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will the dish run away with the sprint I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet updated the satellite television provider dish made a bid to merge with sprint for 25 and a half billion dollars sprint was already talking about merging with a Japanese wireless provider called softbank but this dish deal offers sprint more money so why would sprint consider and deal with DISH well Sprint is in third place behind 18 T and Verizon so it needs to do something to grow and standout dish has 14 million subscribers those could be new customers in some sort of bundle deal and dish owns airwaves that sprint could use to boost its network that means sprint would have more capacity to handle more traffic and have a stronger connection essentially a wider highway for data to travel on and that highway would be wider than its rivals 18 t and verizon dish has had its eyes on wireless for some time now before this dish try to buy metropcs but that didn't work and earlier in the year I made a bid for the clearwire network but sprint owns most of that company there were also reports that maybe dish was talking to t-mobile but it's more than just wireless remember dish bought blockbuster in 2011 it's time for more SmartWatch rumors the wall street journal reports that Microsoft is tinkering with making its own SmartWatch this wouldn't be Microsoft's first dance with smartwatches in 2004 @ launched software called spot and it partnered with watchmakers like fossil and swatch this is one such watch with spot these watches displayed headlines for news sports and weather but they were discontinued in 2008 continuing with Microsoft news for those of you with windows 8 the Bing apps have been updated users can sort manage and add different news categories and feeds into the news app the Maps app has a new search tool to track down local businesses or even see the location of people in your contacts Electronic Arts is shutting down three games it has on Facebook this sends social simcity social and pet society the games will no longer be available after June fourteenth and EA says it's retire these games because activity has fallen off since they first launched on Facebook if you're in the market for a new TV or just wanted to dream about a new TV check out this 55 inch plasma in the Panasonic st60 series it's the first television to get a 5 star rating from cnet what makes it the most recommended TV ever well for the mid-level price range it has outstanding quality and plenty of Smart TV content of course nothing's perfect and like everything there are a few downsides but you can check out the full review online that's your tech news update we got more details on these stories at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey