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it's Thursday October 27 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on sina com and it's time to get loaded sony ericsson phones such as the Xperia line of Android phones will now simply be Sony phones sony paid one point 47 billion to ericsson to take so ownership of the phone line that adds their tenured joint venture sony's chief executives said consumers can expect better integration between Sony's phones and their other devices like televisions laptops and tablets a new report on internet trends says we've gone beyond the PC era the majority of real-time entertainment being consumed online is going to our TVs game consoles set-top boxes tablets and smartphones and less than half is being consumed on desktop and laptop computers Netflix is leading the trend in North America followed by basic web sites and YouTube in third and speaking of YouTube the site will soon launch its own dedicated channels offering shows that are exclusive to YouTube The Wall Street Journal is reporting YouTube has made numerous deals with media companies such as News Corp and famous personalities like Tony Hawk and they'll be creating about 20 premium channels with several hours of content each week this would be the first time YouTube is making its own content instead of relying on third parties to drive traffic YouTube is not officially commented yet though on the plans a class-action lawsuit has been filed in Canada against research in motion the company behind blackberry the reason being blackberry customers were not reimbursed for the time they couldn't connect when service was out two weeks ago blackberry is currently offering a hundred dollars worth of free blackberry apps for customers to download to make up for those service issues researcher motion is not having a great month it also just announced it's delaying the upgrade to the PlayBook operating system until februari it's not this month as first announced and we'll wrap up things today with some music news the British band coldplay has forbid its latest record from being available on streaming music websites like Spotify Rdio and rhapsody although their record label EMI seems to be scratching their head over why they're against dreaming after all bands get paid every time a song heard on these services and coldplay isn't the only one Tom Waits is also not putting his album on streaming sites and you can't find Adele's best-selling album 21 on Spotify it's like Metallica and Napster all over again except it's not because no one is stealing music but hey if it makes you happy keep on fighting the good fight you cool rebellious musicians those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you've just been loaded