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UV Absorbance Measurements in SpectraMax Microplate Spectrophotometers MaxLine Application Note #32)

Molecular Devices Corporation. 7/99 In 1994, Molecular Devices introduced SPECTRAmax , the first microplate reader equipped with a monochromator, rather than bandpass filters, for wavelength selection. It was also the first microplate reader capable of measuring absorbance below 340 nm. These new features transformed the micropl...

National broadband policy: Let's get it right this time

Several articles have popped up that discuss the need, but do not reflect some of the keys to making it right. One <a href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/...

Historic lists - The greatest rock bands, rock guitarists of all time

Can you imagine this: a week of playing rock all...

Nebraska bank benefits from Fiservs integrated solutions

Brookfield, Wis. A Midwestern community bank can now remove the guesswork out of customer profitability analyses, based on the integration of two technologies from two separate divisions of Wisconsin-based Fiserv. , located in Laurel, Nebraska, can now view financial relationship data from any of its desktops and ident...

Trouble-shooting: Non-specific bands

Here are some troubleshooting hints that we have gathered regarding non-specific bands after PCR reactions: <a href="#Option1">Non-optimal Mg<s...

Trouble-shooting: Smeared bands

Here are some troubleshooting hints that we have gathered regarding smeared bands after PCR reactions: <a href="#Option4">Primer annealing temperature is too low...

Wideband sensitivity of the FluoroLog-3

Many companies claim high sensitivity for their spectrofluorometers. In their specifications, instrument vendors often cite excitation of de-ionized water at 350 nm, which results in Raman emission at 397 nm (an energy loss of 3380 cm ). This Raman-emission band of water is used, because the signal is red-shifted and weak...

Techware to extend broadband wireless network to Butler

The company, which started the build out in Germantown, said it will begin to deliver broadband service that is capable of providing speeds up to 14 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega...

New Urbanism: Community planning Feng Shui

The need to have a rebirth of the American municipality. The need to create a solid platform for economic...

Purchase of Madison broadband network may bring improved service

, according to a report in the <a href="http://www.madison....

Verizon expands broadband service in Wisconsin

According to Verizon, customers will be able to upload fi...

Yasnoff: Wisconsin should invest in health record bank

Yasnoff, founder of the eHealth Trust Initiative, continues to advocate that states or regions create a central repository, or bank, for all ele...

Bandwidth provider expands in Milwaukee

The company, which serves Midwestern enterprise and carrier customers, expects the expansion to occur by Jan. 31 of this year. US Signal's network...

Big banks join electronic check-clearing network

Twelve of the nation's lar...

RFID pilot project aims to improve blood banks

is partnering with three blood banks and multiple vendor partners on what is b...

Carlini beats drum for high-speed broadband

To Carlini, president of , moving from dial-up Internet service to DSL is like adding vinyl to the top of a stagecoach. Why bother when there is a <a href="ht...

Techware revives broadband project

Techware, which provides computer consult...

Wait `till next year OK for baseball, not broadband

There should be as m...

Nation's only stem cell bank will receive UC-San Francisco cell line

Beth Donley, executive director of the <a href="http://www.wi...

Donley has growth plans for stem cell bank

Donley, who led litigation and patent-drafting e...

Broadband blues: Don't fall for Lightspeed hype

In the great race for global competitiveness, economic development equals broadband connectivity and broadband connectivity equals jobs. The fuel for broadband connectivity is the need for speed. Thats all the consumer need...

Rural company works to improve broadband

, a satellite-based broadband acce...

Municipal broadband in Illinois: Where are the standards?

Quinn had some encouraging remarks about keeping the playing field open f...

Metavante broker technology licensed to ING Bank

In the move, IN...

Roll out the broadband

Following the passage of Senate Bill 483, also known as the Broadband Deployment Act, the state aims to extend what some have called the "21 Century infrastructure" to rural and other underserved areas. Go...

Fiserv's Banklink chosen by Union Bank of California

The iLINK Remote Deposit module, which will be used for remote corporate capture...

SGI receives court approval for bankruptcy motions

The approval came during a hearing in which the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York granted approval o...

Broadband deployment measure goes to governor

The bills, Assembly Bill 892 and Senate Bill 483, are known as the Broadband Deployment Act. They would provide $7.5 million in income tax credits to pr...

Broadband bill will help develop rural Wisconsin

Thats not the case if you live or work in rural Wisconsin, where high-speed access to the Inter...

Notion of bandwidth spedometers for DSL, cable sparks controversy

Is the advertised high-speed Internet access you're paying for actually what you're receiving? Two weeks ago, the simple issue of whether DSL and high-speed cable providers should supply bandwidth speedometers to customers got many people talking nationwide, writes adjunct Northwestern professor James Carlini. Since this topic was suggested, quite a bit of feedback rolled in on a DSL Rep...

Broadband access needs a champion, FCC commissioner says

Speaking before the ninth annual Midwestern Telecommunications and Technology Conference at Marquette University, Milwaukee native Michael J. Copps said the nation has establ...

Bank to offer check deposits over the Internet

Companies that purchased the service would use a special scanner to send check images over the Internet to the bank, where they would be processed, verified and deposited. It's a concept that First Business Bank president and COO Michael Losenegger said has ta...

Wisconsin banks invest in new Minnesota venture fund

M&I Bank of Milwaukee and Associated Bank of Green Bay have joined a new $125 venture fund that intends to invest in Midwest companies. of Minnetonka, Minnesota, launched the fund along with a roster of banks from around the country and some individual investors. The firm invests in, and acquires, small businesses in m...

Proposed Illinois broadband act falls short

Last week, I was sent an announcement of pending Illinois broadband legislation (20 ILCS 3921/10), which was announced on Jan. 25. Here's its synopsis: Creates the Universal Access to Broadband Services Act. Requires the Department of Central Management Services (CMS) to create and maintain a map of broadband infrastructure in the state. Sets forth that all publicly held broadband...

The role of IT in Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404

Refco's CEO has been arrested, and while his innocence or guilt remains to be determined, Refco provides us with an e...

Doyle vetoes cloning ban

The bill would outlaw not only cloning for reproductive purposes but also what proponents call therapeutic or research cloning, in which an embryo is created with identical DNA as an original subject for the purposes of harvesting stem cells duri...

Fiserv to host risk mitigation seminars for bankers

Brookfield, Wis.--The...

Banquet will recognize tech, innovation grant awardees

The awards banquet will be preceded by an SBIR/STTR and technology transfer workshop. The workshop will focus on SBIR/STTR...

Bill would ban computers from landfills

Miller on Tuesday said he would introduce legislation similar to that he proposed in February, 2004, but with some changes to the original proposal. He expects broad legislativ...

Stem cell bank announcement validates quality of Wisconsin research

• The state of Wisconsin grants $1 million and loans another $1 million to a company formed by Dr. James Thomson, a UW-Madison researcher so renowned that the words "Nobel Prize" practically circle his head. The company has technolog...