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The Multimedia Factory

'The Multimedia Factory was the first multimedia company in Cyprus launched in 1992.

It was founded as a subsidiary of MIDnTED Ltd. with Yiannis Laouris, George Vakanas and Maria Symeonides also as shareholders. TMF was serving also CYBER KIDS as a technology group working with kids ages 8-12 to develop their projects into final commercial products.

Animations for Institute of Technology, 1993
Multimedia package for Electric Authority, 1994
Educational Multimedia Game for Electric Authority, 1997
Occupied Cyprus; 6-language Multimedia Information System (at airports and museums), 1997-1998
Hotel Information System "HISystem", 1994

The Multimedia Factory enjoyed substantial visibility from many media.

Vakanas, G., Laouris, Y., Symeonidou, M., Loizou, E., Stylianou, S., Kouppe, P., and Georgiades, D. (1994). Mythology as a rich and meaningful context for integrated learning of literacy, numeracy and scientific inference: New possibilities. In J. Wright & D. Benzie (Eds.), Exploring a New Partnership: Children, Teachers and Technology, Proceedings of the IFIP TC3/WG3. 5 International Working Conference on Exploring a New Partnership: Children, Teachers and Technology, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 26 June - 1 July, 1994. IFIP Transactions A-58 Elsevier 1994, pp. 173-179.

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 ==Educational Software development==
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-! Name Gold
+! Name
 ! Period
 |-
-! Quick Story Gold
+| Quick Story Gold
-! 1996-98
+| 1996-98
 |-
 | Draw & Paint
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 ==Educational Software development: “Factories for Research Projects”==
-Name	Period
+{| class="wikitable"
-CD Factory	2002
+! Product
-Calculator Factory	2002
+! Period
-Browser Factory	2002
+|-
-Emailer Factory	2002
+| CD Factory
-Fairy Tales Factory	2002
+| 2002
+|-
+| Calculator Factory
+| 2002
+|-
+| Browser Factory
+| 2002
+|-
+| Emailer Factory
+| 2002
+|-
+| Fairy Tales Factory
+| 2002
+|}