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if Thursday December second I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded verizon is about to turn on the switch to its LTE 4G network they promised they would have 4g in 2010 looks like they'll make it just in time the LTE or long term evolution network will launch on December 5th in a number of markets including New York Chicago LA and San Francisco YouTube is going to let you skip ads TrueView is a new ad format that gives you control letting you bypass ads that you don't care about you do have to wait a minimum of five seconds you'll see a countdown advertisers are only charged for ads that you watch not ads that you skip they seem to like this because they don't want to advertise to someone who doesn't care much less pay to advertise to someone who doesn't care Microsoft has launched new rewards program and Xbox Live Xbox Live rewards it's like a frozen yogurt card you earn freebies with your loyalty such as 200 points for a one-year membership amazon has launched its own version of wikipedia called shopping and abled wikipedia pages it's an Amazon page that has Wikipedia content related to Amazon listings of course you can purchase the related thing from these pages this will help you make more informed choices about what you're buying I suppose dishnet where customers can now watch content from their DVR on the iPad dish network launched the remote access app that lets you watch both live and recorded shows on your cable box but only if you have a sling media product like the sling adapter if you do have that you can also set your DVR to record shows the app is thirty dollars Netflix is adding more indie films to its watch instantly movie streaming service Netflix struck a deal with the studio film district which produce movies such as The Departed and aviator the deal gives the license to first-run theatrically released films through Netflix google has added an update to gmail that lets you mute email chains easier this is when there's an email conversation with several people that you have just had enough with if you mute you no longer will see all those replies but now if someone sends a reply only to you you will see it you can also unmute a lot easier as an option in the pull down menu and finally a new song from Michael Jackson is available exclusively through Apple's ping music network that lives inside of iTunes of course the song is not really new Jackson died last year but it is a song called much too soon that Jackson wrote in the 80s and never released those are your headlines for today I will see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris for cnet.com and you've been loaded