It's Wednesday, February 16, I'm Natali Morris. And it's time to get loaded.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did speak about internet freedom on Tuesday, but we didn't get many concrete plans as to what the government plans to do to insure this internationally. The State Department does have to walk a fine line ensuring security from cyber criminals and terrorists, but also they want to ensure equal unfettered access though no word on how they're gonna do that yet.

In related news, we do know that the Obama Administration plans to increase the budget for cyber security at home. Monday's budget proposal included more money for security research and development to reduce the risk of insider threats and make sure the programs that run our national utilities are not threatened. This is just a proposal, but it'll kick into effect in 2012.

Leapfrog announced a tablet for children. It's the LeapPad Explorer. It looks like a kid-friendly version of a tablet. It has games and activities to help children learn to read, count, practice vocabulary and more. It also has a camera, a video recorder, a microphone and a five-inch color touchscreen. It'll cost 99 dollars when it comes out this summer.

Apple has enabled subscriptions in the App store for things like magazines, newspapers and videos. This means that publishers of content will be able to set the price and timeframe of your subscriptions. These are subscriptions for the Mac app store and the ITunes app store. Apple will process the payments through your ITunes account and take 30% of the revenue. This is the same subscription service that news corps The Daily uses.

And if you feel like your cellphone bill is always higher than you anticipated, it's probably because of taxes. A new report from KSE partner shows that customers in Nebraska, Washington, and New York are paying the highest percentage of tax on wireless bills. The rate is over 20% of the total amount in these states. The national average is not much better at 16%. Unfortunately this is not very well regulated, and municipalities can make changes to these taxes as they see fit, so the customers get shafted.

Logitech will upgrade its video streaming service to stream to IPhone, IPad and IPod touch. Logitech lifesize video center is a product for businesses to stream video to employees for the purpose of training or meeting. It's not a two-way communication tool, it only sends video out to approve people who can now watch it on IOS devices.

And finally, a German man received the honorable mention in this year's World Press Photo Contest for taking photos of Google street view images. He put his camera in front of his computer and photographed images of unfortunate events that were on Google Street View, like this one, and this one, and this one. He called his photos as a series of unfortunate events, if you want to page through this, find at link at cnet.com/loaded.

That's your news of the day. I will see you tomorrow, I'm Natali Morris for cnet, and you've just been loaded.

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