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it's Wednesday februari 16th I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did speak about Internet freedom on Tuesday but we didn't get many concrete plans as to what the government plans to do to ensure this internationally the State Department does have to walk a fine line ensuring security from cyber criminals and terrorists but also they want to ensure equal unfettered access so no word on how they're going to do that yet in related news we do know that the Obama administration plans to increase the budget for cybersecurity at home Monday's budget proposal included more money for security research and development to reduce the risk of insider threats and make sure the programs that run our national utilities are not threatened this is just a proposal but it would kick into effect in 2012 leapfrogged announced a tablet for children it's the leappad explorer it looks like a kid-friendly version of a tablet it has games and activities to help children learn to read count practice vocabulary and more it also has a camera a video recorder a microphone and a 5 inch color touchscreen it will cost $99 when it comes out this summer Apple has enabled subscriptions in the app store for things like magazines newspapers and videos this means that publishers of content will be able to set the price and time frame of your subscriptions these are subscriptions for the mac app store and the itunes app store apple will process the payments through your iTunes account and take thirty percent of the revenue this is the same subscription service that News Corp's the daily uses and if it feels like your cell phone bill is always higher than you anticipated it's probably because of taxes a new report from que se partners shows that customers in Nebraska Washington and New York are paying the highest percentage of tax on wireless bills the rate is over twenty percent of the total amount in these states the national average is not much better at sixteen percent unfortunately this is not very well regulated and municipalities can make changes to these taxes as they see fit so the customer gets shafted logitech will upgrade its video streaming service to stream to iphone ipad and ipod touch Logitech's life-size video center is a product for business it's a stream video to employees for the purpose of training or meeting it's not a two-way communication tool it only sends video out to approve people who can now watch it on iOS devices and finally a German man received honorable mention in this year's World Press Photo Contest for taking photos of Google Street view images he put his camera in front of his computer and photographed images of unfortunate events that were on google street view like this one and this one and this one he called his photo essay a series of unfortunate events you'll want to page through these find the link at cnet com flash loaded that's your news of the day I will see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris for cnet and you've just been loaded