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it's not easy to move to simcity I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it's been about a month since blackberry showed off the brand new z10 smartphone you know the one that's going to save the company but we still don't know when it will go on sale in the US that lack of information could be slowing the momentum blackberry built up after unveiling it in January right now bloomberg is reporting that AT&T could be selling the z10 on march 22nd and we're all expecting the keyboard model the q10 to come out about a month after that the z10 has been on sale already in Europe and Canada and early sales seem to show it's off to a good start but blackberry could have problems competing with its App Store as users won't find some popular apps like Instagram Pandora YouTube and Netflix disaster has struck the new SimCity since it launched on Tuesday players of the game have been hit with error messages and random disconnections and it's all because the game requires you to be logged online to play and Electronic Arts servers can't handle the high load of players you could always play simcity offline before but EA is now requiring an internet connection to protect against software piracy EA has temporary disabled some of these online multiplayer features until it can get more servers to handle the traffic fans have waited 10 years for a new SimCity game and this is turning out to be a very messy launch for those of you with a nuke keep your eye out for free books and apps every Friday nuke free fridays I've always featured a free ebook but now those with the note tablet can also grab a free app the real estate app trulia is a tool for searching for available properties and it added a new way to hunt for your next home if you click like on a property the app will offer suggestions with photos of other places that look similar it's like blending the concept of Pandora but with homes in a previous update I've reported that tweetdeck apps are being discontinued and will soon stop working that means it's time to teach yourself a few new apps to manage your twitter feed for iOS users tweetbot is very popular but it's three dollars a free app is HootSuite we has a similar experience of using columns to browse like you can do on tweetdeck you can sign into multiple accounts schedule posts track stats and you can also sign into other networks like facebook and foursquare android users you should check out plume it's free and also let you make custom columns to follow and tweet line which is also free has clean navigation and perks like autocomplete for user names and a list of trending topics that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey