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it's Thursday februari 23rd 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded there may soon be loss protecting your right to control your personal data online the White House announced it is working with Congress to protect your online privacy and your right to know how that did is used under a consumer privacy Bill of Rights at the same time web giant Google Yahoo Microsoft and AOL have pledged to support a technology called do not track on web browsers so people can stop companies from tracking their online behavior there has been increasing criticism over how technology companies collect private data without the user knowing such as tracking your location or harvesting address books amazon has accused of playing hardball with publishers that wants to be on the Kindle e-reader amazon is dropping about 5,000 kindle titles under the independent publishers group after not renewing an agreement to carry the electronic versions of the books the print editions will still be sold on amazon t mobile's 4g will be faster next year t-mobile announced it is launching LTE 4G technology in the US thanks to money and spectrum space obtained from the failed AT&T merger the company plans to spend four billion dollars on the new hardware LTE 4G which is already in use by Verizon and AT&T would be a faster network than t-mobile's current hspa+ 4g sprint said it will be launching its LTE 4G network sometime this year new sneakers from Nike will let you finally prove to your buddies on the basketball court who jumps higher and runs faster called nike+ basketball the shoes have pressure sensors on the sole to measure how hard you're playing the data is sent to your iPhone to track your progress and users can compete by sharing stats with their friends and if basketball isn't your game there's also nike+ training the same concept but the sensors target feedback on various workout drills and challenges if you hate hunting for a place to charge your phone you're going to love researchers at Wake Forest University because they've come up with a way to just charge your phone by putting it in your pocket the team has come up with fabric that generates electricity when in contact with heat so just touching a piece of felt can recharge your battery this could be in a car we're sitting on your keister can improve the car's fuel mileage or fabric under roof tiles on a summer day can lower the electricity bills and this felt isn't expensive it would only cost one dollar to add a square to a cell phone cover the university is in talks with investors to produce powerful commercially those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you've just been loaded