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AT&T tech rollout will bring 200 jobs to Milwaukee

...ukee, Wis. - AT&T Wisconsin will create 200 new union jobs in Milwaukee to support the rollout of a new Internet-based video service that soon will be available in the Milwaukee area. In making the announcement, Scott T. VanderSanden, president of AT&T Wisconsin, and Seth Rosen, regional vice presiden...

GE acquisition may boost "early" healthcare strategy

...e only 70 miles apart. He called the acquisition a union of two "tremendously complementary" businesses, characterizing Abbott's diagnostic units as "kind of a plug in" to GE Healthcare's diagnostic prowess. "It does really speak to some of the regional cooperation that we've always thought needs to be on...

Mortgagebot builds online sales even as housing declines

...and delivery on new product enhancements. Credit union demand Mortgagebot, which was founded in 1997 and spun off from Marshall & Ilsley Corp. in 2001, serves 50 clients in Wisconsin. Although some of the smallest financial institutions are not equipped for mortgage lending, Happ said he views all 28...

Online scam targets credit union members

...ee, Wis. - More than two million Wisconsin credit union members are conceivable targets of a new identity ...n the state, several members of a Wisconsin credit union recently received an e-mail questionnaire prompting them to take part in a five-question survey and ...

Departure of nanotech researcher stings UW

...some of the financial consequences of the same-sex union debate in Wisconsin. Rob Carpick, an associate engineering physics professor and nanotechnology researcher, has won $3.4 million in grants since coming to Madison in 2000. At the end of the year, he will take his knowledge and research with him to t...

Cutting through the blog fog

...estate postings, and Skybox from CUES for credit union executives. J.J. Berrall, spokesperson for Red Prairie , a rapidly growing technology company, told me that they were considering blogs but that, "The challenge of course is continuously updating and providing cogent, interesting, and timely informa...

Fiserv to partner with PassMark Security

...uthentication technology to its banking and credit union clients. The move comes as financial institutions are under obligation, by the end of 2006, to comply with Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council requirements to evaluate and strengthen their customer authentication procedures during onl...

U.S. risks third-world status in key technology

...ing activities, including shareholder meetings and union elections.) Scytl spun out of the university research program that produced the first Ph.D. thesis on e-voting security. Perhaps not coincidently, the company took root only months after the 2000 U.S. presidential elections in Florida, recognizing t...

Madison - Wired and unplugged

... of State Street, the campus libraries and student union and outdoor terrace were full of people unplugged accessing the Internet. UW-Madison has announced plans to have wireless access for the entire campus by June 2006, by adding 2,200 access points for wireless access in 180 dorms, laboratories and admi...

Before deciding how to pay for K-12 schools, let's determine what to buy

... state legislators, business leaders and teachers' union representatives, administrators and school board members, taxpayer watchdogs and policy analysts. There's also a quiet sense of urgency among the task force members, few of whom seem satisfied with Wisconsin's current K-12 education policies. They w...

Midwest Venture Summit disappoints; Cato grades Midwest governors

...Wall Street Journal about Germany's largest trade union depicting U.S. investors in Germany as "bloodsucke...ning German companies. A German blogger noted the union attack bore a striking resemblance to 1930s Nazi propaganda against Jews. Perhaps U.S. investors sho...

Trade deficit hits home in Wisconsin

...e many of his railroad brethren hanging around the union hall these days. Theyre all working overtime handling the tremendous volume of freight traveling the nations rails. The trains arriving from the coasts are full (with foreign-made goods), Hicks said Feb. 17 at a La Crosse forum on globalization, but...

Wisconsin 2020: A vision from a state senator

... their products. Their workers are not necessarily union members or even employees. The configurations of firms are looser, avoiding rigidity at all costs. Worker productivity will skyrocket with the adoption of technologies like wireless broadband and the first wave of nanotechnology applications. Env...

Doubling the lily pads: Controlling the explosion in health care costs

...ofit corporation created by the Wisconsin teachers union for its members. Formed in 1970, the WEA Trust offers group health, dental, life and disability insurance plans. With more than 200,000 educators and their families under coverage, it is Wisconsins second-largest health insurer. The health-care cris...

Experts share advice for Wisconsin entrepreneur programs

...ness community in California, the one state in the union that can claim to be an economic power on its own. You can drive from Santa Barbara down to San Diego without ever leaving civilization, Hwang said. Larta was chartered in 1993 in response to a fiscal crisiswhich California seems to have once a de...

Theres a surprising, and positive, side to the offshore jobs debate

...ies are shipping too many jobs overseas, the labor union organized an eight-day, 18-city bus tour called Show Us the Jobs . Laid-off workers, students, a priest and creators of anti-offshoring Web sites were among the 51 people who toured Wisconsin and seven other states last week, countering similar tri...

Midwest Biotech: Watch India, the Next Biotech Frontier

...n is literate. 14. There are 28 states and seven union territories. 15. India declared its independence from the U.K. on Aug. 15, 1947. 16. New Delhi is the capital. 17. The president is chief of state with a vice president. However, the head of government is the prime minister. 18. About 26 perc...

Etiquette at Todays Midwest Technology Trade Show

...! Good news for trade show booth designers and the union electricians at McCormick Place. But what about for you and me who have to go and be trade show slaves for a few days? Well, here's my advice on making the best of it. First off, if you're a tech trade show newbie, forget the notion of a regular wo...

A Race without a Finish Line!

...ostly in the south, and dont have to deal with the union issue, or costly pensions of Detroit. General Motors is currently trying to sell ten billion dollars in bonds to deal with their under-funded pension problem, which in total is almost twenty billion dollars. To further add to their woes, there is c...