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New wireless networking chips for handheld devices are giving second life to the 802.11b standard and could soon test the theory that Wi-Fi and mobile data services can work hand in hand rather than compete.
Two Singapore programmers claim to have created an operating system that can run programs written for different platforms such as Windows and Linux.
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