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t-mobile is spicing things up I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update if you're someone who can't wait to buy that new phone t-mobile is hoping to lure you in with a new upgrade program called jump for ten dollars a month customers can upgrade a phone twice a year by paying the same amount for a new phone that a new customer would pay no need to wait for two years to get that big discounted upgrade price which is the case for other carriers the program also acts as insurance to protect against damage or theft a federal judge has found Apple guilty of conspiring with book publishers to raise the retail prices of electronic books the US Department of Justice accused Apple of colluding with five publishers to artificially raise the price of e-books back when the iPad was about to launch the case claimed that all publishers were pricing their best sellers in Apple's bookstore at 13 or 15 dollars but Amazon was selling ebooks for ten dollars so publishers were withholding their books from Amazon until the prices were raised an apple denies that it was colluding to fix the prices and it will appeal the verdict only Apple went to trial over this because all the other publishers settled out of court the next step is to have another trial to determine the damages that Apple will have to pay this ruling could not only change the way books are sold online but it also could change the future deals that are made for other digital media like music and television programming Google just launched a new Google Maps app for Android users if you look up the location of a restaurant you'll see reviews look up a store you'll see coupons a new explore menu lets you discover a new place to visit based on different categories it's a copy of what Foursquare does if there's a traffic problem ahead you'll be alerted to take a new route mid travel but there are some features being removed latitude and check-ins are going away instead if you want to see your friends and family pop up on a map they'll have to use their Google+ accounts to share location to save a map offline you'll have to now type in the phrase ok maps into the search box and if you want to create your own custom map well sorry you'll have to wait for that to be added in a future update all these changes are also coming soon for iOS X Fox gamers could be paying more for games when Microsoft decides to ditch the point system for real world money in Xbox Live some people in the UK are beta testing the switchover and they are noticing games are costume slightly more for example games that were listed for 1200 points came out to cost about 10 pounds in the UK and now those games are listed for 12 pounds it's just a beta test so things can change but maybe you'll want to spend up those points now before everything is converted to get the most bang for your buck that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey