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what's happened in brian Tong here and welcome to the apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple after all the holiday shopping and Cyber Monday so let's get to it and it's another acquisition for Apple this week after the Wall Street Journal reports Apple paid more than 200 million dollars for Topsy a social analytics company that holds a number of search related patents that could be implemented directly into apple's own products like the itunes store or App Store now Topsy is able to mine data with its search tools from services like Twitter so it could also be plugged in with Apple apps to offer suggestions that are more relevant to what's trending as well like WCW which stands for women's crush Wednesday and i'm sad i actually had to look that up alright rumors keep on rolling with the twelve point nine inch ipad after chinese website pad news reports Apple is testing five different versions of the big screen iPad they report that Apple may launch a version with a 2k resolution in the first half of 2014 which is pretty much the current resolution of the current full-size iPad then pad new says they will debut a 4k Ultra HD resolution model a couple months later even if Apple has never really done anything like that before with any of its product lines so take that story however you want now the iphone 5c may not be its top-selling phone and reports say the 5s is selling two to three times more but according to research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech try saying that five times really fast almost half of iphone 5c buyers switch from competitor brands particularly samsung and LG compared to eighty percent of 5s owners who upgraded from a previous iphone model and in more iphone news tech writer michael andrews shared photos of what he claims is the prototype version of the iphone 5c styled case for the iphone 5s now this design has openings on the top and bottom unlike the fully covered 5c case and the arrangement of the dots is different as well there's no confirmation if Apple is planning to actually release this Crocs looking case for the 5s n unfortunately it hasn't been confirmed if they're jibbitz shoe charms are compatible with it because uh honestly I collect those alright shifting gears let's check out our app of the week this week the app to get has to be quiz up this is really a fun trivia game with over 250 different topics it has a real slick interface and let's be honest that background music totally chills me out now you can play against your friends and really frustrate them yeah you suck boy oh damn it and the best part of this app it's free and forget about games like draw something that nobody plays anymore quiz up is where it's at and also I beat Shawna Mendiola on math easy like kindergarten math that's right although she beat me at Tech so yeah go get the app and check out quiz up and if you challenge me I will totally kick your butt all right to the quick bites Honda is integrating the iphone with our 2014 honda civic touchscreen that mirrors apps from your smartphone to the display and in-car audio system it's not a full-blown implementation of iOS in the car but it's one of the first steps now the system will also be arriving with the new 2015 Honda Fit next spring and support for some Android features will come next year we've also talked about ibeacons and how they can be used in retail stores well a new startup called exact editions is now allowing newsstand publication samples to appear on I devices when they are near specific places now the ibeacon talks to the iDevice when it's nearby and a magazine publication appears in your newsstand app for you to read but then goes away once you leave X proximity now it's a cool idea and Major League Baseball is also planning to use ibeacons to enhance the experience at ballparks as well and if you're tired of the same old iPad cases check out this one from belkin with their new lego ipad mini case for 59 bucks now the back side comes with the Lego grid and all its studs and allows you to get creative or honestly have your kids never give you back your iPad again because the playing games on it and then they're building Lego castles in yeah actually this is not a good idea alright guys I'm kidding this really cool they also make them for the iphone 5 and 5s but you really may never see your iPad Mini ever again alright that's going to do for this we show send me your life questions to the Apple by to cnet com or tweet me a brian Tong and offer you the best advice possible i'm brian Tong thanks for watching we'll see you guys all next time for another bite of the Apple