Gadgetory

it's Tuesday September 13 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on CNN com and it's time to get loaded location-based services are all the rage these days with many users checking in on Foursquare and Facebook gowalla has been four squares largest competitor and now the company hopes to reinvent its app to focus on just travel and storytelling in version four point out of the app you'll be able to see where your friends are checking in organizes stories complete with photos of them hanging out the new gowalla also brings guides from when you travel to different locales the guides will offer travel tips and must-see sites and can automatically be generated you may remember the startup company fusion garage who got into a legal spat with tech blog TechCrunch over the idea and design of the crunch pad well it looks like the company's newest tablet the grid 10 will be making that October first debut in the States but with a two hundred dollar price cut the 16 gigabyte Wi-Fi model which was planned to be sold for 499 dollars well now retail for just two hundred ninety nine dollars the great 10 will also come now in a 399 dollar version with 3g I'm sure many of you can relate to the fact that facebook seems to be sucking more and more time away from your day well be prepared to spend even more time in the social network as miramax will soon start selling and renting movies on the site while other studios have made similar moves in the past Miramax will be going a step further by integrating ojala social so viewers can buy and then chat about movies viewers will be able to find movies like Good Will Hunting and pulp fiction films themselves are bought using facebook credits Google Docs is updating its sharing options to a comment only mode maybe you just want someone to approve read your work or maybe you're just afraid someone will mess with your formatting the new comment only sharing option will limit access to those who have the link or anyone on the web software maker mobile tap has released its popular dolphin browser HD for the iPad the app was an android browser known for its gesture and webzine mode gestures will allow users to swipe the page to move back and forth or refresh the page webzine mode reformats the sites into popular magazine style layouts like Flipboard and zeit dolphin browser HD is available in the iTunes App Store for free finally concerned that your teenager is talking or texting on the phone while driving perhaps you're a culprit yourself well Sprint is launching a new app for Android smartphones called dry first the app locks up your phone when it detects you're in a moving vehicle phone calls will automatically go to voicemail while incoming texts will get an automated custom reply sprint isn't just being a good Samaritan here though the service will cost two dollars per month after a 15 day free trial those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tank for cnet.com and you've just been loaded