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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to Google licious it's all the Google that we can pack into a show each week so let's get to it and the past week has been dominated by holiday sales and Cyber Monday but one of the coolest stories that surfaced was Amazon's big reveal on 60 minutes that they've been testing octocopter package delivery drones that might someday get it packaged to you within 30 minutes now before you skeptics attack the idea it's a concept amazon's testing that still requires Federal Aviation Administration approval and is something that could happen in the next let's say four to five years so what does this have to do with Google well Google has also been working on a local delivery service of their own called Google Shopping Express that's being tested in the Bay Area with same-day delivery from retailers like Target staples and Toys R Us now in the long run Google plans to use their own self-driving cars for delivery and flying drones have also been discussed as a means of delivery as well now all these ideas are being fleshed out of their Google X lab which is their secret facility that works on future technologies or big ideas like Google glass and their driverless car that are the offspring of the Google X project so put all these things together and it looks like Amazon and Google will be directly competing with each other in the retail drone delivery wars and also a Jeff Bezos that laughs I don't like that okay I've heard it enough all right Amazon's also getting a little boost in the press for their Kindle Fire HDX 7-inch tablet after display mate a company that specializes in display testing and calibration gave top marks to the Kindle HDX 7 calling it's display almost magical with the Nexus 7 taking second and the retina iPad Mini taking a distant third now the Kindle Fire HDX 7 was applauded for being the first tablet to use quantum dots technology it produces highly saturated primary colors for LCDs similar to those produced by a LED displays that increase the color gamut to 100% and improves power efficiency at the same time now this playmate says the tech will revolutionize LCDs for the next five plus years and Amazon takes a page from its competitors going directly after Apple with its latest ad pitting the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 against the iPad air and even mocks Johnny I've take a look this new iPad air is astonishingly light the new Kindle Fire is actually 20% lighter yes but the iPad is only $4.99 the Kindle is only 379 I see oh snap now I don't know if you guys been paying attention lately but Amazon is positioning itself as the next great tech company with its hardware offerings content ecosystem and its biggest differentiator price also talking about prices cyber monday has always been the biggest online shopping day but it didn't come without its casualties Motorola was offering 150 bucks off the Moto X including developer editions and unlocked models the problem their site was down for pretty much the entire day hashtag now in some quick software update news KitKat and since 5.5 is now being rolled out to developers and unlocked versions of the HTC One in the US and AT&T is officially bringing the Android 4.3 update for the Galaxy s4 it's big at around 727 Meg's so you'll need to be on Wi-Fi for that and they've also released a galaxy gear update to allow complete compatibility with the s4 and let's stick with Samsung right now there's always rumors swirling around the Korean giant leaked pictures surfacing from France point to a metal chassis which is not normal for Samsung and could either be for the Galaxy s5 a rumored Galaxy F series but also shows Samsung possibly moving the headphone jack to the bottom now rumors have also persisted that will see the s4 successor in February or March of 2014 and it's also rumored to be offered in possibly two versions one boasting a flexible display with the metal casing and the other being a more traditional version with a plastic body and non flexible screen and ET news is reporting that the next-gen Samsung Galaxy gear to watch will also be launched at the same time with the s5 in early 2014 which makes sense and I actually seen real concepts of the next-gen watch but if I told you you would probably never see me again and some of you might like that all right now how about some real factual Samsung news Sammy is rolling out new Merlot red rose gold white and rose gold black colors for the Galaxy Note 3 line so feast your eyes on them they really don't make phone colors like they used to and now I know what rose gold looks like alright that's gonna do it for this week's show email us at Google issues at cnn.com or you guys can tweet me at Brian Tong and I'll respond to you when I can thanks so much for watching i'm brian tong and we'll see you next time for some more of that google issues