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this can be an exciting year for gamers I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update get ready for a new Playstation to be unveiled this month Sony is having a press conference on februari 20th in New York and it released a teaser video featuring the iconic police station shapes the video is cryptic but the Wall Street Journal has sources saying that Sony will be revealing the ps4 and it will go on sale later this year the report adds that Sony will not just improve the hardware but also will add new ways to interact with the device with social gaming features interesting that song is going to debut this before the traditional III unveiling in June Verizon updated its prepaid plans for smartphones the competition is growing in the pay-as-you-go market seventy dollars a month gets users unlimited talk and text and two gigs of data that's 10 bucks less than it used to cost the catch is that it's only for 3g smart phones running android iOS or blackberry no love for windows phones but customers don't either buy a new phone this plan can be added to an old phone future Nokia phones could be made with a superlight indestructible material no it's not adamantium or vibranium it's graphene and no peer received the grant from the European Union to do research and development of this super material made of carbon on the atom scale it looks like chicken wire and it's said to be the hardest substance in the world three hundred times stronger than steel it's also incredibly thin just one atom thick and it's a better conductor than copper Apple may be working on a deal with HBO to put the HBO Go app on the Apple TV streaming box that report comes from Bloomberg and Amazon streaming service is getting more content it made a deal for prime instant video should be the exclusive subscription service that shows Downton Abbey episodes and it's also working on production of five original kids shows Netflix also has its own original shows it just premiered a TV series called house of cards starring Kevin Spacey and all 13 episodes are available at once with the recent release of office 365 many of you scoffed at the idea of one hundred dollars a year to subscribe to office so now's a good time to take a look at the free alternatives Google Docs lets users import and export Microsoft Office file types kingsoft office suite also opens Microsoft files and preserves the formatting Libre Office has rave reviews and of course there's Microsoft Office Web Apps the trim down cloud version of the desktop sweet you can get links to more details on these programs as well as today's other stories at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm free to carry