Declining worldwide demand has led to 200 layoffs at Hutchinson Technology Inc.'s manufacturing facility in Eau Claire, and company officials are not overly optimistic the trend will end anytime soon. "We believe the weakened demand we saw in the quarter resulted primarily from a decline in...
Stamford, Conn. - Gartner, Inc. has identified eight mobile technologies that will evolve significantly through 2010, impacting short-term mobile strategies and policies. “All mobile strategies embed assumptions about technology evolution so it's important to identify the technologies that will evolve quickly in the life span of...
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials are lobbying for federal economic stimulus funding for two major campus construction projects: a $44 million update to the Great Lakes water research facility and a $50 million integrated science research building. UWM and Wisconsin's other universities, public and private, are among...
When House Republicans look at the $825 billion economic package headed toward a vote this week, they do not see President Obama. To them, the bill personifies Representative David R. Obey, the prickly Wisconsin Democrat who is chairman of the Appropriations Committee and has spent...
An oversight by the city of Madison's personnel office is why Social Security numbers of 300 to 500 city employees were stored on a laptop computer stolen Friday from an office in the City-County Building. The laptop was found about two blocks from the City-County Building...
The "capital crunch" and the recession are severely restricting U.S. hospitals in obtaining funds to upgrade their facilities and invest in new clinical and information technologies, according to the American Hospital Association. In a conference call with reporters, AHA President and CEO Richard Umbdenstock said hospitals...
A recent WTN article titled “TomoTherapy competitor Varian slashes 320 jobs” misidentified the company that made the workforce reductions. The company that cut jobs is not Varian Medical Systems, a competitor of TomoTherapy that makes radiation oncology equipment, but Varian Inc., a maker of scientific instruments. Varian...
Many companies don't understand the true value of their data and networks to hackers and thieves. Following the compromise of 100 million credit card records, solution providers should double-check their clients' security posture. The Jan. 20 announcement by Heartland Payment Systems that a security breach left...
Stocks took a tumble yesterday on new economic data that did little to ease investors' concerns about the housing and job markets, and on signs that tech giants such as Intel and Microsoft are not immune to the recession. Growing expectations for quick passage of a...
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it is cutting 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, a sign of how badly even the biggest and richest companies are being stung by the recession. The announced layoffs appear to be a first for Microsoft, which was founded in 1975,...