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it's tuesday august nine 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on cnet com and it's time to get loaded Research In Motion purchased qnx the makers of super secure and real-time operating systems to power their playbook tablet and now the new software will be coming to smartphones early next year the blog the boy genius report says that the blackberry cult will be the first phone to run the new OS the site anticipates it will contain a 1 gigahertz CPU and arrived in the first quarter of next year apple has released a tool so that users can create their own recovery disk Mac OS 10 line automatically creates a recovery partition when installed on a computer but that doesn't help you much if your hard drive crashes the line recovery disk will create bootable disk on any USB stick or any external drive larger than 1 gigabyte but actual OS installation files must still be downloaded from Apple servers if you're thinking about getting an e-reader for school Barnes and Noble has a deal for you the bookseller is now running a deal to get one hundred dollars worth of ebooks featuring 12 classics along with their study guides all you have to do is purchase and register a nuk e reader before October thirty-first most of the books are in the public domain but you can now get the sparknotes instead of reading A Tale of Two Cities skype has been updated on Mac OS 10 to support line and now HD video version 5.3 will finally take advantage of new facetime HD webcams built into some macs or you can purchase the HD webcam yourself skype recommends that you have an internet connection of at least one point five megabits per second to make HD video calls researchers recommend that you should change all of your passwords if your laptop gets stolen computer security experts at the black hat hackers conference have discovered how to bypass the password protection system in Microsoft Windows operating system users typically have windows or their web browsers store they're commonly used passwords for websites researchers developed a tool that extracts those passwords from everything from your email to your bank account finally you expect it lines to form for the new iphone 5 just not before the device has even been announced Rob Shoesmith has already started waiting in line for the next iPhone and has even started to market himself on Twitter and his website good luck with that Rob reports suggest that the fifth iphone won't arrive until late august at the earliest or as late as october those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tank for cnet.com and you've just been loaded