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it's Monday februari 28th I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded Facebook is asking permission to change its privacy policies from you its users the changes are meant to make the site's privacy policy easier to understand it's basically a rewrite of this document and an attempt to get rid of the legalese I find it interesting that facebook asks first these days so it's not to get the wrath of the users when it usually does what it does just go ahead and make changes as they see fit they've learned their lesson what do you know skype made some updates to skype to go which lets you call any phone through your skype account this new feature lets you assign skypes local numbers for up to nine of your friends even international friends and then call them directly using these local numbers so you're charged skype credits for the calls but you're charged for local rates not international rates you can do this from your mobile phone meaning you don't even need an internet connection the PlayStation Portable is now forty dollars cheaper Sony drop the price of the PSP to make room for the upcoming next-generation portable which comes out later this year instead of costing 170 dollars it now costs 130 dollars the price drop went into effect on Sunday Groupon launched a version of its site in china it's called gal pencom it's a group discount site that's powered by group on the site will start offering local deals in Beijing and Shanghai in March there's a lot of suing going on around Motorola first off motorola is suing tivo for patent infringement in tivos digital video recorders Motorola is also being sued for the zoom a company called zoom Corp is suing over the name the money transfer company worries that the xoom tablet will cause brand confusion for its customers New York Senator Chuck Schumer is calling for increased security on major sites like Amazon and Twitter he wants these sites to default to HTTPS which is the highly encrypted version of the websites Schumer worries that public Wi-Fi networks in places like coffee shops and bookstores make the public too vulnerable to hacks he's calling for websites to default to https voluntarily a man in Florida was arrested for in only computer viruses in whack Amole the arcade game where you hit stuffed animals that pop up and down the man infected over 400 machines so that they would stop working and need his repair services he was just assuring his own job security and a new facebook app lets you tell someone that you would like to date them if and when they become single it's called the waiting room you literally sign up for someone's waitlist if they break up with the poor slob that they're currently with when you sign up to be in someone's weight room it does not go in your feed so it's fairly private and fairly desperate that's your news of the day I'll see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris foreseen it and you just been loaded