Now, it turns out, the vision of an open-neck future was but a mirage.

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The ever-present Martyn Williams was on hand to play the link as a classic open-side should and he had the vision to ignore the obvious pass to the supporting Filise, who was covered, and pass outside to arch-finisher Halfpenny.

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One open question in this vision of services built with hyper-connected smart devices: who owns the relationship with the customer?

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This is a first step toward that vision of interoperability and true, open, real-time communication on the web.

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