Imagine this: Intel hosts an event with dozens of Ultrabooks arranged on tables.

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The event will include international conferences, public debates, round tables and training courses.

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At the repas, the big meal after the event, Hutton was forced to stand in the midst of all the tables and people, for it was his 40th birthday, while 'Happy Birthday' or its equivalent was sung in English, Breton, French, Friesian, Spanish, and Tunisian.

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It became an even more grand event when the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall arrived, walking down the line of tables and even stopping to sit down on a potentially soggy seat to chat to some of those munching their food.

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The Wall Street Journal Deutschland recently held a tech cafe event in the heart of the capital's startup district, Mitte, and much of the talk around the tables of the Kaffeemitte was on German entrepreneurship.

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