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Im on the fence. there is a lot of development with tablets. some of the competition has to do with the operating system. android is running on the motorola xoom, apple, microsoft. rim has the play book. >> cant you make it easy, buy this one? >> there are so many out there. the difficulty is trying to distinguish themselves. so many have two cameras, the ability to do web surfing, you can watch video and e-mail. this is the tech gold rush. everyone company is rushing out trying to capture this ...

Night. the show goes on. by the way, i was in the gratto on business. always working, shep. >> shepard: always. proud of you, trace. >> thank you. >> shepard: news bytes now l.g. unveiling what it calls the worlds first 3-d smart phone. look at this thing. a spokesman says a pair of cameras on the back, two on the back will allow users to take 3 d photographs and video. you wont need those attractive 3 d glasses apparently. the company has not provided a release date or a price. spriltd "sports ...

Million to hourly workers. there are 45,000 of these workers represented by the uaw union. they will get at least $4,000 each. thats a record level. they will get that money march 25th. also seems news leaking out of apple that they may be fed up with the rivals, cheaper rivals to their iphone. they are potentially coming out with a new phone which will be around 200 bucks, compared to the iphone 4, which is 600 bucks. this is to go up against the threat of google which is putting android in a w...

Apple is trying to remain more domestic pettive. the android is taking hold of the market. the iphone only makes up about 3% of the broader market, so this is about competition, and with a cheaper, lighter iphone, a lot of people will go for that. >> dont go away or too far because we are going to put you through the valentines day test to test your knowledge about what you know today. we want to have our viewers see how you do. play along in the next hour. we will give alison the new cnn challe...

Does drive the news cycle, twitter is the place to go. >> right. i heard young protesters got together in negotiations and said facebook says -- its not facebook, its them. i not sure theyre able to do it without those. the people in egypt knew there was tor kmur, but they didnt see it. that had to have made a difference. >> but there are other tools like smart phones and being able to prod fast from anywhere with your iphone or android device and the ability to share in that way. so these netwo...

Does it work, including e-mail? >> most religion people are against it and they boycott and we want to help people. most people look at porn, 70% in secre secrecy, so what with deis create x3watch, free for our pc and now its on iphone, on android, on your mac and it e-mails anything questionable you might visit so if you go to ronjeremy.com and my best friend jake larson and wife janette are going to get the time and date of that url of that website that i went to that contains questionable mat...

Technology, android, but i dont see them making a big impact this year. there will be more confusion this year. i think its -- this is another big year for apple. >> all right. steve jobs was originally supposed to be with you with a big announcement in san francisco, right? >> that will be live here, and we hit technical problems and weve had to put it off. >> im told he was very impressed with the product, is that right? >> yes. i was in london last week and was amazed. i was in a heavy confer...

We still dont know all the reasons behind it. we have not gotten confirmation from the egyptian government that they did it, but it seems they did. it seems the internet is for all intents and purposes shut down in egypt. thats added fuel to the fire. but nonetheless, youve seen in the last 24 hours a lot of people try to circumvent the block. people have been referring users to try to download applications on mobile phones and android phones, to go to other sites to dial in to isbs in france ev...

This person said all internet is being cut in here. this may be the last tweet. that was about 15 hours ago. nothing more from him since then. a lot of the other twitter users in cairo same thing. let me take you to twitter trend out of cairo, egypt. these are topics trending out of cairo. we see there are words like cairo, we see mubarak, we see dictator. a lot of people who have been able to use social media or twitter in the last several hours only through alternate ways. one way is through a...

Thats local here, for example, where are the defibrillators. >> reporter: at the moment the cpr device is only available on the iphone. but software designers are working to make it available on other devices, like the blackberry and the android. in san ramon, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> its interesting because theyre saying some of these apps, pocket first aid and cpr app rose in popularity after someone used it during the earthquake in haiti. they said they slowly noticed that app, the sales...