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it's Friday June 4th on Marco saya and it's time to get loaded facebook launched a dedicated politics page you can now see how politicians elected officials and political campaigns use the site to connect with users facebook also has similar pages for topics like sports and celebrities you can find it at facebook.com slash US politics slacker radio 2 point 0 is now available for iphone and ipod touch this is a streaming music service available for most smartphones but the upgrade allows offline caching of radio stations so you can bring it with you on the subway this feature requires a plus subscription which is five dollars per month or forty-eight dollars a year without the plus subscription the service is free to download and use microsoft and united airlines are offering zune in-flight audio to passengers as part of its in-flight entertainment this will give passengers 21 new music playlists like opera piano jazz and electric dance programmed by zune hitachi LG is working on mass producing a blu-ray optical drive combined with a solid state hard drive they're calling it the high drive and it will be built into laptops alongside the hard disk drive to help boost performance the company is planning to begin mass-production in august finally on your next Jetstar Airways flight you may be able to request an iPad along with that extra pillow the Australian airline is testing an in-flight iPad rental service for flights over 90 minutes the test will happen in the last two weeks of june and ipads will rent for the u.s. dollar equivalent of eight dollars and fifty cents that's your news for now we will be back later today with more thanks for watching a Marco seiya with cnet TV and you've just been loaded you