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it's time to place your bets for March phone madness I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update AT&T has confirmed that the blackberry z10 touchscreen smartphone is going on sale March 22nd for two hundred dollars with the usual two-year contract pre-orders begin Tuesday the z10 will also be sold by verizon and t-mobile but neither carrier has yet to say if they will also sell it on march twenty second and that's a tough blow for blackberry because it's always better to have one unified launch day across carriers to get more buzz in the public and speaking of smart phone buzz the samsung galaxy s4 will be unveiled on Thursday but there are photos posted on a samsung form of what is said to be the new s4 if these leaked photos are accurate then the s4 is going to look a lot like the Galaxy Note 2 but this could be a dummy case phone companies use fake casing used to disguise the look of their unreleased devices some analysts suggest that the s4 would actually have more of a square look but come back to cnet to see the real thing unveiled live on thursday at 4pm pacific 7 p.m. eastern last update I reported the SimCity game launched with server problems and it was unplayable for days but to make peace with players Electronic Arts is giving a free game to simcity owners the problem stemmed from EA requiring an internet connection to play some city because it wants to prevent software piracy but EA servers couldn't handle the number of people trying to log on a play and users were getting disconnected it'll be a while before consumers can buy Google glass headpieces but there's already one bar in Seattle that has banned google glass the five point bar posted this image to its Facebook page of course it's kind of a joke but the owner of the bar says that there was some seriousness to it for privacy's sake the South by Southwest Interactive Festival is a yearly gathering of people to network and talk tech and some developers use the gathering to launch their apps for example Foursquare was an app that launched at South by and it became a success story others like highlight still haven't gained much ground but here are a few being pitched at this year's festival Prague's to me let you discover people nearby and send them files with a few taps and you can mass message a group of people near you assuming they all have the app it's for iOS and Android yapim lets you share your feelings and experiences with the brand and brands would reward you with gift cards it's only available right now for Apple devices and takes is an iOS camera app that captures short video clips while you take photos and it turns them into a montage of clips set to music that's your tech news update and you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey