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Welcome to Digital Planet, the weekly BBC World Service programme that reports on technology stories from around the globe.
On this week's Digital Planet Gareth Mitchell finds out how scientists in Bangladesh predicted when and where Cyclone Sidr would hit.
And how spending too much time online could easily be noticed by your boss.
Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh on November 15th bringing winds of up to 240km/h (150mph) and a tidal surge of several metres.
Scientists working at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department calculated where and when the storm would reach land.
Gareth Mitchell speaks to the centre's director Dr. Samarendra Karmakar who tells Digital Planet that they had twenty seven hours warning of landfall.
Managing the internet, freedom of expression and increased access were just some of the issues discussed at the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro.
Reporter Helen Clegg was at the meeting to find out if children can use the web safely.
Are you reading this website at work when you should be doing something that you are getting paid for?
It seems that many people are spending work time online and in many cases not on work related sites.
The popularity of some social networking sites means that companies are banning access to them from the office.
Gareth Mitchell speaks to Derk Erb, who set up a facebook group for listeners of his favourite radio programme - Digital Planet!
But how are company bosses fighting back? David Hobson, Managing Director of UK based security company GSS has banned certain sites during office hours.
It is the place where some of the world's first programmable computers were used to crack German command codes during the World War II.
After the war, many of these machines were destroyed, as were the blueprints behind them. But now one of them is running again.
Jo Keown went to see for herself the result of a fourteen year project to reconstruct Colossus - a programmable and electronic computer.
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