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World Service,28 mins

23/02/2010

Digital Planet

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Microsoft agrees to inform EU Internet Explorers of the possibility of other Browsers - Mozilla's Mitchell Baker comments; Geoff Adams-Spink visits a demonstration in Germany of technology to integrate home appliances for those of us needing care around the house; at the AAAS Chris Manning specifically speaks computer speak around the need to teach computers to re-specify the under-specified better to understand human speech; Emma Wallis visits the virtual citizens of Partenope, a community of shared moral standards in – or somehow amongst – the Italian city of Naples.

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