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• Google's Self-Driving Car: Will Hollywood's Dream Become Reality?

  Google <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/207416/googles_selfdriving_cars_a_ride_drive_down_memory_lane.html">self-driving cars</a> may someday let us nap at the wheel, but in Hollywood driverless cars such as K.I.T.T. are old news. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently announced the search engine giant was <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at.html">actively testing autonomous cars</a> and had already logged 140,000 miles with its fleet. The technology isn't quite ready, but don't tell that to Hollywood.

• VeriSign: We will keep our lead in IPv6

  VeriSign, the back-end operator of the Internet's.com and .net domains, says it has a head start on transition to the next-generation Internet Protocol known as <a href=" http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/lans/2010/042810-ipv6-tutorial.html">IPv6</a> and that it intends to keep its lead over competitors.

• John Lewis launches mobile retail site

  John Lewis has today launched a mobile version of its retail website, johnlewis.com.

• Credit Suisse saves power with virtualization

  Banking giant Credit Suisse has found a way to stem its seemingly ever-growing need for electricity, through the use of virtualization.

• Pioneer preps laser head-up display for 2012

  Pioneer is developing a head-up display for cars that links in with the navigation function available on many modern smartphones. A prototype of the device is on show this week at Japan's Ceatec electronics show, and the company said it hopes to have a commercial model available in 2012.

• IBM explores water management market

  Divining a possible new market in municipal water management systems, IBM has set up a pilot project in Dubuque, Iowa, to investigate whether cities could both save money and conserve water by monitoring citizens' usage more closely.

• Zeus botnet bank thieves were careless with own security

  Suspects charged with stealing more than US$9.4 million from U.K. banks using the Zeus botnet apparently spent more time figuring out the logistics of stealing the money than they did on securing their cyber operation.

• Wall Street not bullish on cloud

  Wall street firms have been slow to take full advantage of the potential financial and resource savings available through cloud computing because they have security and regulatory concerns, say IT executives.

• FCC takes 'free love' approach to white spaces spectrum

  The Federal Communications Commission's new approach to dealing with white spaces spectrum has gone from "proceed with utmost caution" to "if a channel looks open, use it."

• Panasonic robot gives 16-finger, automated hair washing

  Panasonic has developed a hair-washing robot that uses 16 electronically controlled fingers to give a perfect wash and rinse, the company said Friday.

• U.S. military takes cloud computing to Afghanistan

  TAMPA -- The U.S. military is taking cloud computing into rugged terrain in Afghanistan, where according to Lt. Gen. Richard Zahner, the basic hardware and software technology is being packed into mobile boxes that later this year will start to play a key role in networking for soldiers in the sky and on the ground.

• Was Stuxnet built to attack Iran's nuclear program?

  A highly sophisticated computer worm that has spread through Iran, Indonesia and India was built to destroy operations at one target: possibly Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor.

• Google Transparency Report shows U.S., Brazil make most data removal requests

  Google has introduced a Transparency Report that lets you see which countries are asking the search company for data on its users and making requests for data removal.

• Internet privacy conflicts

  The Wall Street Journal just published the sixth article in its excellent series about Internet privacy, or the lack of it.

• Are colleges and universities at greater risk of data breaches?

  A database security vendor says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins.