Verizon Wireless has always taken great strides to protect the security of its customers and its network using sophisticated network intrusion and data analysis tools.

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Among the drivers are identity and security, data analysis and personalization, network optimization, contextual services, next generation communications services and monetization.

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Therefore, it is possible to apply a lot of cutting-edge social network and social gaming-type analysis to the data.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said that their analysis of temperature data from a global network of weather stations indicated that the average temperature for 2012 was 0.57C above the 20th Century average.

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There are mashups that let you see which products are selling best on eBay , that help manage the sale of foreclosed property through a network of real estate agents, or merge sales information with data mining from analysis firm Business Objects .

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According to internet and network analysis firm Renesys, the cable lit up with activity last week with data flowing through it between Telefonica and the nation's state telecom company, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA).

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Today, we have appliances that can run three layers of anti-virus, advanced data protection algorithms, global reputation analysis, and real-time acceptable use filtering in the network.

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What we need is a construct with teeth, an established network of industry-independent researchers (not contractors) equipped to evaluate trial design, statistical power, data analysis, and interpretation, not as regulators but as contributors to final research publications.

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