CeBIT, the world's largest high-tech fair showcasing gadgets and innovations from around the world, is opening in Hanover, Germany [AFP]
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This year's event will focus on the social impact of the internet. A survey released on the eve of the fair showed 90 per cent of Germans believed the internet was a blessing, and 55 per cent could not imagine life without it [AFP]
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Arnold Schwarzenneger, the governor of California, will be a guest of honour at CeBIT, which begins on Tuesday March 3 and runs until Sunday [AFP]
Schwarzenegger and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, were to hold speeches at the fair before touring the grounds [AFP]
About 4,300 firms from 69 countries are displaying the latest in technological developments at CeBIT, a quarter fewer than in 2008, because of the financial downturn [AFP]
But Germany's high-tech industry is hoping to buck the economic crisis this year, Bitkom, the industry's chief lobby group, said [AFP]
Bitkom said turnover in information technology, telecommunications and digital consumer electronics will hold steady at about $183m in 2009 [AFP]
