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it's Wednesday August 10th 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on CNN com and it's time to get loaded in somewhat surprising news Apple has won a preliminary injunction against samsung's new galaxy tab 10.1 android powered tablet in europe samsung says the ruling was disappointing the company also says that the injunction was filed with no notice to samsung and that the order was issued for that any hearing or presentation of evidence from samsung the action is another move in the long and complicated relationship between the companies apple claims that samsung products infringe on apple's intellectual property while at the same time samsung is a major supplier of iphone and ipad parts walmart says that it plans to close down its mp3 download store at the end of the month the nation's largest retailer informed distribution and licensing partners of the coming closure in a letter but sales of physical music products like CDs will continue on walmart.com and brick-and-mortar stores the agar collective Anonymous has announced in a press release that it will shut down facebook on November fifth otherwise known as Guy Fawkes Day anonymous claims that they want to protect the freedom of information for the sake of your own privacy the company accuses Facebook of selling information to government agencies and giving access to security firms meanwhile Facebook has announced a new mobile application specifically for its messaging service dubs simply messenger facebook is making apps available for both Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems users can log in with their Facebook credentials and get access to existing chats and messages also included is group messaging and a component that lets users share photos and their location notably missing from the app is video chat that the company announced last month with Skype Twitter has opened up its Twitter image service to all Twitter users now every user will now see a camera icon in the far left of their status update box letting users choose an image to upload and embed in your twitter status photos will be hosted through photobucket and appear as a pic that Twitter link the company says it has yet to enable the feature for its mobile apps but the ability to tweet directly from the iphone will appear with the launch of iOS 5 and expect to see picture galleries in the new future amazon has launched its new Kindle Cloud reader a new web-based app that allows you to read your kindle ebooks from any browser on your pc or tablet the new app is html5 based and as opposed to iOS apps the new Cloud Reader now has links to purchase digital books right from the amazon kindle store additionally the app lets you store up to 50 megabytes on your ipad so you won't need an internet connection to read your books those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tank for cnet.com and you've just been loaded