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kindle is king Google's got jerks and gamers are gabbing I'm Bridget Carey and this is a scene that update amazon is king of the android tablet there are more amazon kindle fires than any other android tablet according to research from comscore about fifty-five percent of android tablet users are on the kindle fire so amazon's unique take on android is more popular than google's version amazon also had a very strong quarter its latest earnings report was far better than analysts expected point in revenue of more than thirteen billion dollars that's up thirty four percent from last year but Amazon wouldn't say how many Kindles have been sold the SIS pible is on shaky ground but it's not dead yet the US House of Representatives approved the controversial internet surveillance bill called sista it passed despite the White House threatening to veto it and a rush of arguments from critics the bill is to help the government fight cyber attacks but many say it endangers Americans privacy and gives the government too much power the drama over this bill has to do with the privacy of your personal data if passed it means companies would share more of your online information with the government that is with the purpose of stopping cyber terrorists now the bill goes to the Senate in other news we're watching google has found yet another way for you to procrastinate at work search for the phrase zerg rush and you'll trigger a game you must save your search results from a swarm of google zoe's click to destroy the O's and when your last result is destroyed the game is over zerg rush is a reference to the game starcraft where you have to battle an onslaught of zerglings Apple CEO Tim Cook said there are no plans to make a hybrid of an ipad and laptop but one company did just that this keyboard is called the bridge slide your iPad in and now it looks like a macbook air it already has raised more than a hundred thousand dollars in funding on kickstarter and looking ahead lots of smartphone news coming in the next few days blackberry world the annual gathering of blackberry developers begins tuesday in orlando expect research in motion to show off the latest blackberry 10 operating system maybe we'll even see a phone there's also the international wireless trade show ctia in new orleans and seeing it will be pumping out coverage and first looks at all the freshest smartphones and today's appt to watch is handy for gamers skype is now on the PlayStation Vita and what's interesting is that the app runs in the background so if you're in the middle of the game you'll get an alert about an incoming call then pause the game if you want to pick up it's free to call other Skype accounts but just pay for some skype credits if you need to call landline or mobile phone and voila your portable gaming system is now also a phone that's your tech news update for today stay updated all the latest news at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey