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    The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has talked up the prospects of the semantic Web, which he calls the "Web of the future".

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    Software which links ordinary mobile phones into a smart camera surveillance network has been developed by Swiss researchers.

  • Power your electronic device with paper?

    A team of American scientists have developed a flexible, paper battery which could power electronic devices in the future.

  • Fibre optic networks to break light speed?

    German scientists claim to have broken the light speed barrier, which could blow away the known limitations of modern networking but the technology is unlikely to make it into a product -- if at all -- until most administrators working today have retired.

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