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it's Monday August 22nd 2011 I'm Wilson tag on Cena calm and it's time to get loaded if you haven't already heard its property already too late on Friday after HP's announcement that it was going to discontinue its touch pad tablet the company announced an inventory fire sale touch pads began liquidating at retailers around the country for just ninety nine dollars for the 16 gigabyte version and a hundred and forty nine dollars for the 32 gigabyte version the nation's largest electronics retailer Best Buy reversed itself when it decided to join the cell rather than just return shipments back to HP that may still be touch pads available but early indications say supplies have run out and HP may not have endeared itself to retailers who are trying to sell touch pads against five hundred dollar android tablets when the iphone 4 was announced last year gizmodo and its parent company Gawker stole much of the keynotes Thunder by leaking screenshots and videos of the device more than a year later prosecutors filed charges against the two men accused of selling the device to Gawker but not against gawker itself now Apple may file a civil suit and early analysis shows that they may have a case against gawker for violating various California laws additionally Apple will be able to use evidence gathered in the criminal case for their suit so far there hasn't been any official word from Apple about a civil case skype has announced it has acquired it group me for an undisclosed amount groupme is the popular group messaging service and the acquisition follows Facebook's recent purchase of the Beluga love messages the fruits of that bout was they recently launched facebook Messenger app the group me purchased comes as Skype itself as being purchased by Microsoft Research In Motion is launching blackberry app world three point o the new app store comes with a new interface where users can download games apps and themes new features also include a my world storage to keep your downloads and apps synced across devices so far there is no indication that there will be a music service with the app store launch finally google has announced it will be rolling out and verified profiles for its google plus social networking service verified users will see a badge appear on their page confirming if they are a celebrity public figure or a person with a quote large number of undefined circles those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tank for cnet.com and you've just been loaded