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it's Thursday November eighteenth I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded the maker is a farmville are set to launch in cityville farmville is the game that gained popularity on Facebook City bill will be a like-minded social game where you build a city from the ground up it will be available in English French Italian Spanish and German when it launches in the coming weeks on tuesday Apple announced that iTunes is the first online music store to sell the Beatles music apparently the negotiation was heated according to the New York Post both Google and Amazon were bidding for these rights these are heavy hitters but we don't know how much money it took for Apple to win the war I'm guessing a lot 80 now has a mifi it was the only major cellular carrier that didn't have one this is a mobile 3g device that brings you Wi-Fi data over 80 s 3g network the mifi 2372 launches on november 21st and it costs fifty dollars with a 100-dollar mail-in rebate plans start at thirty-five dollars per month google docs now supports editing on mobile devices if you're a google docs power user like most of us here at cnet you know that editing a Google spreadsheet on a mobile device is murder but no more google docs now has been optimized for mobile on all mobile browsers including the ipad google has also made peace in France the company reached an agreement with the French book publisher called hatchet live ray I'm not sure if I'm saying that right the agreement allows Google to scan thousands of out of print books for google books they can sell those books as ebooks but they have to be pre-approved by the publisher Google will share revenue with hatchet but the revenue share was not disclosed and finally do you ever stare at a vending machine wondering what you're in the mood for now the vending machine will help you out a Japanese canned drink machine uses facial recognition to recommend a drink based on who's standing in front of it an old man perhaps a nice ginger ale a young kid maybe they want a dr. pepper it sounds ridiculous but apparently sales on those machines have tripled as a result though zero headlines for today see you tomorrow I'm Natali Morris for cnet.com and you've just been loaded