The U.N.-backed forum is building on a decision by the body responsible for domains, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, to allow Web site addresses in any language.

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Just as with your computer, the new TVs and phones will be all-digital and have Internet addresses. n Smart chips in everyday things will spread even faster.

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Wally Bowen, who runs a small Internet company in Asheville, N.

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Not merely dial-up Internet connection (the U.N. has decreed that before), but the kind of fast, seamless service Americans find at any Starbucks.

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