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Google wants to be your new shopping buddy I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update google has found a new way to use its search engine to stall key while shopping let's say you search on Google for a product like a certain toy or maybe a pair of shoes later in the day if you walk by a store that sells the item that you were searching for you'll get a popup on your phone it's part of google now in the Google Search app for Android the alert on Google now shows the product and price at nearby stores as a friendly reminder that Google is watching every move you make the next step would be for Google to tie this ability into the Google Wallet for payments and it may do that soon with Google glass techCrunch reports Google's tinkering with a way to send money to other people with the voice command send money and that's not all from google the Google Maps app now includes information on the car service uber on both iOS and Android you can choose uber as a travel option and if you live in the city with uber car service and if you have the app installed it'll let you see the estimated travel time to your destination if you order an uber car to pick you up google has an interest in seeing uber succeed it invested 258 million dollars in ubers latest funding round but if you don't care about car service the map update has other perks google shows what lane to stay in with driving directions you can save maps offline which is good for vacations abroad and there are more details on public transit times so you know when the last train leaves there's a few tech stories to keep an eye on in the coming days starting next week on May fifteenth the four major wireless carriers in the US will support a text to 911 program it lets you send text messages to 911 to get help and chat with an operator instead of calling this of course is helpful when you're in a situation where you're afraid to speak but it may not work everywhere only some emergency call centers are equipped to answer texts it's up to the local states and counties to implement to receive and dispatch your text messages the Federal Communications Commission has a list of the counties that can handle text to 911 but if your area does not you would get a bounce-back text to know it didn't go through and later this month will see a smaller version of the surface tablet on May twentieth Microsoft is happening what it calls a small gathering which is likely a tease that it will unveil the rumored mini surface which could have a 7 or 8 inch screen and a stylus pen that's your tech news update you can head to cnet.com for more details and follow me on twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey