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BY CHRIS EDWARDS
A Florida-based company says it has basic technology that could dramatically increase the amount of data that can be transmitted or stored using a form of compression that turns conventional digital communications theory on its head.
Peter St George, founder and CEO of ZeoSync, believes the company's technology can break through the `Shannon limit' on communications; a limit described by Dr Claude Shannon in his seminal paper of 1948. St George says that, with Dr Shannon's theories, information is made up of redundant data and singularities, or pieces of data that appear only once.
"That genetic carries through all compression techniques used today," said St George. "But they...