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Nokia needs more color startups head to space and Google shifts gears with storage I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene at update google has unveiled he will drive a service for storing your files online and sharing them between various computers and devices every Google user gets five gigs of storage for free and it's integrated with Google Docs so you can save any file or document into the cloud and it will be alongside your google doc files if you need to expand that storage 25 gigs costs about 250 a month and 100 gigs costs five bucks a month google is giving more free storage than other services like Dropbox which caps that free at two gigs and Google makes it cheaper than the other guys to just quickly add more storage the Lumia 900 is Nokia's last big chance for success in the US and it's having a hard time keeping their color models in stock if you want this 4G Windows Phone out ya might have to settle for black the Scion and white are out of stock at AT&T at Amazon why is unavailable and Scion is backordered Best Buy also has white unavailable so is this a sign that there is a hot demand for this phone or maybe Nokia just didn't produce enough units when it launched or a combo of the two if this is a sign of popularity the nokia has got a fighting chance to thrive in this apple and android dominated market also don't forget there was a software problem with the very first Nokia units Nokia gave a hundred dollar credit to customers making the phone free so maybe free has something to do with hot demand in other news we're watching we know Earth's natural resources are limited but one startup is planning to go to space to gather more minerals the company called Planetary Resources is on a mission to mine asteroids experts say this isn't the stuff of science fiction anymore the company's advisors include James Cameron and Google's CEOs both past and present netflix reported it added 1.7 million new streaming subscribers in the first three months of the year and that the business is in good shape it's lost 25 million dollars was smaller than expected and the CEO believes they'll be up and back to profitability soon Wall Street however isn't digging it investors are nervous that the decline in growth is a sign netflix is heading downhill due to increased competition and what we all complain about lack of streaming and a release preview of Windows 8 is coming out the first week in June this follows the beta version that we saw late februari it's expected that the final version will launch in October and it's time to get those Legos out of the closet today's appt to watch is the lego superhero movie maker for Apple devices you can create stop motion animations with your Lego figurines it's easy for kids to pick up and learn and addictive for adults too it's even got this transparent overlay of the previous frame which helps you know how much to move the figures each time and it's free that's your tech news update for today stay updated on all the latest news at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey