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get your battle gear on it's time for tablet Wars and food fights I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update Microsoft is having a secret press event in Los Angeles Monday afternoon and everyone is buzzing about rumors on what Microsoft could possibly be unveiling if it's being shown off in LA you know there's an entertainment focus around this thing so expect movies or music to be involved the word from some insiders is that it could be a tablet but really a tablet it could it be something that upstages the Windows 8 tablets coming out this fall because that would really get Microsoft's and vendors upset so could it be something different like an e-reader or a 7-inch entertainment device and let's not forget that last month Microsoft invested six hundred million dollars into the Nook and became a partner with Barnes & Noble's so it's all very intriguing Vizio is known for making televisions and blu-ray players but now for the first time it's selling computers available today that start at $900 vizio is all-in-one desktops are like their own little entertainment hub they come with a remote a subwoofer and HDMI ports so you could just hook up your cable box or video game system right into it it's also got this slick looking keyboard and a trackpad for a mouse vizio also launched a 15-inch laptop as well as the thin in light ultra book in both a 14 and 15 inch model in the tablet races the nope just inched ahead of Amazon's Kindle a web traffic report in June shows that more people are browsing the web with a nuke them with a Kindle but the iPad is still by far the leader of the race followed by the samsung galaxy tablet Facebook will soon be asking you for your cell phone number to increase security on the social network if your password is compromised Facebook will be able to reset it and use your cell phone for verification The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is spending 1.2 billion dollars to acquire Yammer a service for creating internal social networks for workplaces think of it it as a private Facebook just for your employees that would mean Microsoft will have more tools to compete against Google's cloud offerings and a nine-year-old schoolgirl in the UK is making a difference thanks to her lunch blog she took photos and commented and rated the school lunches she got and it quickly became popular it's at more than three views the blog went viral causing worldwide debate about the quality of school lunches and many children also sent her photos of their lunches the school asked her to shut it down because of the attention it was bringing but she won this food fight on Friday the school said during a live radio interview that the litter keep the block which was also raising money for charity that's your tech news update for today for more on the story since today's show visit cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded in new york I'm Bridget Carey