But a positive effect of globalisation is that you can have a language that is spoken by only five or 50 people in one remote location, and now through digital technology that language can achieve a global voice and a global audience.

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This patented technology ensures that only real fingerprints are read by converting the properties of the skin into digital data which are delivered to the host computer for analysis.

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By the end of 2011 is it likely that there will only be three HDD companies (Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Toshiba) and a handful of independent companies making major HDD components (such as TDK, SDK and Fuji Electric).

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