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attention shoppers I beacons are tracking you I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Apple stores are using new technology to track customers and send messages to their iPhones when they walk to different areas of the store so as an example if you're standing near a display of iPads you may get a popup on your iPhone to learn more about iPads it's all part of iOS 7's ibeacon technology but for it to send messages to an iphone the user needs to have bluetooth turned on and allow for location to be tracked with ibeacon and they also need to be using the businesses app in this case the apple store app this year several places are looking into how they can use ibeacons to communicate with their nearby customers Apple installed ibeacons at all of its stores across the u.s. but Major League Baseball showed off a demo of how it will use ibeacon technology next year to communicate with fans as they walk throughout the stadiums sending alerts to iphones with coupons for hot dogs or details about nearby points of interest for baseball you need to have the at the ballpark app to see the messages some department stores like Macy's are looking into ibeacons that communicate with the app shopkick so that's something to keep an eye on the music streaming service Spotify could be launching a free mobile version supported by advertisements this is according to a report from The Wall Street Journal as of now you can only listen to Spotify for free on the web through a computer but if you want to stream from a smartphone or tablet it costs ten dollars a month Spotify is unique and that you can pick the song as you want to play on demand but this free mobile version maybe more like Pandora with theme two radio stations where you really don't have a say in what plays next this new free mobile streaming app could be announced on wednesday december 11th during a press event that morning spotify would not be the first to add free ad-supported mobile listening are do another streaming music service added a free option in October another iphone game controller is on the way it's made by razor and it's called the kazoo yo this is a according to photos posted on twitter by Eveleigh and that account has been known to accurately spill the beans on upcoming tech products razor makes gaming laptops and accessories and it also makes controllers for consoles like the Xbox so far we don't have other details about the kazuyo but it looks like a similar design to logitech powershell controller as well as the new moga ace power iphone controller both of which sell for one hundred dollars that your tech news update bein get more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey