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Google wants to keep your notes I'm Jeff Bakalar and this is your cnet update yesterday google introduced keep the new mobile and web-based note storing service that looks to aim at products like evernote boasting a simple easy-to-use interface keep will work with google drive so that all of your notes are synced across different platforms can stay on top of your world by quickly and easily organizing everything you want to remember no matter where you are finalized or list users can edit their notes from either their phone or the web and information will be saved everywhere you can also use voice dictation and photos to help enhance each note you take the blackberry store has topped 100,000 apps 30,000 of which were just added in the last seven weeks the milestone arrives just in time for the new z10 to land on store shelves and notable apps to the store include offerings from kindle CNN opentable skype and viber among others the store has been criticized in the past for a lack of software so this should help ease those worries still blackberry has a long uphill battle ahead of it though as Windows Phone 8 slowly begins to gain popularity all behind of course Android and iOS speaking of app stores Google Play might be getting a major overhaul pretty soon screenshot photos have surfaced on Android enthusiasts site droid-life of what's being called Google Play four-point-oh they show a much sleeker interface and simplistic theme throughout though it's not totally confirmed that this is in fact the new store we'll update you on the latest once we get word well we might as well continue today's mobile app theme show with news that pandora has now hit Windows Phone 8 the big news here is that the app will be free and stay ad free for a limited time new adopters will get all of the premium freebie features including unlimited streaming those perks will end in 2014 when it goes back to the four dollar a month and free but ed supported models and finally YouTube has just announced a major milestone of one billion monthly users this is pretty crazy put it like this if YouTube were a country it would be the third largest on the planet behind China and India that's pretty impressive so why the recent jump in traffic it's because of the amount of multi screen users those of us who consume YouTube not just on our computer screen but also our phones and tablets so why not join in on the fun and check out our youtube channel and that's at youtube.com slash cnet that's your tech news update for today you can find more details at cnet com / update follow me on twitter from our Studios here in New York I'm Jeff Bakalar