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Spotify is stealing ideas from Songza I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update the competition is heating up in the streaming music world this week Spotify is launching a service to its mobile apps called browse it features playlist put together by computer calculations and Spotify employees and these music playlists are labeled for different moods and situations like when you're going on a jog or trying to set a romantic mood sounds like Spotify is trying to do the same thing as Songza which also has its staff put together create a playlist for different situations and moods there will soon also be another music service that does the same thing the revamp of the subscription service mog code named daisy will also focus on curated playlists this new mog or daisy or whatever they're going to call it is run by beats electronics and the company hired music industry experts to come up with playlist including trent reznor from nine inch nails it's expected to launch in a few months so clearly the concept that got songs a popular is going to be featured in more services attention phablet fans the new Samsung Galaxy Note will be revealed on September forth during a technology trade show in Berlin bigger than a phone but too small to be a tablet the samsung note was the original phablet and this note 3 is expected to have a 5.7 inch 1080p high def screen with a stylus but the note hasn't been the only phablet on the block a photo was posted online that said to be the HTC One max sporting a 5.9 inch screen this phablet could also be released next month and Microsoft lower the price of its surface pro tablet by 100 bucks so the 64 gig model now starts at eight hundred dollars this discount comes three weeks after Microsoft dropped the surface RT tablet prices by thirty percent although the pro is more expensive it will likely be the surface model you want to go with since it has the full version of Windows 8 and it isn't limited to only using programs in the Windows app store the pro model also comes with a stylus but you got to pay extra for the keyboard cover and for office software Google is finally releasing a free app that helps you find your lost phone it's called Android device manager apolis had find my iphone four years now and android users have had to deal with using third-party apps and not all of them work well but google says it will release this new feature later this month and it lists phone owners ring their phone at a max volume or c word is on a map and if your film can't be recovered you can erase the data from afar that your tech news update you can read up on more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey