Gadgetory

pardon the disruption we got some new tech challenges ahead I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Oh amazon just when i think your kingdom couldn't get any larger you seem to always find a new way to make more money well keeping with the back-to-school season and was on now lets students rent textbooks not just digital books for kindle i'm talking real made of trees textbooks now ebays half.com already was offering that service and there's the site book Rancher calm that's been around since 2006 but hey amazon's disrupting the game and amazon is also taking aim at Zynga with a new game studio dedicated to making social games it already has its first game playable through Facebook it's called living classics and you interact with animated illustrations from classic books like The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland Amazon's plan on building this department to make more free-to-play games in other news we're watching you'll notice the next iOS version will not include a default YouTube app on the home screen Apple is kicking google's youtube app off the iphone and ipad and google is making its own separate app that you'll be able to download apple's continuing to distance and self from google as it's coming out with its own map and directions app in the iOS 6 those that by the new windows phone 8 devices will be able to make in-app purchases and sorry for those of you with Windows Phone 7.8 you won't be getting the feature the end is near for 2g 18 he announced it will finally kill off that slow 2g in 2017 it will use that spectrum to strengthen 3g and 4g networks and don't forget that ATT will begin to offer its new share data plans on august twenty-third but you can still also pick from its old data plan choices united states representative dennis kucinich has proposed a new bill to put radiation warning labels on cellphones and create a national research program to study the radiation levels in our mobile devices it's called the cellphone right to know act and it would require the Environmental Protection Agency to chime in on the standard amount of radiofrequency we should be absorbing the wireless industry is fighting a similar law now in San Francisco you'll hear more about this on Thursday a federal appeals court is set to hear arguments on the case that's your tech news update for more on the stories mentioned in today's show you can head on over to cnet com / update where you can also find links to subscribe to our newsletter or just keep yourself updated by following me on twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey