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it's Wednesday September 8th I'm Marco saya and it's time to get loaded google is launching its own web TV service this fall the CEO Eric Schmidt said the service will allow you to browse the internet on your TV for free and sony has agreed to support the service on it sets google says it plans to work with a variety of program makers and electronics manufacturers Google TV is slated to hit before the end of the year in the US and worldwide next year the samsung fascinate is on verizon's online store today and they're offering a special buy one get one free promotion if you buy the phone with a two-year contract for 199 you get a second fascinate for free you'll still need to sign up for two-year agreements on both phones plus the minimum monthly data plan and the 100-dollar rebate for the free phone and the wii too probably won't be out for years we don't even know if it will be called the we too and we don't have any real details about it we do know that Nintendo is working on something big in the console space and met Rhodes co-creator says it will surprise us hmm and microsoft plans to unveil internet explorer 9 next week but there's a video of the new user interface floating around on the web pictures of the browser leaked last month and now we can see it in action it's using a minimalist design and it scored 95 out of 100 on the acid three test which measures how well the browser conforms to specific web standards the beta version of IE 9 is due out on September 15th and a Japanese journalist used Twitter to escape from captivity in Afghanistan kosuke sunni oka had been m.i.a since april first he managed to send out a tweet with his location while teaching a soldier how to access the internet on a cell phone he's now back home safe in Tokyo those are all your headlines for today I'm Markel CEO with cnet.com and you've just been loaded you