Taking a wider approach, Intel hopes to establish a network of 100 Computer Clubhouses around the world to proliferate technology education among students between the ages of 8 and 18.

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He thinks there will be a paradigm shift, a world in which the network will be the computer.

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United Airlines also suffered widespread computer-network problems last summer that caused hundreds of flight delays around the world.

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Teledesic is a global network that aims in late 2002 to provide Internet access, video conferencing and computer network connections through 288 low- orbiting satellites to its customers no matter where in the world they are.

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Created by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, the institute has announced support from the Omidyar Network and from the World Bank, to help collect evidence globally on the benefits of open data and train senior people who will lead open data initiatives in developing countries.

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