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Investigating the whole thing. trace? >> trace: senior correspondent eric shawn live in new york. thank you. news bytes now, an apparent security flaw on facebook giving some hackers access to founder mark zuckerbergs personal photos, including this one showing him holding what very much looks like a chicken. and this one with his girlfriend and dog. facebook officials blamed a software error. well, the authorized biography of apples co-founder and former ceo officially the best selling book on ...

Phones over this detector thing it plans to roll out wallet this summer and certain android phones will be the first to get them. news bytes now and amazon trying to please an angry group of little monsters. the web retailer once again letting customers download lady gagas new album born this way for the bargain basement price of 99 cents today. amazon tried to discount on monday but it proved so popular that it crashed the companys servers. the online call service skype suffering a global servi...

>> shepard: so, you have made a big purchase lately? microsoft did a whopper. the first of tonights news bytes. microsoft announcing it will buy the internet phone service skype for $8.5 billion in cold hard cash. microsoft plans to link the service to x boxes. think of that and windows smart phones. last years skypes 170 million users made more than 200 billion minutes of voice and video calls. facebooks term of service require users to be at least 13 years old, you know. but according to proje...

Much more on charlie sheen and a slide show of infamous celebrity meltdowns foxnews.com. you will find tonight home page. news bytes now. movie rentals are coming to facebook. warner brothers now testing a service that lets users rent the bat man movie the dark night while visiting its facebook page, $3 for 48 hours. company officials say they plan to add more movies and an option to buy in the months ahead. another big step in the technology takeover. reportedly planning to do away with stamps....

[ laughter ] >> yeah, is he a busy man. by the way, just in case the season does get started late, indianapolis is holding open two dates for the 2012 super bowl. im hearing chargers-giants. >> shepard: you are not listening to the right people then. you know one thing im curious about is how in the world they kept this thing so quiet. there has been almost no leaking out of there. >> there really hasnt, at least on the nfl owners side. the players come out, the players talk a little bit because...

Any others arguing they could prejudice potential jurors. also today, congresswoman gabby giffords wishing her husband happy birthday through her twitter account. maybe of her staff is said to have typed the message directed at mark kelly and his twin brother scott. the congresswoman currently recovering in a houston rehab center. news bytes now. internet giant amazon challenging netflix with a new streaming video service. amazon prime as they are calling it members of that will get instant acce...

Night. the show goes on. by the way, i was in the gratto on business. always working, shep. >> shepard: always. proud of you, trace. >> thank you. >> shepard: news bytes now l.g. unveiling what it calls the worlds first 3-d smart phone. look at this thing. a spokesman says a pair of cameras on the back, two on the back will allow users to take 3 d photographs and video. you wont need those attractive 3 d glasses apparently. the company has not provided a release date or a price. spriltd "sports ...

Shep? >> shepard: rich edson live in d.c. thank you, sir. news bytes now. google reports it got 75,000 job applications last week. thats a record for the company. the internet giant looking to hire more than 6,000 workers in 2011, more than any year in its history. expanding in areas including mobile services, alps and advertising. of course, one of googles main competitors for those ad dollars is facebook. social networking site celebrating its seventh birthday today it reportedly has more than...