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it's time for a different take on the wireless contract I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update t-mobile is killing the traditional two-year wireless contract the carrier jumped the gun on its scheduled tuesday announcement and changed its website over the weekend with new pricing before when you got a discount on a new phone you really were paying for that phone over time through the data plan t-mobile is ditching that system but here's the kicker you can either pay for a phone at full price up front or pay off a phone over the course of time with monthly fees a 2gig data plan with unlimited talk and text will cost you sixty dollars a month but if you want to get the samsung galaxy s3 you could pay a hundred and ten dollars up front and pay an extra twenty dollars a month for two years until you pay off the phone and if you get an older or less popular phone you might not have to pay anything upfront and just pay a lower monthly fee to pay it off expect to get more details on the new pricing structure in the days to come Barnes and Noble is working to bring in app payments to nook tablets in-app purchases are common in games or players might buy items to improve their chances of winning it's also worth noting that Barnes & Noble is running a special deal until March 30th if you buy a nuke HD Plus tablet you get a free nook simple touch e ink reader which normally goes for eighty dollars linkedIn has improved its search engine the system will tailor a search result to your interest and network so if you type in product manager you might get a different result from somewhere else it'll get smarter with more searches and it'll let you get alerts for saved searches lawmakers in West Virginia are seeking to ban drivers from using google glass it would be an amendment to a current law that prohibits texting while driving but to also prohibit wearing a wearable computer with a head-mounted display while behind the wheel because that's also distracted driving if you've been waiting for the HTC One smartphone and it's all aluminum body it's facing a launch delay because of camera parts the HTC One is expected to arrive in the US by the end of April there's some good android app news today snip snap is a coupon app that lets you scan your printed clipped coupons and save them into your phone or you can find coupons that are scanned by other users it's been available for free and iTunes but now it's on Android and the Evernote app for Android is updated with features that are found in the iOS version such as new home screen tools and the page camera it takes a photo of your written notes and turns them into digital notes and it works well with the specially designed Evernote moleskine notebook that's your tech news update you can find more details at the blog sina com / update and you can follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey