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looks like the priceline negotiator has been busy I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNN update Priceline announced it will buy travel website kayak for about 1.8 billion dollars the deal is expected to close by March kayak will be operating independently from priceline and current management will remain to run the website kayak lets users compare pricing for hotels flights and other travel services and it processes more than 100 million user queries each month the site just went public in July several people have reported a defect in Microsoft Surface touch cover where it rips at the seam near the tablet connection point a couple of users on Microsoft Surface forum reported the problem and said Microsoft gave him a replacement cover with no hassle the flaw could be limited cnet users have written comments saying they had no problems yet with their covers but then again it's only been out for two weeks in other news Verizon just announced it plans to roll out 4G LTE to all its coverage areas in the US by the middle next year that's six months earlier than previously scheduled gamefly the netflix for video games has officially launched its pc game service for all subscribers customers now have access to unlimited pc play for hundreds of downloadable windows games including top titles like fallout and Assassin's Creed even if you don't subscribe to gamefly right now you can download Bioshock for free of course they hope that lures you into the service Evernote has updated its app for iphone and ipad owners there's a new layout that gives one top access to find the note you need AT&T has been criticized for limiting use of apple's facetime video chat to give you some background when iOS 6 came out it let users facetime over a cellular connection instead of just Wi-Fi but 18-team blocked it for everyone except customers that use the new shared data plan ATT was worried that if everyone was video chatting freely it would put a strain on the network but now AT&T announced that over the next couple of months it will open up cellular FaceTime to customers with a tiered data plan using 4g LTE so you're out of luck if you were grandfathered in with an unlimited data plan which is what many early iPhone users have and tiered data plan customers with the older iphone 4 or iphone 4s also still can't facetime freely that's your tech news update for today you can find links to all of today's stories on the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey