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Venture Investors to open Michigan office

The Madison venture capital firm, which recently moved into a larger space in the MGE Innovation Center in <a href="http:/...

Space Place opens new astronomy center

"We had pretty much outgrown our other place where we'd been for 15 yea...

NanoRite Innovation Center opens with small science, big promise

NanoRite, part business incubator and...

TomoTherapy opens technical training center

The company, which recently raised $213 million in an initial public offering of stock, said engineers, physicists, and radiation technicians are among the professionals who will receive on-sit...

TeraMedica embraces open source project

is lending its expertise to developing an open source digital imaging and communicati...

State should keep open mind on nuclear power

Wisconsin's donor-state status isn't going to change soon, despite the be...

Merge files financial reports by market opening

The medical imaging and software developer was given an Aug. 29 deadli...

Japanese telecom opens liason office at UW-Platteville

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. is opening a liason office with one or two staff members on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus. Hiroki Tanaka, vice president and general manager of NTT Energy and Environment Systems Laboratories, is responsible for seeking out opportunities for the company to expand further in the area. NTT and UW-Platteville began their relationship dur...

Eau Claire business-plan contest opens

For interested entrepreneurs, the EDC is holding a business planning seminar on March 29. Then entrants in the <a href="http://...

GE Healthcare opens facility meant for 2,000 employees

In all, 2,000 people will work at the new facility. In addition to its Waukesha location, employees will also move from offices in Menomonee Falls and Brookfield.<...

Space port could open in Sheboygan in next 10 years

Private space flights could be launched from Wisconsin in the next ten years, according to a proposal that has passed the Joint Finance Committee 14-1 and could reach the Senate for a vote this month. State Senator Joe Leibham, R-Sheboygan, has a vision of a private spaceport in Wisconsin that would be regulated similarly to airports. Leibhams bill, SB 352, would establish a Wisconsin Ae...

The Croquet Project: An open source solution to the OS monopoly

For the past few years, it has been the goal of a research team working from the and the <a...

Open source software -- Managing the legal risks

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Research on fruit flies opens up possibilities for human treatments

The study, authored by researchers including UW-Madison molecular ge...

Paper technology transfer center opens in Green Bay

Organizers of the new Wisconsin is the nation's top...

Screen-door security: most wireless networks left wide open

I'm not normally one to participate in scare tactics. However, there is one area where I finally decided it's appropriate to do this, and that is wireless security. Oh sure, there are various articles and such that describe the "improved security" of built-in encryption technologies (WPA versus WEP, and so on). The problem is that at least half of us use no security, and that's just plai...

SBC merger with AT&T could open opportunities in Wisconsin

After Drew Petersen, director of legislative affairs for ,...

Landweber on networks, open source, and NSF budget cuts

knows networks. The University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of computer science, a department member since 1967, helped forge some of the early international channels of the Internet. He also has an idea of where networks are heading and its all about finding the right...

Nanotech exhibit opens at UW-Madison

, an exhib...

UW open-source 3D environment tapped for commercial development

The company announ...

Test center for RFID capabilities opens next week

, of Sussex, built the f...

UW-Madison releases open 3D collaboration environment

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Doyles Japan trip opens doors and minds for Wisconsin

From September 25 to October 1, a team of 27 university and corporate representatives visited Japan to network with and tour Japanese industry, discussi...

Rockwell Automation opens new RFID lab

MILWAUKEE recently announced the opening of a new radio frequency identification, or RFID, test lab at the company's global headquarters in Milwaukee. The lab, which simulates a factory warehouse, is designed to help manufacturers facing production and inventory mandates from retailers understand how they can make RFID tec...

Open Letter: Blasted Worm

Congratulations, Knucklehead! You did it; you brought Bill Gates to his tender knees. Oh, yes, you could hear the cries ringing throughout the Microsoft campus. 'Curses, you worm writer, you!" It echoed among the buildings, all but drowning out the sawing sound of the gnashing of teeth. And beneath the whimpers you could almost hear Billy saying it: "I will, I will, I promise I will sto...

Interview: Billpoint Founder Jason May on eBay, Open Source

My first experience with computers was an introductory programming class in 1979 using the TRS-80 model 1. I discovered e-mail, Usenet and the fledgling Internet when I started college in 1985. There have certainly been enormous changes since then, b...