According to the Wall Street Journal, the company has decided to block Google Wallet (NASDAQ: GOOG) from new phones on its network, which means that Verizon customers who buy the upcoming Galaxy Nexus will be without a digital option.

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The Flint Journal reported this week that a Michigan school district recently had to block access to college basketball games over its computer network.

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It is unlikely to be a coincidence that the new advice comes on the day that a combined BBC Newsnight and British Medical Journal investigation reports that problems with such devices have been long known, but no action taken to block their use.

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