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>> Facebook bids farewell to Scrabulous. XM and Sirius are now one and E-Prescriptions are a way of the future. It's Wednesday, July 30, I'm Natali Del Conti and it's time to get Loaded. ^M00:00:11 [ Music ] ^M00:00:13

>> The imitation Scrabble game Scrabulous has been pulled from Facebook, so it appears that Hasbro got its way for now. Hasbro owns licensing to Scrabble and had requested that the game be pulled from the Internet last week. The game went missing from Facebook on Tuesday when users got an error message. So now the questions remains, will Scrabulous fans migrate to the real version of the game? It looks as though they will because the real version of Scrabble was crushed on Tuesday. Personally, I don't care much about Scrabulous and I think the owners got greedy, so this serves them right. I'll play the legit version or I would if I felt like getting my butt kicked. I'm still bad at Facebook's Scrabbles, it's embarrassing. Dell wants back into the MP3 Player market. Reuters is reporting that the company may release an iPod competitor for less than a hundred dollar in the fall. Dell has already tried this though, in 2003 they begin selling the DJ Ditty MP3 player, but I don't know a single person who ever owned one. They pulled out of that market all together in 2006, but maybe they've had an epiphany on how to make it work we'll have to wait and see. It's official XM and Sirius are now one. The company is called Sirius XM Radio Incorporated and will trade under Sirius Sticker symbol SIRI. Together they have 18.5 million subscribers, over 300 stations and approximately 10% penetration in the home and car market. Toshiba launched a new HD camcorder for under $400 this week. We haven't seen any HD camcorders for that cheap, they usually have them between $700 and $1000. For $350 you'll get 64 megs of internal memory, plus the ability it use a memory card, 10 megapixels, 5 time optical zoom and a 720p camcorder -- not at all bad. It should be out within the next week or two, so look for our review here on CNET. You can now use your Bluetooth headsets to voice dial on your Treo 800W. Palm released a software update this week that lets users activate voice dialing over a Bluetooth connection. After all, how safe is using a Bluetooth if you still have to look at the phone to dial. Go to palm.com to get the software upgrade. A new Medicare initiative is giving doctors incentives to go electronic whether they like it or not. E-prescriptions that are sent electronically from your doctor's office directly to the pharmacy are becoming the growing trend in the practice. But now the government is taking matters into their own hands by making it mandatory. Doctors that comply will be given a percentage of their billable Medicare charges per year while those that maintain the old fashion route could face penalties in the next few years. I was still a little baffled when a doctor actually hands me a handwritten prescription. It's almost like I don't even know what to do with real paper anymore. The quicker this happens, the better. iPhone users with disabilities are now eligible for discounted text messaging, web browsing and email. AT&T announced the Text Accessibility Plan on Tuesday, which gives customers with disabilities unlimited use of these services for $65 per month. Pay per use voice is also included in this plan for 40 cents per minute. I'm not gonna call this a completely altruistic move, but it's still a very nice thing to do on the part of AT&T. To qualify for the iPhone 3G TAP Plan you have to buy an iPhone and sign-up for the service at the regular rates and then apply for the Disability discount. You can download an application from wireless.att.com. Amazon is about to take on PayPal and Google Checkout. The company launched its own payment service this week and it's called Checkout by Amazon. It has a one-click payment option, tools for managing shipping charges, sales tax, and promotions and something called Amazon Simple Pay, which allows consumers to use their Amazon account information to pay for purchases on other websites. Google has been slow to catch PayPal in this market, but even if Amazon's version only succeeded for sales just within Amazon, that would still be a success. IBM has some really bad news for us. The company's X-Force 2008 mid-year trend report found that hackers are able to launch an attack on your computer in less than 24 hours from the time that the vulnerability was made or discovered. So basically the bad guys are getting faster at stealing information from your browser or operating system. They can even get that information from security patches that software companies release to fix holes. Meaning that when a company sends out a fix to a vulnerability, it alerts hackers that it exists and then they can sneak in and exploit it before it ever gets fixed. This is scary. Make sure your antivirus programs are updated and running and for the love of god, don't open attachments or click links from unfamiliar emails. Microsoft has a lead foot these days. The company has decided to double down its efforts in the automotive industry. A Microsoft spokesperson said that the company would increase headcount in operating expenses by 30% in its efforts to dominate software in the auto industry. Microsoft has already put a lot of work into Sync, its collaboration with Ford that lets drivers control their phones, music players and navigation system with voice command. Their next endeavor will include bringing Live Search to the cars, so drivers can use Microsoft for more localized search on the go. Those are all your headlines for today, but I will be back tomorrow with more. Thank you for watching. I'm Natali Del Conte with CNET TV and you've just been Loaded. ^M00:05:03 [ Music ]