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it's Tuesday December 14th I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded microsoft plans to show off tablets at the 2011 consumer electronics show in las vegas now i know they did this last year with the HP Slate but that was never really a real thing microsoft says they are ready with tablets this year and they will be real and they will hit the market manufacturers are to include Dell and Samsung Dell is working on acquiring a data storage company called compellent technologies compellent is a cloud storage company perhaps indicating the Dell wants to start selling machines with less on-board storage and more cloud based strategy the deal is said to be worth nine hundred and sixty million dollars Google wants to help you help out technology noobs the company has launched a site called teach parents tech it has simple tutorials to help people in your life who can't fly around a browser and a keyboard like you can you can find these fun tutorials and watch them and also send them at teach parents tech org a new study shows that Americans spend just as much time online as they do watching television in fact the amount of time people have spent online has increased 121 percent in the last five years according to forrester people under 30 are spending an average of 12 hours per day online while people over 66 are spending an average of eight hours per day this all makes me very glad that my show is on the internet and another study that's bad for old media comes from in stat it shows that physical disks sales like DVDs and blu-ray discs are expected to decline by 4.6 billion dollars by the year 2014 people will opt instead to stream movies and videos increasing the revenue of streamed content from 2.3 billion dollars to 6.3 billion dollars again making me glad that i work in online video and finally here is the perfect gift for the Jedi Knight in your life the r2d2 headphones from kholoud cost about fifty dollars they also come with ear cups designed in the vein of stormtroopers Darth Vader or an x-wing fighter those are your headlines for today remember that you can find links to anything we've discussed here at cnet com / loaded I'll see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris for Cena back home and us unloaded