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it's Wednesday March 16th I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded Netflix may become a production house like HBO and Showtime the company is said to be close to acquiring the rights to a TV show called house of cards the show has been created by the same person who directed the Facebook movie David Fincher Netflix has not yet won bidding for this show but they're said to be in the running for 100 million dollars t-mobile announced the sidekick 4G this is the first sidekick that's an Android phone it still has what they call the pop tile hinge that opens to a qwerty keyboard it also has group texting and something called cloud texting which you can use to text with friends or groups across platforms it comes out this spring you can learn more at psychic t-mobile comm you can now watch live baseball on Facebook last week the site had its first movie rental and now sports the Major League Baseball Facebook fan page started streaming preseason games this week you can watch one game for free but if you like it you'll have to pay $120 per year for MLB TV to continue to watch on the site google may be planning to test a mobile payment system in the next few months using near field communications short-range wireless systems customers in New York and San Francisco will be able to use their cell phones to pay for goods with retailers who have specialized readers this has not yet been confirmed by Google but you have to think it's not too far off Google is going to update blogger later this year screens of the revamp site were announced this week at South by Southwest it's supposed to have a cleaner interface and new publishing tools Kindle and no customers can now share books with a site called ebook fling it's sort of like a dating site for ebook owners you post a book that you want to share and then you find someone who wants it you'll end a book by sending an email invite to the borrower and then you earn credits for a successful borrowing transaction if you don't have credits you can pay $1.99 to borrow the book you can now use Twitter in a more secure way twitter added the option to use the Site in HTTPS mode permanently you could use Twitter in HTTPS before by going to http twitter.com but now you can make this year by going to your settings menu and checking always use HTTPS it might slow the site down a little but it's worth it we suggest that you do it and finally we fail to mention earlier in the week Microsoft Unleashed Internet Explorer 9 the update to this popular browser launched on Monday at South by Southwest in Texas it's supposed to be faster and more standards compliant and its features compared to those of Firefox and Chrome it is also well reviewed here on CNET it does not work with Windows XP though which is a burn considering between 40 and 50 percent of the world's computers are running XP that's your news of the day remember cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded for links to the stories we discussed I'm Natali Morris for seen it and you just been loaded