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it's Tuesday November 1st 2011 I'm Bridget Carey of cnet.com and it's time to get loaded some light has been shed on what happened to the courier the tablet project Microsoft trashed in 2010 it was going to be a two screen device that would use a pen according to stop interviews woven together by CNET the team behind the courier didn't want to have a typical Windows experience and it focused more on content creation than having the classic programs like Outlook it wasn't to replace a PC but rather be a companion problem was that didn't sit well with management like chairman Bill Gates after all Microsoft Office was a massive money maker so why not have it in the tablet the conflict caused the project to be scrapped but fast forward to today and the Windows 8 tablet which won't probably come out until the end of next year isn't exactly your typical Windows experience funny how that happens now Microsoft has to play catch-up with Apple Amazon and a slew of android models 18 teased first LTE 4G smartphones are arriving Sunday the HTC vivid and Samsung Galaxy s2 sky rocket will work on 18 T's HSPA+ and LTE networks and both will have the Android Gingerbread operating system on Sunday 18 T will also expand its LTE network to Boston Washington d.c Baltimore and Athens Georgia it already was in five markets in September and the goal is to reach 15 markets by the end of the year next week Barnes and Noble will unveil its next-generation Android color tablet to face off against the Amazon Kindle Fire the name and details behind the second installment of the Nook Color will be not on Monday at a new york press conference the announcement comes just one week before the Kindle Fire ships with a $200 price tag so we'll just wait to see what price and features the note can offer to trump that cheap fire Google Reader has a new look today the application that pulls in website fees and search terms has been revamped to integrate more with the Google Plus social network but if you poke around and absolutely hate the change google it to export your feeds into another feed reader the creator of Second Life has launched a new e-commerce website for people to buy and sell small jobs from each other it goes by the quirky name of coffee and power a similar concept to sites like Zaarly or TaskRabbit except coffee and power has a twist taken from Second Life the credits or cost of the services their virtual currency you can receive payment in C dollars and use that money to buy other services or you could spend one real-world dollar to get one C dollar but if you want to cash out you only make 85 cents for every C dollar in your account those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you've just been loaded