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we're shooting cowboys in the living room and bringing game shows to our tablets I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the next version of the xbox might be able to play blu-ray discs 3d videos and use special glasses that would allow for augmented reality gaming these details all come from a 56-page document that seems to be the plan microsoft drafted for the xbox 720 to be out next year it also shows the next version of the Kinect which could track four people at once have better voice recognition and be split into two separate units on both sides of the television this PDF indicates it was authored in 2010 so some of these concepts surely have evolved by now or or outdated but other things in this document like smart glass have become a reality the mobile app Draw Something couldn't be turned into a television show CBS has bought the pilot of a TV show based on the pictionary like game this is according to the hollywood trade paper variety apparently it'll have teams of celebrities and everyday folks test their quick drawing skills in front of a studio audience and you could play along on the app at home so it's a more interactive take on pass game shows like pictionary and win lose or draw Mozilla the organization behind Firefox is working on a web browser for the iPad it's called junior and it will be different than the typical browser for example the toolbar is gone and there'll be large buttons on the left and right of the screen to navigate through pages no word on when it will be available Verizon's offer your new top tier high speed internet for fios service at 300 megabits per second for 210 dollars a month most people don't need that level of speed but verizon also is offering new prices for other speed bundles Microsoft's new product announcement Monday evening has everyone talking tablets so allow me to help you sort out all the speculation it's likely to be a tablet that will be tied in with the new windows 8 operating system coming up this fall but it's got to be different than the current windows tablets being produced so expect there also to be a tie-in with Xbox something that would bring us a step closer to the SmartGlass we saw at e3 and you'll likely see new features for streaming music to fill any gaps by the discontinued zune the 7-inch tablet market is a hot area ripe for competition so many thought this could be a product tied in with the barnes & noble nook but person towable said they have nothing to do with this so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a tie in with a phone since the next version of the windows phone operating system will be unveiled Wednesday what makes products alluring these days is having it tie with multiple devices using cloud services like Microsoft SkyDrive so yeah it could be something like that that's your tech news update for today for more on the stories in today's show visit cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey