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Google wants to be your wireless carrier I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update in a year or two you may purchase a wireless data and calling plan from google several reports indicate Google's taking steps to launch its own cellular phone service and it would ride on the existing networks of Sprint and t-mobile the wall street journal and the tech blog the information are among the outlets reporting the plan Google would pay sprint and t-mobile to use those networks and that's how it works for smaller carriers like tracfone and freedompop so why would Google want to do this well it's complicated you see Google needs to stay friendly with wireless carriers that sell Android phones but it does want more control the whole buying experience so if Google isn't controlled both the foam and the wireless plan that simplicity could lower the cost of a plan and it means Google could experiment with new ways of showing you advertising through its network but this is not happening anytime soon and maybe it'll be a limited launch when it does become available google has been exploring all sorts of new wireless projects lately including delivering internet to more countries using drones balloons and most recently low-orbit satellites with an investment of 1 billion dollars to SpaceX meanwhile while we have Google working on new Internet services and Microsoft creating hologram viewing headsets the folks at Amazon are dealing with dirty diapers one of Amazon's recent projects is causing a stink with consumers about seven weeks ago it began selling its own line of discounted baby diapers as a perk to Prime subscribing parents but it has stopped selling the diapers to make some design improvements and there's other Amazon news leaking today yeah I can't help myself the retail giant has launched a new program to create digital textbooks and educators and authors can use the Kindle textbook creator tool to turn PDFs into interactive digital textbooks that can be accessed on multiple devices not just Kindles but also iPads PCs and Android tablets and in Amazon competitor news overstock.com is also getting in the video streaming game going up against amazon I'm instant video in a few months it's going to launch a video streaming service for overstocks Club Oh loyalty program offering 30,000 shows and movies overstocks loyalty program costs twenty dollars a year but unlike amazon / stock is going to charge another fee for video the price hasn't been determined and in social media news you may start seeing older tweets pop up on your mobile twitter feed twitter has a new feature that will show you some of the tweets you missed since the last time you logged on the app even though the point of twitter is to see things in real time twitter just can't resist the urge to act more like facebook that's your tech news update there's more details in cnet com for more studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey