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it's time to share the love of high-priced cell phone bills I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it began with verizon and now 18t has joined the data sharing movement starting in August if you're a new customer with AT&T you'll now be choosing between mobile share plans they give unlimited voice and text but you pick how much data you need up to 10 devices can share from that bucket and generally speaking ATT and verizon's plan prices are pretty similar but depending on your needs one can be slightly cheaper if you have one smartphone and all you need is one gig of data a month 18t wins but as for the carrier that gives you more choices of data packages Verizon wins in a case with two people each with one smartphone most plans come out the same the higher you go in data and the more smartphones and tablets you add the monthly cost gets more practical you know how when you're out shopping and they tell you to just buy three more things and you get ten dollars off but you weren't going to spend that anyway but now you feel like you're going to be gypped if you don't it's like that and there's more mini tablet excitement we have word that Barnes & Noble is working on a new 7-inch nook tablet that will have some revolutionary screen technology something no other product has and we could be seen it in the fall paypal has agreed to acquire a startup called card io which has technology that lets you scan a credit card number just by taking a photo of the card they say it's secure Verizon's 4G LTE just keeps growing the carrier added 33 more LTE markets so now 337 areas have access to the faster 4g speed AT&T has it in 47 markets and sprint just turned on LTE the sweep of 15 markets Marissa Meyers first day is yahoo's new CEO the internet cried out for her to save the photo sharing site flickr dear marissa meyer calm has a simple message please help make flickr awesome again the founder of the site says the core flickr community feels that yahoo has neglected the once popular site as takings now turn their attention to apps like Instagram when you go out thursday night to watch the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises look up at the sky some major cities will be shining a cat signal similar to Batman's bat signal but this isn't something for Catwoman fans it's a stunt by the Internet Defense League the group hopes it will raise awareness to fight off future internet censorship legislation the founders have previously rallied websites to protest bills like SOPA and even if you're not one of the areas with a signal you can always donate 30 bucks to get your own personal cat signal flashlight to strike fear into the hearts of those who wish to limit internet freedoms that 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