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it's Wednesday October 26 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded big news today for big blue iBM has appointed its first female CEO and it's a hundred year history virginia rometty currently a senior vice president for sales and marketing will succeed sam palmisano as chief executive in january there are only two other women in charge of large technology companies meg whitman at hewlett-packard and Ursula burns at xerox nokia announced its first two windows phones overnight the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 and with troubles Nokia's going through financially they are really counting on these new units to succeed the Lumia 800 will launch in six countries in Europe next month the lower-cost 710 model that will come out later in Hong Kong India Russia and Taiwan the US won't be seen any nokia windows phones until sometime next year one big reason windows phone software doesn't work with LTE 4G yet when it does then you'll see Nokia making the effort to compete in the US market twitter is quietly working on an update to its Timeline feature that lets you view a message thread to see all related conversations and how many people retweeted a message so instead of expanding on the message in the right-hand side panel it simply can be opened in the mainstream feed one Twitter user discovered he was among the few to have it and posted a video showing how it works amazon is building millions more kindle fire units than the company planned to sell according to amazon's third-quarter earnings report in a release chief executive Jeff Bezos said September 28 that was when the new kindles were available for pre-order that was the biggest order day ever for the kindle even bigger than the previous holiday peak days also in the three weeks since launch orders for the electronic ink Kindles are double than the previous versions launch but this quarters earnings were not as hot as Wall Street expected even with the popularity of the new tablet the company sees the fourth quarter also being a little rough since is taking a short-term profit hit on the cost of making the kindle fire grand theft auto 5 has been announced but we have no idea what the theme is Rockstar Games just tease the logo and the design is inspired by elements on a five-dollar bill so could this be hinting at a Las Vegas theme of high-stakes action perhaps it's said in Washington DC with some twists on the Treasury we'll find out next week the trailer will be unveiled November second when grand theft auto 4 was released in 2008 it sold six million copies in the first week it was the best-selling game of all time that is until call of duty modern warfare 2 came out the next year call of duty black ops now holds the title for best selling game those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey frisina calm and you just been loaded