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how would you like to listen to the Super Bowl shuffle with headphones that cost more than a car I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene at update the war between AT&T and t-mobile is getting more heated than usual this week as the two carriers continue to fight for customers by essentially bribing them with money AT&T is offering a 100-dollar credit for every new line opened two new and existing customers ATT also is paying 450 dollars for t-mobile customers that switch to 18 t now t-mobile started using cash to luring customers a few weeks ago when it began paint the early termination fees for anyone that cancelled their contracts to switch to t-mobile but if money is no object to you then perhaps you would be interested in these limited-edition beats by dre headphones designed for the football players heading to the super bowl this sunday the price tag for these models adorned in gold and diamonds 25 thousand dollars apiece I don't know how the sound quality can be any better for 25 grand but perhaps you can find out for yourself when someone from the losing team eventually sells their swag on ebay in other music news that may be actually useful to you the streaming service are do and the song recognition apps Shazam have expanded their partnership to 35 countries so when you use shazam to get the name of the song that is playing it will link you to a full-length version of the song on rdio for free but it's only free for a two-week mobile trial after that it will cost ten dollars a month for unlimited mobile access on your phone or tablet however listening to our do on the web from a desktop remains free and last.fm an internet radio website that recommends music has partnered with the streaming service Spotify now last.fm will have a Spotify play bar on the bottom of the site to access any song and spa defies catalog I should note that last.fm is owned by CBS interactive which is also the parent company of cnet and in the same fashion that you would pay a monthly fee to Spotify Rdio to listen to unlimited music you can pay for access to Limited ebooks scribd is one such service it likes to think of itself as the netflix for books and it launched an app on the kindle fire tablet for nine dollars a month you can access more than a hundred thousand ebooks now that sounds like a lot of titles but it's just a tiny fraction of the books that amazon offers the scribd apps for iOS and Android also got a refresh with more features that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at cnet com / update and be sure to follow along on Twitter for the latest from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey