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it's Thursday November 11th I'm Natali del Conte and it's time to get loaded Fox is another network not taking to Google TV now pretty much all of the networks are blocking google from serving online versions of their shows on televisions since of course they prefer that customers get these shows over the air Fox joins the ranks of ABC NBC and our parent company CBS boo amazon is working on a way for you to protect yourself from bad gifts the company patented a system that intercepts gifts that you don't want it's kind of like an email filter you basically get to stop the order of anyone who you know will get you something terrible and then convert the value of that gift into a gift certificate you could also convert bad gifts into something on your wish list block specific products or ensure that clothing is sent in the appropriate size brilliant amazon took a lot of steam for refusing to stop selling an instructional book on paedophilia the pedophiles guide to love and pleasure has been for sale on Amazon despite vehement opposition to the book amazon originally claimed that they should keep selling this book since it would be censorship not two but just a few years ago amazon stopped selling cockfighting magazines because that is illegal just like pedophilia amazon did cave in and took the book off their virtual shelves and for the record this book great example of a bad gift yesterday we reported that apple may have purchased wireless headset maker y gear the CEO of that company says that did not happen I'm sure he wishes it had though in other Apple news the company has an update for OS 10 this is ten point six point five it's said to have improved stability and performance of graphics applications and games better functionality with the magic trackpad and improved reliability of Ethernet connections the National Hockey League has a new deal with Roku to stream games over there set-top box NHL gamecenter live is a subscription service that will stream live broadcasts of up to 40 weekly out-of-market games classic games and on-demand games for 48 hours after they are broadcast this is a lot like the MLB deal with Roku you can find out more Roku calm / NH ebooks now qualify for their own rankings by the New York Times the newspaper which publishes weekly bestseller lists will now have a separate list to rank bestsellers for e-books in fiction and nonfiction this begins early next year and you don't have to have an iPad or e-reader to enjoy DC comics DC Comics launched an online comic store for pcs so now you can buy comics to read in your browser of course you won't be able to pinch and zoom like you can with the iPad but it's still a way for those without the proper gear to enjoy digital comics you can find out more at read DC comics com / comiXology and finally you know the same it's on like Donkey Kong it means well it's kind of hard to explain you know it means well Nintendo has applied for a trademark of the sane in honor of the November 21st release of Donkey Kong Country Returns not too sure what you do with a trademark like that but I guess it's meaningful to frat boys the world over those are your headlines for today I'll see you tomorrow I'm Natali del Conte for cnet.com and you've just been loaded