Gadgetory

it's Wednesday April 13th I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded cisco is shutting down business on the flip cam Cisco purchased the company that made the popular consumer camcorder for 590 million dollars just two years ago I guess they really didn't know what to do with it and high def camcorders and smartphones kind of put the stink on this kind of product you can now watch your rented voodoo movies in your browser voodoo is the video movie streaming service that was purchased by walmart it allowed you to watch movies on a voodoo compatible TV or blu-ray player but now you can use the browser to rentals are good for 24 hours and Voodoo's library has over 17,000 movies and TV shows a program called fire say lets you use voice control in facebook this is a Firefox extension that can already do things like a simple Google search or Hulu video commands it now works with Facebook too but it only controls your webcam but imagine being able to like and poke without even touching a button HTC unveiled the HTC Sensation it's an android phone that will run on vodafone overseas and it comes with something called HTC watch this lets you watch movies and TV shows from a library of content that you don't have to download you just stream it directly from HTC you can buy or rent movies but if you buy them the videos are available to you on up to five different HTC devices it's a nice feature but Nokia didn't really have success with selling media that was tied to devices Nokia's comes with music was shut down just this year we'll see if HTC can make this work speaking of Nokia the company launched two new phones the e6 and the x7 both are running the updated version of symbian which they are calling Anna even though Nokia is moving towards Windows Phone 7 Anna will be pushed out to more phones later this year improvements include new icons faster internet browsing and new and improved OV Maps sprint also launched a mobile phone based music service sprint music plus is now a mobile app that you can access on a sprint phone or at sprint com it lets you discover find and play music you can also make playlists by ringtones and entire albums songs are also drm-free so you can take them with you to other gadgets and devices microsoft's version of Google Street View is called Street side it will involve real-life images that live inside of Bing Maps Microsoft has started the process of photographing the planet they started in London Street side will have 360-degree camera images and points of interest such as landmarks and pubs as expected Apple did launch a new version of Final Cut Pro X this is the movie making software that most digitally produce movies and videos including the one you're watching right now are made with the new Final Cut has new editing tools background rendering and a new interface it will be available in June and cost 299 dollars replacing the old and very expensive final cut studio suite that was previously nine hundred ninety nine dollars and finally fans of Tolkien will be happy to know that the upcoming movie The Hobbit is being filmed at 48 frames per second rather than the usual 24 frames per second this should give moviegoers a much better picture quality and make the 3d a lot less painful to watch for those of you that have a problem with 3d part 1 of The Hobbit is due out in December of 2012 that's your news of the day I will see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris with cnet and you just been loaded