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Microsoft Licensing 50% of Androids. Microsoft just revealed that, thanks to a deal with Compal, it's signed up enough significant companies that over 50% of All Android devices sold, with Google technology inside, are sold with an MS license. The figure is non-trivial, since Android has now swept the board as the most popular mobile operating system, and it competes with MS's own Windows Phone 7 product. --KE
Netflix Will Stream To U.K. And Ireland In 2012. Four years after Netflix launched in the U.S. they've announced that they'll expand their streaming service across the Atlantic to the U.K. and Ireland. Movie buffs will be able to stream to tablets, PCs, and phones. There's been no word yet about their getting DVDs by mail. In 2010, Netlifx expanded to Canada, and started streaming to 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in September this year. --NS
Google Launches Person Finder in Turkish. In the aftermath of the earthquake that shook Eastern Turkey on Sunday afternoon, Google has launched Person Finder--their publicly visible and editable tracking system for missing people who've been located--in Turkish. The service is one of the tools that Google's Crisis Response system deploys following a large scale disaster, and has been used after Haiti's 2010 earthquake, after the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, and after the Japan tsunami. --NS
NASA Mulling Filling Stations In Space. "Propellant depots" are space-based fuel stations that NASA is considering using, to allow crafts to refuel while in space. Current spacecrafts carry their store of fuel for the whole mission with them. NASA engineers will meet next month to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of using a space filling system, and its potential for allowing more ambitious and longer missions, the New York Times explains. --NS
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--Updated 5:15 a.m. EST
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