Gadgetory

it's Monday June twenty eighth I'm Natali del Conte and it's time to get loaded Samsung is launching a new line of galaxy phones today the samsung fascinate will run on verizon these are all android phones t-mobile AT&T and Sprint will also get their versions t-mobile's version the samsung vibrant has a heavy emphasis on multimedia with a 4-inch am o LED screen it has applications like slacker radio kindle for android and comes pre-loaded with James Cameron's movie avatar and the Obama administration is trying to double the wireless communication spectrum available for commercial use in the next ten years President Obama set to sign a memorandum today that would put approximately 500 megahertz of spectrum up for auction that spectrum is currently controlled by federal and private companies this is part of the SCC's National Broadband Plan and amazon launched a new version of kindle for iphone and ipad that can play embedded video and audio so say you buy a book or a newspaper that has multimedia content your iPad iPhone or iPod Touch can now handle that last week we reported that the Twitter application within Facebook would let you find Facebook friends Twitter accounts and automatically follow them well apparently that's not working out so well Facebook has admitted to blocking this feature we don't really know why these two aren't playing nicely and to follow up on the pornography domain that we reported on Friday I can or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and numbers has tentatively approved the dot xxx top-level domain to be used for the pornography industry this will in effect create a red-light district on the web although it's estimated that only ten percent of adult sites on the web will adopt it still might not be a bad time to think about cybersquatting and we'll end with a rumor dig founder Kevin Rose has posted about a new possible social network from google called google me it could be a competitor to Facebook but we really don't have details about it of course google has tried to succeed in social networking time and time again but so far no dice that's news for now thank you for watching i'm natali del conte with cnet TV and you've just been loaded