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we got a look at the new blackberry tour kindle books may soon include advertising and it may be illegal to implant a chip on your girlfriend it's Monday July sixth I'm Natali del Conte and it's time to get loaded I know a few Verizon customers who are getting pretty excited about the new blackberry tour it launches this weekend and of course cnet's own bonnie cha has already put it to the test take a look the tour will replace the blackberry 8830 world edition and brings a number of nice upgrades especially in design the Torkham buying some of the best aspects of the blackberry curve 8900 and the blackberry bold the tour is just a little bit heavier and bigger than the curve but it has a really nice solid and durable build and it's definitely much more pocket from you than the bulb it offers a beautiful display it's the same as the curves and has an extra sharp resolution so images and texts look smoother on screen and colors are nice and vibrant the tour's QWERTY keyboard is also excellent it's similar to the one found on the bold but since the tour is a little smaller in size the layout obviously isn't as roomy but still the buttons are a nice size and don't feel quite as plasticky as the curves the tour includes Microsoft Exchange of pop3 and imap emails port and and they've even expanded its I am client list to include Yahoo Google Talk aim and windows live like the 8830 the tour is of the world phone so it ships with a sim card and you can use it overseas and get voice coverage and 220 countries and data services in 175 countries when you're in the US it'll run on verizon's 3g network and during our test here in San Francisco this part from offered great call quality and data speeds you may soon see ads in your kindle books amazon has filed a patent application for something called on-demand generating ebook content with advertising the ads would not be static of course they would change over time and be relevant to the content that you're reading so for instance when I read Angela's Ashes all I wanted to do was eat fish and chips this would give me a location where ad for efficient chips shops should I ever read that book again a new facebook app for iphone is on its way although we don't know exact we won some features will include the ability to RSVP to events the ability to create new photo albums and upload photos to any album a new home screen better notifications and the ability to call or text people in your friend list no push notification though facebook says that will come with facebook 3.1 which they expect later this summer reports have surfaced of the new iphone 3gs overheating and malfunctioning and in some cases discoloration to the shell of the device in the meantime apple has released a new support document detailing the temperatures the phone should operate in these numbers sound pretty narrow but the phone should normally be operated between 0 and 35 degrees Celsius or for us Americans that works out to be 32 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit so does that mean by the end of the summer I should expect my new iphone 3gs to stop working in this new york city heat one of the most extensive Wi-Fi networks in europe is now residing in venice the city laid 10,000 kilometers of cables which is over 6,000 miles for those of us not familiar with the metric system the project blankets the entire city with Wi-Fi at anywhere between 20 and 100 megs per second the network cost the city 15 million dollars it's free to venetian citizens but seven dollars per day for tourists I think I need to go there to road test those beats the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a measure that would ban the forced implantation of trackable computer chips in human beings introduced by Philadelphia Democrat babette Joseph the law would ban RFID and other chips I guess they're afraid of big brother like futures where human beings are tracked like dogs technology enthusiasts however are finding more interesting ways to use these chips like tracking Alzheimer patients or security clearance for government workers in the meantime the law moves to the Pennsylvania Senate for consideration there's Wikipedia for when you want to look up facts there's chickapedia for when you want to look up information on attractive women now there's ji acha pedia for you guessed it looking up information on athletes the website is the creation of Douglas Warshaw a former news producer and will contain not only basic facts about each athlete but also these jocks every musing and ramblings like from their facebook and twitter pages the website hopes to have every single athlete in the world on it sounds useful when you play Trivial Pursuit and then your friends are into sports those are your headlines for today thank you for watching I'll see you tomorrow I'm Natali del Conte vecina TV and you've just been loaded