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Google, Verizon teaming to develop Android devices; Windows Mobile 6.5: It's a shame it's so lame

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Google, Verizon teaming to develop Android devices

Verizon and Google have entered into an agreement to jointly develop wireless devices based on Google's open source Android mobile platform. Read full story

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It came from outer space: NASA innovations in our lives
Since the 1960s, NASA and its many research partners have developed a variety of products designed to keep the space shuttle safe, its astronauts healthy and comfortable, and to explore the far-reaches of our solar system. The materials and technologies they developed have proven as valuable on earth as they did in space. Here are eight consumer products that are truly heaven sent.

News podcast: Network World 360
IBM/Lotus said it will ship the long-anticipated real-time access support for the iPhone on its Domino messaging platform next week. Also, new research says that Apple boosted its Macintosh presence in American households by 33% in the last year. (5:36)

Lotus simplifies client licensing; makes Designer free
IBM/Lotus on Tuesday simplified its client licensing packages moving from 11 options to two, and the company for the first time made its Domino Designer tool free to anyone.

Father of fiber-optics snags share of Nobel Physics Prize
Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today's long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

Shields Up! Time to Start Blocking with your Cisco IPS Sensors
Cisco started to include reputation functionality in its IPS sensors about 6 months ago with its 7.0 release. The data has been collected on how effective it has been so far. The findings are significant.

Compression is so 2005
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Bitbucket's downtime is a cautionary cloud tale
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Disney, Verizon go green in the data center
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