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it's Thursday November fourth I'm Natali del Conte mean it's time to get loaded there is no Facebook phone at least not yet facebook's mobile announcement on wednesday had to do with a single sign in feature for mobile devices so this is a lot like facebook connect where you sign on to other sites with your facebook account now you can sign into mobile apps with your facebook account but you do have to be signed into the facebook app for this to work if you are other mobile apps will be able to see that and sign you in facebook also enhanced Facebook Places allowing local businesses to offer deals to people who check into those places an obvious affront to Foursquare this is a big week for Microsoft with connect and Windows Phone 7 coming out microsoft expects it will also be a big year with five million connect units being sold in 2010 that's lofty especially considering that there are only two more months left in 2010 but of course they're the biggest shopping months of the year so we'll see if they can do it i actually think they might AT&T announced 18t for health it's a new division aimed at using technology to automate health services for doctors and hospitals the goal is to use a tts basic networking and phone services to streamline medical record-keeping and communication myspace is not in a good way the big boss Rupert Murdoch who owns News Corp which owns MySpace called the site's losses quote not acceptable or sustainable he called myspace a problem which management teams would have to address ouch of course News Corp did purchase myspace at the height of its popularity for 580 million dollars and it's been all Facebook ever since I'm sure you know the story you saw the movie facebook credits are now the official payment method for the social games made by game giant EA those are the games that EA got from acquiring play fish last year this means that if you want to buy virtual things or upgrades to your characters you have to use facebook credits you can buy them online or at Target incidentally foursquare is giving local businesses the right to revoke mayorship to anyone they think has earned it erroneously becoming a mayor of a location on foursquare often gives people advantage as in discounts which is why some people are incented to fake it but no more you can't keep your mayorship if you've been unscrupulous and really gaming Foursquare that's low 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