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it's Monday September 13 2010 I'm Jeff Bakalar and it's time to get loaded it appears YouTube is ready to start testing live-streaming functionality today and tomorrow in conjunction with four partner websites now this isn't the first time YouTube has used live streaming the company debuted the technology last week when it webcasts the Google press conference that unveiled google instant search yahoo has announced its plans to give its mail service a much needed revamp this fall in order to improve service and reverse the trend of dropping users codenamed minty the update will bring with it a sleeker design integration with social networks and an overall quicker performance especially for those users overseas if you live in China you'll be able to get your hands on an ipad apple announced that only the Wi-Fi ipad will be hitting store shelves in the Middle Kingdom starting on September 17th and it will be available in the 16 32 64 gigabyte versions starting at 30 988 you on here's another word of caution when it comes to posting too much information on social networks three local men in New Hampshire burglarized more than 18 homes simply by checking the status updates on Facebook of their victims who announced that they were going on vacation or weren't home all told police recovered between 100 and 200 thousand dollars of stolen property even more interesting police caught the burglars by listening for a specific type of firework that was stolen from a victim's house sounds like good detective work all around those your headlines for today I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com and you've just been loaded