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did Samsung spill the beans about the next note I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update when Samsung announced details on the Galaxy s4 smartphone the company also unveiled some new accessories like the gamepad it's a video game control pad that attaches to the galaxy s4 and other smartphones it uses a bluetooth connection but here's what's interesting if you go to the Samsung website to find out more about this controller it says the gamepad will work with phones that have screens with 4 inches to as big as six point three inches but Samsung doesn't have a phone yet with a six point three inch screen the biggest phone now is the note tooth that's a five and a half inch screen so this could mean Samsung's planning the note 3 to be even larger does the role need a 6.3 inch phablet and more importantly well pockets be able to handle a phone that big there's a revolution brewing in the cable television industry verizon fios is hoping to convince media companies that it should only pay fees for a channel if their subscribers actually watch that channel for more than five minutes right now they pay a fee for every single subscriber this report comes from The Wall Street Journal but it's not just verizon that wants the system to change cablevision recently sued by a calm because it didn't think it was spared to be forced to pay for less popular via comm channels in an all-or-nothing bundle if these television providers get their way don't expect your TV bill to being cheaper but maybe it could stabilize cable costs or companies might be able to afford to offer you a few more perks google reader is shutting down in a few months and although it's bad news for fans of the RSS service it's good news for the app feedly since the announcement of google reader's demise feedly has added five hundred thousand new users mostly they're people trying to find a replacement for google reader Pinterest refreshed its design and added new ways to stumble on posts you can see the new design by going to your account icon and selecting switch to the new look Google seems to be working on a note-taking app called google keep a desktop version went live for a few moments the blog android police grabbed a few screenshots before it was yanked offline hashtags are now invading more social networks Yahoo's Flickr iOS app just added hashtags well flickered called them tags before but it's been renamed to hashtags since that term is gaining popularity and using the hashtag Flickr friday let you participate in that weekly photo challenge we might soon see hashtags on facebook as well at least that's the latest rumor that your tech news update we got more details on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey