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it's time for law order and laser beams I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the Apple and Samsung us trial is almost out of clothes the two tech giants spent three weeks battling over patents and accusations of copying technology the jury is expected to begin deliberations Tuesday Apple is asking for 2.5 billion dollars in damages from Samsung it claimed Samson copied the look and feel of the iphone and ipad and samsung was around 519 million dollars from Apple for infringing on its patents there will be rough days ahead for onlive the company that wanted to change the way we buy and play video games if you haven't heard of it onlive is a relatively new cloud-based gaming service it hosts console games on its servers and instead of you downloading the whole game or buying the disk it streams it over the internet for you to play on your TV tablet or PC it offers this ten dollar a month all you can play subscription but on Friday onlive sold its assets to a newly formed company bought by an investor it'll still be called on live in the restructuring it laid off employees but said it would hire money back now subscribers shouldn't see any problems or interruptions in the service during this restructuring a few tech deals are making headlines for starters college students who buy a new pc from Dell HP best buy or at the microsoft store can get a free Xbox 360 console the computer has to cost at least seven hundred dollars and it has to be bought before September 8th also you have to prove your student with a valid edu email or ID gadget trade insight gazelle is offering a tempting deal for anyone planning on selling a used iphone and trading up to the new iphone if you get a price quote a now for a used iphone you don't have to mail it in until october first now everyone's saying the next iPhone will be out in September so ideally you'll be able to hold on to your phone until the new one comes out the value of used iphones is higher now than it will be when a new one launches also iphone users will need that shared data plan if they want to use the facetime video chat service over ATT cellular network otherwise you gotta stick with Wi-Fi to make a facetime call and no word verizon will do something similar and in what's up with mars news the Curiosity rover just shot a laser beam at a rock and vaporize the outer part of the rock yep the rover has a laser gun on it shooting pulses at the rock created electrically-charged plasma and sensors detected more than 6,000 wavelengths of light the laser was designed for chemistry test but no telling how powerful it is compared to your typical Martian ray gun that's your tech news update and for more details about today's stories you get head on over to the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey