Gadgetory

it's time to break off a piece of that blackberry and friend some stranger's on Facebook I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene at update blackberry maker researcher motion has long been struggling to thrive and turn the company around with thousands of layoffs ongoing it could be time for the company to try something drastic and one report says researcher motion is considering to split itself into two companies dividing the software and messaging network from the hardware and phone side and it will sell the hardware division to some larger tech company this report ran in the British newspaper The Sunday Times without any sources named research emotion didn't comment on the specifics it just said that it is examining a wide range of strategies and we're still waiting to see if that new blackberry 10 operating system can shake things up it's got a whole new interface and a touchscreen keyboard that can predict the next words you're likely to type so you can type faster that way it'll come out later this year but there's no official date yet and when we'll see those new blackberries Sony is launching a new google TV set-top box next month for two hundred dollars the only problem is that it's google TV sony might have come out with new hardware but the google TV software isn't dire need of an update if you're looking to add some zing to your home theater setup google TV still disappoints as you can read in our full review get ready for a ton of Google News to drop this week at the Google i/o Developers Conference the event kicks off Wednesday but we're already seeing leaked specs and images about the Nexus tablet google plans to show off documents posted on gizmodo show of being a 7 inch asus tablet with android 4.1 jelly bean and NFC support for things like Google Wallet it'll start at two hundred bucks and the samsung galaxy s3 which hit us stores last week could be the hottest phone this year Samsung is projecting that 10 million galaxy s3's will be sold by the end of July but it's likely they mean 10 million phone shipped Facebook has taken down a controversial feature it was testing on mobile double it you locate other Facebook users geographically near you it was called fine friends nearby and was hidden deep in app the idea is that if you met someone at a venue or an event and you wanted to add them as a friend on Facebook instead of hunting through names you could just narrow it down to the strangers near you and quickly make a friend request facebook says this wasn't a formal release it was just a test but another app has already been doing the same thing for a year now it's called friend them the creators of friend them accused Facebook of stealing the idea and threatened to sue surely after Facebook removed the future that's your tech news update for today for more on the stories in today's show visit cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey