Twenty years ago today the nuclear research centre CERN put out a press release announcing that it was making freely available something called the World Wide Web, "a global computer networked information system".

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Engineers working for car companies and using networked computer-aided design terminals still file their ideas directly to the server for the chief designer to approve rather than bouncing them around among colleagues for collective improvement.

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PCs are another thing: the advance of networked-computer systems in business has already led, he argues, to a new surge of organisational innovation.

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The new Onkyo TX-NR807 also capable of playing computer music files from networked PCs, is fully compatible with the Digital Living Network Alliance's DLNA 1.5 consumer electronics interoperability specification, and sells for less than half the price of the company's previous network-capable model.

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Broad deployment of networked slots will depend on regulatory approval and how fast casinos want to pay for a big computer upgrade.

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