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World Service,18 mins

14/06/2011

Digital Planet

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Luke Robert Mason and Rachel Armstrong report on Virtual Futures which has been described as the Glastonbury rock festival of cyberculture. The results from World IPv6 Day. IPv6 is the protocol through which all internet addresses will be governed in the next few years. For just one day, companies like Google, Facebook and Yahoo! clubbed together to see if their webpages addressed using the new protocol would work. Richi Jennings assesses the impact of the future IPv6. COMPUTEX Taipei Expo is the largest computer exhibition in Asia and the second largest in the world. Cindy Sui reports on the buzz around all of the gadgets, especially the ultra-thin notebooks that have been the talk of this year's Expo.

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