishes a big blow to the concept of net neutrality and it's a bit upsetting to see that Google is part of such an initiative in more google news google wave the next generation communications platform that was essentially meant to replace email instant messaging whiteboards and wiki's is shutting down the service was a real-time character by character messaging system that in reality most people didn't really seem to understand in a blog post google says that although the company was excited about it internally the product did not have the user adoption that Google wanted the company does say that the technology will still find its way into other products and portions of it are still open source the Federal Trade Commission and Intel have announced that they have reached a preliminary settlement in their anti-competition case the settlement prevents Intel from entering contracts that reward customers that only purchase intel chips or punish others that buy chips from Intel competitors the agreement also requires that intel maintain PCI Express as a way for graphics competitors to interface with Intel chips for the next six years in more iphone jailbreaking news Apple has announced that it is readying a security fix for the browser flaw that allowed jailbreakme.com to easily compromised iPhones no word yet on when a patch will be released but expected soon because the iphone dev team has announced that a new version of the carrier unlock tool ultrasnow is now available now ultrasnow in conjunction with a jailbroken iphone will allow users to unlock their phones with non-approved carriers those your headlines for today i'm jeff bakalar for cnet.com and you've just been loaded