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it seems more Android users are converting to Apple I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Microsoft has finally released the launch date of the surface pro the full Windows 8 tablet is heading to stores in the US and canada in two weeks on februari 9th unlike the surface RT tablet this model can run any Windows program a few new surface accessories are launching alongside the pro including some limited edition edge design touch keyboard covers which cost 120 dollars each and a surface optimized version of the wedge Touch Mouse for seventy dollars the surface pro starts at nine hundred bucks it doesn't include the keyboard cover you see in advertisements but it does come with a pen stylus worldwide android phones are the top selling smartphones but in the US the iphone is still king a new research report out says Apple has 51 percent of the u.s. smartphone market and there are more people who are converting from android to iphone in the past year thirty-six percent of people who bought an iPhone were converting from Android but if you look at the other side only nineteen percent of android owners converted from apple and the report says verizon subscribers have the most people jumping the android ship for iphone verizon also shed light on its iphone sales in its recent financial statement almost two-thirds of the smart phones verizon sold during the holiday season more iphones but only half of those were the new iphone 5 so half of these iphone customers thought it was just as good to have a cheaper older model to save money or perhaps it could indicate that the iphone 5 was in short supply several tech companies are releasing their financial statements this week and Apple will share its sales numbers Wednesday afternoon and 80 announced it is spending 780 million dollars to buy up the US carrier I'll tell which operates in six states if approved by regulators it would give ATT more wireless spectrum to expand its 4G LTE network the launch of Facebook's graph search has folks more paranoid about how their profile appears on Facebook since now it's easier to uncover old posts or pages you like that don't show you in the best light so if you're someone who may have questionable material on Facebook that can make you look bad check out the web application called face wash you give the app access to look into your account and it scans all comments photos captions links status updates and group pages that you're associated with and I'll let you know if they have any bad words tied to them it even shows you the junk your friends posted on your wall to help you tidy up your online image that's your tech news update for more details on today's stories head to the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey