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it's wednesday december eight I'm Natali Morris coming to you from San Francisco this week it's time to get loaded google took the wraps off its Chrome operating system and Chrome App Store on Tuesday the app store or marketplace is a place where web applications live in the web inside the Chrome browser and operating systems so it's kind of like a website that's customized for a web site a few examples are NPR and Amazon's Kindle for web that lets you read your books in your web browser this will launch in the chrome marketplace and in other browser ecosystems as well the chrome marketplace is open today in the u.s. only and where do you run these apps in the Chrome browser of course and where can you find a computer with the Chrome operating system well you can't just yet the chrome powered laptops are coming soon but not as soon as we thought google says they're delayed due to a few bugs due to be worked out Google is also teasing us with a new android tablet the company showed up a motorola tablet running the next version of android called gingerbread this was shown at a conference here in San Francisco but there are no real details about when or how much the next version of internet explorer will let you specify which websites are not allowed to track you the feature will allow users to subscribe to Tracking Protection lists which lists web addresses that you do not want to access your information this will prevent online tracking companies from snooping on your browsing habits it will be a feature on the up coming internet explorer 9 sprint may be looking to shut down Nextel in order to save some cash these are of course hard times for everyone sprint estimates that closing down nextel would save them about 11 billion dollars sprint purchased next tale in 2005 for 35 billion dollars and be careful clicking links in your Twitter feed a new virus was spreading in tweets with the URL shortener goo GL the virus tries to redirect you to a malicious site that tries to steal your passwords so if you click something that looks fishy in your twitter feed do not enter your password close that window and move on quickly three is out the new game has new graphics sound and eight new minigames it also has four new game modes it costs twenty dollars and finally youporn is involved in a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking user behavior to men in California have filed a class-action suit against the porn sites parent company for allegedly tracking their online behavior via a JavaScript code these men not only allege that you porn did this but also that they are still doing this so if you are on these adult sites and you think you're alone you're not you've been warned those are your headlines for today I will see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris for cnet.com and you've just been loaded