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Verizon Wireless and WeatherBug today unveiled WeatherBug Protect, an application deseigned to bring the most relevant and up to date weather information to Verizon Wireless customers' mobile phones.

WeatherBug Protect is intended to bring weather notifications to Verizon Wireless customers, wherever they may be, giving them advanced warning of severe weather conditions, be it snow and ice, tornadoes, lightning, excessive heat or any other potentially dangerous conditions. The application

Bug Labs will be introducing an innovative new device next month called the BUG. It is essentially a collection of hardware modules that can be connected in various ways to form new devices. The modules, called BUGmodules, are all built with open source software and include components such as GPS, digital/video camera, color touch LCD screen, accelerometer/motion sensor, and many more.

The foundation of the device is called Bugbase, a programmable and "hackable" Linux computer with a fast CPU, 128MB RAM, Ethernet, USB, WiFi, and a small LCD (see the tech specs. The base has four connectors which link with the Bugmodules, so the user can come up with any combination he