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Daugherty becomes CTO of Great Lakes BioFuels

"We are very pleased to have a partner with Mark's research track record and technology start-up expertise," said H. Tony Hartmann, company CEO. "He is a perfect fit f...

Report card praises Wisconsin economy, but comes with warning

Wisconsin made the honor roll of a national economic development assessment group for its high quality of life and quality jobs. The 2006 Development Report Card for the States, released last week by the non-profit Corporation for Enterprise Development, gave the state an A in performance and Bs in business vitality and development capacity, based on 2004 data. But there were a...

Now comes the hybrid CIO

Leading indicators suggest the results are good. My favorite is the emergence of the hybrid CIO. One of the most telling measures of successful alignment is being...

Boston equity firm becomes majority owner of Cedarburg-based Mortgagebot

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Cloning ban comes before Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday

The proposed ban, known as AB 499, 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...

Women in technology confab comes to Wisconsin

Now that spring is in gear, women looking for new directions in technology business are heading to Lake Geneva for a "shorts and tee shirts" alternative to the traditional conference "Everybody has fon...

Historic observatory becomes hot property on Lake Geneva

The University of Chicago has put its Yerkes Observatory, an ornate building on Wisconsin's Lake Geneva, up for sale to fund "making this century's discoveries," the Chicago Tribune reported. Historic, beautiful and obsolete, the observatory sits on 77 lakeside acres in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, and is a reminder of technology's inevitable replacement. Now more recreational site than cent...

Online matchmaking comes to the boardroom

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Christmas comes early with Treo 650

I have been anticipating this day like a child waits for Christmas. Today, I saw the new Treo six weeks ago in a private suite at the <a target="blank" href="htt...

DataPod becomes BeInSync so you can, too

Sharing files (Source: BeInSync) BeInSync, the software, uses secur...

Instant messaging comes to groups

Today, Palo Alto-based start-up Five Across introduced a new instant messenger system, called InterComm. At first blush, another IM system may seem redundant, silly and unnecessary. After all, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo already capture the vast majority of consumer IM users. What can a newcomer bring to the party to upset that triumvirate? The answer, it turns out, is plenty . . . and it doesn'...

Choice of next UW president comes down to matching skills with the challenge

MADISON Heres how a truthful employment ad for the job of University of Wisconsin President might have read: HELP WANTED Major Midwest university system seeks a chief executive officer who can multi-task and keep the following groups happy: Board of Regents, professors, academic staff, students and campus chancellors, most of whom can overrule or ignore you. State legislators also c...

With Larger Storage Capacity Comes Smaller Devices

Just six months after the June 2003 launch of the 1.5 GB Cornice Storage Element (SE), , has introduced the 2.0-gigabyte Cornice Storage Element. These storage devices are used in consumer electronics, portable d...

German Life Science Oktoberfest Comes to the Midwest

CHICAGO Germany has often been regarded as the economic motor of the European community particularly with its central geographic location. Its just south of Scandinavia, to the east of the U.K. and France, just north of Switzerland, Austria and Italy and west of the east European countries of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. With about 83 million people, it has not only one of E...

Choice Comes To PDAs

For a very long stretch, unless you dropped your PDA on hard pavement or put it through the wash, there really was no reason to upgrade to a new one. Barring a few bells and whistles intended to attract the enterprise volume buyer, PDAs offered little in the way of new styling or functionality for the typical executive. That began to change this past spring when Palm (now palmOne) rolled out addi...

Doyle and the Legislature Have Much To Agree Upon When It Comes To The Economy

MADISON Remember this summers property tax freeze budget proposal? Legislative Republicans voted for it because they thought it was great politics; many of them were less convinced the freeze was good policy and secretly hoped Doyle would veto it. Thats how it may be with Democrats and Gov. Jim Doyles proposal to raise the state minimum wage, which is currently $5.15 per hour. Theyll ch...