The technology framework: lack of standards and the huge bandwidth appetite of full-motion multimedia are very present obstacles but won't be for long

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The entire computer industry will benefit from the use of full-motion, video-based multimedia computing once the roadblocks to its implementation are removed, such as the excess of data required to represent a voice or video signal. The gap between multimedia developers and users is already narrowing with a new generation of multimedia authoring tools, including DOS- and Windows-based professional and business applications for use on X86-based microcomputers, Macintosh-based entertainment and education applications, and Unix workstation tools for engineering and professional applications. The applications will rely heavily on hypertext, which provides a common object-oriented methodology of associative linking. However, the majority of multimedia computing solutions largely remain makeshift solutions.

Technological forecasting, Multimedia technology, Multimedia systems, Compatibility (Computers), Compatible Hardware, Compatible Software, Applications, Future of Computing, Video Systems

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Untangling a new breast cancer screening technology

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Fermiscan Holdings plans to commercialize a breast-cancer-screening technology that would replace X-ray mammography by testing a hair sample with the use of a synchrotron. The technique is based on technology licensed from physics professor Veronica James who found a difference in the diffraction pattern from hair samples of women with breast cancer. James' technique, however, has not been reproduced by at least seven research groups.

Australia, Strategy & planning, HEALTH SERVICES, Health aspects, Planning, Innovations, Health care industry, Diagnosis, Breast cancer, Cancer, Hair, Synchrotron, Synchrotrons, Company business planning, Cancer screening, Physics teachers, James, Veronica

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