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it's Thursday December 8 2011 I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com and it's time to get loaded for those of you eagerly awaiting the arrival the next flagship Android phone be prepared to be disappointed Verizon have been coy about a launch date for the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone and sales documents hapless to this Friday December ninth as the due date now the carrier has declined to comment at all about a potential launch time for the American debut of the first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone on live has finally unveiled its cloud gaming service out for tablets you may recall that on live allows gamers to play console quality games over Wi-Fi 4g or 3g on live servers process all the graphics and then send the video back to your supported device there is a little lag involved but not enough to make games unplayable the new version works on the ipad and some android tablets additionally the company will be releasing a universal wireless control for fifty dollars that will work with many touchscreen tablets Kiwis are the first in the world to get their hands on Facebook's new Timeline feature the company chose New Zealand as its test market while continues to work out the kinks and flush out the service when widely available timeline will give Facebook users the chance to see status updates posts and photos in chronological order no word on when it will become available to the rest of the world Microsoft has had a big week first updates for Windows 8 and the new media channels for the Xbox and now for the first time ever Microsoft gaming content is available on Apple products gamers can download the free Xbox Live apps onto their iOS devices and play with their avatars connect with friends or keep up with breaking gaming news we first told you about verizon's plans to create a streaming TV and movie service yesterday well today more details have emerged according to TechCrunch verizon is partnering with red box of the one dollar movie rental fame to provide digital entertainment subscriptions starting next May the monthly service will be available for a variety of devices I android Roku xbox Google TV but not traditional set-top cable boxes have you ever seen an actor in a TV show or movie and you couldn't place your finger on who it is hulu has implemented a new feature that solves that problem it's called face match when the video is paused the viewer can hover their mouse over the actors face revealing details about that actor facematch only works if you enable it in the settings those are your headlines for today I'm Cara tsuboi for cnet com