Gadgetory

it's thursday march first 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded today's top mobile players are all well known their samsung LG HTC motorola but this year expect to hear more about two other smartphone vendors ZTE and huawei previously these makers really had most of their business in China but they've been making a big push to get into the US market at this week's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona Spain they got plenty of attention Huawei showed off the world's fastest smartphone and first 10 inch tablet with a quad-core processor and ZTE it announced 15 different phones prepaid phone providers like metro pcs and leap wireless are starting to carry their lower cost phones and t-mobile even carried a huawei tablet facebook has introduced three new advertising methods for brand pages when a brand or company page makes a post such as the status update or photo that post can be pushed out to fans and show up as an advertisement on the right side of their main Facebook feed page there are also new spaces to place an ad like the Facebook log out page Facebook has 37 million users logging out each day so that's quite a few eyeballs and mobile users will see more ads too and their newsfeed and on the mobile log out page amazon announced it has more than a hundred thousand ebooks in its kindle owners lending library and it just started with about 5,000 books back in november now the wording can get confusing but this has nothing to do with your local library rather it's a perk for amazon prime paid subscribers and allows a customer to check out one book a month from the selection with no due dates amazon also said it's seen a growing number of customers reading and buying independently published books others can get on kindle devices through the Kindle direct publishing program and so far those independently published ebooks have paid out 1.8 million dollars to authors Netflix subscribers are saying goodbye to nearly a thousand movies from the instant streaming library as Netflix has lost the rights to stream movies from stars the movie channel cut off its four-year contract with Netflix and thereby cut off access to Disney movies and other classic it's like Beetlejuice and Scarface recently netflix has been focused on creating several original series as it competes with HBO for viewers as smart phones autocorrect can be a spelling lifesaver or cause a massive misunderstanding as one student at a Technical College in Georgia discovered the hard way a student meant to text the phrase gonna be at West Hall today but instead of saying gonna autocorrect changed it to read gun man be at West Hall today to make it worse the text was sent to the wrong number the receiver alerted the police and authorities locked down West Hall middle and West Hall High School ya gotta check your texts are you gonna be in trouble those are headlines for today I'm Bridget Gary for cnet.com and you just been loaded