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webos is alive I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Mobile World Congress the mother of all mobile trade shows kicked off in Barcelona and we already have tons of news to talk about Samsung did not bring out the galaxy s4 to the show but it was announced that the s4 will be unveiled on March 14th at a New York City event this one is the s3 and as one of the most anticipated smartphones of the year it's no surprise that the s4 will get its own spotlight at a separate event but you can expect the s4 will have a visa mobile payment system called pay wave samsung and visa announced a partnership where future samsung devices will work with visas mobile payment system and the s4 will be the flagship product for that program many groups have been spending years trying to grow mobile payments it's the idea that you can wave your phone at a register to pay but it just hasn't taken off yet in the u.s. samsung phones are very popular but it might not really take off until Apple includes that technology in the iphone mobile payments will be a big theme at this year's show as MasterCard also unveiled a digital payment system called master pass which works for purchases and stores as well as online and on a phone samsung did show off the Galaxy Note 8 it's an 8-inch tablet that will compete with the ipad mini but of course price will determine how competitive it will be and samsung didn't announce the price and as an SD card slot built in S Pen Stylus it will be loaded with Android jelly bean and will be Wi-Fi only in the US expected to come out sometime before July Samsung is also launching a rival to the apple TV streaming box it's called the homesync it's an android-powered media box that streams movies TV shows and games to your TV and it also streams movies from a galaxy smartphone no word on price but that'll be out in April and surprising news web OS is still alive LG will be using HP's defunct mobile operating system on future televisions meanwhile HP is back in the tablet game this time with an Android model called the slate 7 it will be out in April for 100 seventy dollars also at Mobile World Congress we got to look at a voice control personal assistant app called the indigo it's like Apple Siri but this works on Android Windows Phone 8 and your web browser it'll eventually also come to iOS it's similar to how Siri works where you ask questions and get answers based on web search results and it can create appointments open apps dictate emails or post statuses to social networks and one indigo account will sync between your devices even if you have a Windows Phone and an Android tablet that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey