Word: virtualization
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...spurred by the prospect of scientific glory and enormous profit, big pharmaceutical firms and university and government labs have been joined by scores of new companies, not just in Cambridge but in Montgomery County, Md., Silicon Valley and other high-tech hot spots around the nation. It's a virtual gold rush to mine the mountain of potentially valuable data the genome contains...
...VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY Despite Katie Couric's crusade to educate the public about the importance of screening for colon cancer, there are still too many people who resist being tested because of discomfort or cost; an estimated 70% of the population is never screened. A new noninvasive screening technique may offer those most at risk a lifesaving alternative. Dubbed virtual colonoscopy, it uses digital data generated by multiple computer scans to create a high-resolution 3-D image of the intestine, which can then be displayed on a computer screen and visually probed for tell-tale polyps...
...Brown admitted that her website fell short (some suspect far short) of its original goal of signing up 30,000 paying subscribers at about $200 a pop. Like other online information sources, from Microsoft's Slate.com to TheStreet.com Inside.com overestimated people's willingness to spend real money for a virtual product. "It's one of the Darwinian realities of starting a new business now," says Michael Hirschorn, co-chairman of Powerful Media. "You don't have the luxury to kick back and say, 'Let's build brand awareness' and 'leverage eyeballs.' You have to prove yourself very quickly...
...VIRTUAL BABY SITTERS A new report suggests that as family playtime continues to shrink, parents who once used their televisions as baby sitters are now doing the same with their home computers. More than half the British parents polled in the study (commissioned by toymaker Hasbro) spend four hours or less each week playing with their children. Only a third of the adults restrict the time their kids spend on computers, and a third say they have no concern for their children's safety while they are online...
...Many charge that the problems, which range from inadequate food to lice-ridden bedsheets to virtual lockdown conditions, stem from the fact that the INS has not paid close enough attention to the surroundings in American detention centers. "A big part of the problem has to do with the INS's practice of contracting out to private firms who are in charge of the actual detention," says University of Delaware political science professor Mark Miller, who is an expert on immigration politics. "Some of these firms should not have been awarded contracts, and it took the INS a long time...