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it's Thursday December 9th I'm Natali Morris coming to you from San Francisco this week and it's time to get loaded Netflix will soon offer Disney and ABC movies and TV shows to stream these will be available in Netflix watch instantly service and compete with Hulu the deal comes just as Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy announced his resignation Google announced a much-needed update to Google Groups this is an old service but it lags in usage behind Facebook groups the redesign lets you search and browse groups and postings as well as add these groups to your lists of favorites it also responds to keyboard shortcuts as well YouTube is running a popularity contest quite literally my YouTube is pitting recording artists like Justin Bieber Kanye West and Shakira against one another to see whose channel attracts the most fans the winning artists will be featured on the YouTube masthead on February 12th the contest ends February 5th it's a shameless way to get subscribers a few keen internet us have noticed that the new google chrome notebooks are missing the caps lock keys google says this will improve the quality of messaging since no one likes to read in all caps it makes me wonder if this could also be seen as an environmental improvement after all what is the carbon footprint of manufacturing that caps lock key bings newest map search feature is designed to help you in the mall Bing has mapped out local malls so that you can find your favorite stores and of course the food court unfortunately it doesn't work for mobile being maps which kind of defeats the purpose I guess you could print the maps out or just use those mapping kiosks and the new study shows that Android phone users consume more data than any other smartphone users this used to be true of iPhones but now Android phone users hold the title of data hogs probably because they're just so many of these phones and speaking of Android phones Google's new flagship phone the Nexus S has arrived here at CNET headquarters our own Kent German is reviewing the phone right now so make sure you visit scene at tv.com to see what he thinks of it those are your headlines for day I will see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris for cnet.com and you've just been loaded