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it's Tuesday September 27 2011 I'm Jeff Bakalar from CNN com and it's time to get loaded a CNN exclusive report says sprint will be launching its own 4G LTE network early next year right now sprint uses wimax and this upgrade will put it on par with carriers like Verizon and AT&T who have the more advanced 4G technology and if reports are true that means all three carriers will be getting the iphone except for t-mobile Sprint is planning to announce details of the LTE network and an event next week the rumor train is chugging along next stop the kindle android tablet that supposedly will be announced wednesday techCrunch reports it'll be called the kindle fire and it'll have a 7-inch display about the same size as blackberries playbook when the news comes out tomorrow expect amazon to rave about all the media that can be played on it they have about 11,000 streaming shows for prime subscribers after that new deal they just signed with Fox and the Wall Street Journal says amazon just made several deals with magazine publishers as well kindle isn't the only tablet with rumor news Mashable is reporting that the facebook ipad app will finally be released and likely it'll be announced the same time as the iphone 5 on October fourth apparently this app has been done for some time but sources say the release was held up because Apple and Facebook just couldn't agree on terms but apparently Facebook won't disagree over one thing tracking your every move even if you're signed out of Facebook the news broke after a self labeled hacker from Australia made a blog post showing that Facebook's cookies will track the pages you visit after you log off Facebook's response the cookies are designed to prevent phishing attacks and Facebook won't use the data they collect facebook says they're looking at ways to avoid having the data collected but it will quote take a while sure Facebook we understand that's no problem we totally trust you in other facebook news the service Spotify is requiring new users to have a Facebook account to sign up for the service and it's ticking off users who don't like the idea of every single song they're listening to with Facebook servers discussion boards are flooded with displeased users who say it's a deterrent from joining hey I don't blame them it's not like I want people knowing I listened to air supply on repeat I just told everyone but you can always turn off the option to share by heading to facebook's privacy settings under apps and websites there's even a how-to today on cnet.com from the digital-to-analog social network one man in canada proves you can still do it old-school style by chucking bottles into the ocean for 15 years Harold Hackett has sent more than 4,800 messages into the Atlantic Ocean and he's even gotten more than 3,100 replies like real handwritten replies what a concept those are your headlines for today I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com and you've just been loaded