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In music, organ pipes whose upper end is left open and which, unlike the stopped pipes, produce notes corresponding to their full length.

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Interactive television service launched in the UK in 1999, and available free of charge to viewers of BSkyB's digital television service. Open covers home shopping and banking, entertainment (including computer games), information (weather reports, holiday ideas, and sports results), and Internet e-mail (for which special keypads are available).

The company is owned by BSkyB, BT, HSBC Holdings, and Matsushita.



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