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it's Monday November 21st 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded there's drama brewing in the streaming music space as 200 labels pulled out of sharing music on services like Spotify symph ir do and Napster the labels are part of uk-based music distributor st holdings it was spurred by a report from NPD group showing that more people are okay with not buying music if they can access it anytime for free on these services it's not going to crush the companies by losing the smaller artists but it remains to be seen if more will also sever their ties artists like Coldplay and Tom Waits already are not distributing their most recent albums on Spotify windows phone marketplace is home to more than 40,000 apps according to a new study there's been a developer rushed lately about a third of the apps were added in the past three months of those added in the past month about seventy percent were free downloads the larger the App Store the more windows phone can compete with Android and Apple devices the study reports that 165 apps are added to windows marketplace every day malware attacks are at an all-time high this year McAfee reports and malware targeting Android devices continues to search all the mobile malware that came out in the third quarter targeted Android devices and infections grew thirty-seven percent from the second quarter common attacks are through text messages that collect personal information and steal money from the user some malware also records phone conversations to collect data and if you thought spam was down it is but now spam attacks are just more sophisticated targeting users more efficiently with personal info making it harder to spot a scam Electronic Arts the game maker behind best selling franchises like madden NFL battlefield and need for speed is experimenting with a free game business model for mobile devices EA has four free games in the Apple App Store but will expand that to about 14 by March and instead of charging for the game it'll charge for upgrade items in the game like that extra energy or better weapon apparently lots of people spend money on in-game items there's a freemium version of battlefield being worked on but it won't be the traditional first-person shooter right now the market for app games is split 60 percent pay and forty percent free Netflix is pushing to be a platform for original content and to doing so by bringing back the sitcom Arrested Development airing brand-new episodes that you can only get through netflix streaming service earlier this year Netflix also announced its airing an original series called house of cards starring Kevin Spacey the new Arrested Development episodes will come out in 2013 Wow for once Netflix didn't make a huge mistake those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet com and you just been loaded