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Last broadcast on Mon, 9 Nov 2009, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Simon Cox looks at one rural community that isn't willing to wait on the telecoms industry and is building its own high-speed broadband network.
Digital Photo Fitting
Simon is joined by Dr Christopher Solomon to see a demonstration of his revolutionary software for the building of a photo fit images of suspects in criminal investigations.
Simon's e-fit
Foiling Film Piracy
Simon visits the Vue Cinema in North London to look at the efforts going into foiling pirates attempting to illicitly film new releases.
Rural Broadband
Click On reporter Peter McManus visits Arnisdale in the remote west highlands of Scotland to look at their community Broadband network. By using wireless links homes in the area are benefitting from up to 20 megps. So could this model be rolled out to other communities and what public support would it need?
Open Source
Simon is joined by regular Rupert Goodwins and 'open source' expert Glyn Moody to discuss whether it can ever compete with proprietary software when it comes to desktop computing?
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Mon 9 Nov 200916:30
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