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World Service,28 mins

29/09/2009

Digital Planet

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There's news of the latest developments in the dispute over Google Books ambitious plans to digitalise the world's books. Gareth Mitchell travels to Kenya to talk to a visually impaired technologist who's been working on accessibility software that's already thrust those with similar disabilities in to decent jobs that they'd never previously been able to enjoy. In Japan the Digital Planet team finds out how to deal with neighbours hacking in to our next generation wi-fi kit: just brush them aside, with some very special wireless blocking paint.

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