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Google gains new smarts and artificial intelligence and a Microsoft product goes by a new name I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update microsoft is changing the name of the SkyDrive online storage service it's being renamed to onedrive and it's all because a British Court ruled that Microsoft SkyDrive infringed on a trademark owned by the british sky broadcasting group so instead of battling it out over the rights to the name sky Microsoft just changed the name with the rebranding Microsoft is hoping onedrive is easier to remember as one place to save all your documents current SkyDrive users should have a smooth transition to the new one drive when it launches soon in other cloud storage news sprint wireless customers can get free online storage from Pogoplug customers get five gigs of cloud storage for free and for five dollars a month they can upgrade to unlimited storage sprint customers can get this free storage of music video photos and more by downloading the pogoplug app and the service offers automatic backups sprint also added 4G LTE coverage to 40 more US cities giving the faster 4g speed to a total of three hundred and forty markets the third place US carrier is staying competitive by launching it even faster wireless technology that's called spark and it will launch in a hundred cities over the next three years but you could find it now in some areas of Florida and Texas as well as Chicago LA in New York you've heard the stories about Google acquiring several major robotics companies but now Google is also buying up an artificial intelligence company called deepmind the text cite recode reports that google paid 400 million dollars to buy the london-based company deepmind works on commercial applications like simulations ecommerce and gaming as for the mobile site of google we have new numbers coming in regarding the global reach of the android operating system android increased its market share in 12 major regions around the world last year and that's according to the research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech android holds a sixty eight point six percent share of the mobile operating system market and Apple's iOS is in second place slipping to a forty-four percent share in the u.s. a thirty percent share in the UK and nineteen percent in China Windows Phone it's growing its presence in Europe increasing its slice of the mobile pie from five point six percent to a little over ten percent that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey