CNN has acquired Zite, a company that developed an iPad that has a personalized magazine-like interface. The announcement was made by Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide.

The NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers has handed out iPads to each of the team’s 90 players as a new type of playbook. This is different from the massive amounts of printed out documents put together by each team for plays. The Buccaneers will be able to view the team playbook, refer to game footage, and review videos of their opponents on the iPad.

Rob Spence is a filmmaker who put a video camera in his skull to replace an eye that he lost in a shotgun incident. Rather than connecting the camera to his brain, he decided to use the bionic eye to be a “lifecaster.” The eye would record the feed to an external device. Spence partnered with a company called Square Enix to create a short film called Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Check out the video above [warning: some of the content is graphic]. [Engadget]

TomTom has announced a new GPS device called the Go Live 1535M. The 1535M is arriving in October, which is considered “the world’s first portable navigation device with a suite of popular travel apps.” Apps built in to the GPS includes Yelp, Expedia, Twitter, and TripAdvisor. The GPS also has hands-free calling, real-time traffic information, fuel prices, weather forecasts, and local search. If you have the 2535M model, then you can download the new features this fall through an update. The price of the device will start at $250. Press release is below:

Michigan State University professor of civil and environmental engineering Syed Hashsham, Michigan State University professor Jim Tiedje, and University of Michigan professor of Chemical Engineering Erdogan Gulari is working on a low-cost and hand-held device for nations with limited resources to help physicians detect and diagnose cancer. The device is called the Gene-Z device, which can be operated using an iPod Touch or Android tablet.

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has acquired a private San Francisco based company called Versly. Versly has integrated collaboration capabilities within Microsoft Office applications through a plug-in. Versly’s application allows people to collaborate around documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and e-mail.

Samsung Electronics is launching a new service called ChatON. ChatON is a cross-platform mobile chatting service that is similar to RIM’s BBM service on BlackBerry devices. Samsung is expected to launch the service in September. The operating systems that ChatON is expected to work on include Bada, Android, iOS, and BlackBerry.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to block AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) to merge with T-Mobile. AT&T proposed a $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA. The Justice Department believes that the acquisition of T-Mobile would “substantially lessen competition.” The complaint was filed in a federal court in Washington. “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low- priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market,” stated the U.S. in a filing.