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Loaded: Sony to enter tablet market

2011-04-26
it's Tuesday April 26 I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded Facebook has started rolling out facebook deals there Groupon competitor it offers local deals that you can share with your Facebook friends it launches today in Austin Atlanta Dallas San Diego and San Francisco facebook also launched something called the send button which is like the like button but not so public you will soon start to see these littered all over the web when you push it you can share an article photo or page with a select few friends on Facebook rather than your entire feed so now you don't have to be quite so embarrassed to like the things you like sony announced a new lineup of android tablets today they run the tablet specific honeycomb version of android and they are called the sony tablets the s-1 is the 9 inch version the s2 has 25 inch displays that fold together like a book both can link to the Sony Reader store and Android PlayStation content which is very cool they come out in the fall yahoo has purchased into now a TV check-in service it's kind of like Foursquare for TV watching you tell your friends and family what you are watching and share it through the app the app scans the airwaves from the television and knows what you're watching was just kind of cool it can share this with your Facebook and Twitter friends and it's no iPad but the Barnes & Noble Nook is now more of a tablet than an e-reader because it can run apps this is called nook apps in their apps for email calendar contacts and more it can also run adobe flash and adobe air the color milk runs android but it can't run all android marketplace apps there are specific apps designed for the nook and right now they're about 125 of them last week we reported on a tmobile app called bobsled that lets you make calls to your facebook friends in facebook chat on your mobile device well that doesn't work anymore t-mobile shut it down because users were confusing it with the real facebook chat and Facebook complained t-mobile said it would redesign the app so users aren't so confused that's your news of the day I will see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris with Cena you've just been loaded
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