Free mobile services to contact Japan

Links from Tuesday's episode of Loaded:

• Microsoft is said to be scrapping the Zune player, but not the Zune brand.

• Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile follow AT&T's lead and drop some or all charges for calls and texts to Japanese, or connected to earthquake relief.

• AT&T is about to set broadband data caps for U-verse customers.

• Yahoo adds Facebook chat to its Yahoo Mail client.

• AOL and T-Mobile launch Play by AOL Music for Android to stream music to your mobile phone.

• T-Mobile announces a 10GB per month data plan that does not come cheap.

• Time Warner Cable launches the first iPad app that will play live TV on a tablet.

• Madden NFL will launch in August, despite whatever resolution the NFL can come to in its current union dispute.