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05/01/2010

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Consumer Electronics Show; audio search engine; iWarrior; Montenegrin domain name sale

There's a preview of the Consumer Electronic Show.  News of plans for an audio search engine.  A Kenyan computer game, iWarrior, lands on smart-phones.  And Montenegrin domain names for sale.

In the lead up to the annual Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, Rory Cellan-Jones offers a preview of the upcoming highlights and gadgets for the future.

John Coleman of the Oxford Phonetics Laboratory reveals the plans for a search engine for speech.

How to keep hyena and other predators out of your village – and have fun whilst you're at it, with a computer.  iWarrior is on its way from Kenya to a smart-phone.

And report on how Montenegro is making big business out of its top level domain name – dot ME.

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