Most corporations, when giving birth to a new product, behave just like parents jumping in frenzy in a maternity ward. This typical hysterical hoopla of the incubation wing is often replaced by a subtler, cubicle behavior and at times becomes a subdued Dilbertish style revolution....
People are more skeptical of advertising now than ever before, experts at AD:TECH Chicago agreed, and the growing presence of the Internet allows them to quickly sink a product or company's reputation. The result? More power in the hands of customers,...
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched a new service to help the Wisconsin business community keep abreast of university happenings. ...
Some of the first data from a new orbiting infrared telescope are revealing that the Milky Way - and by analogy galaxies in general - is making new stars at a much more prolific pace than astronomers imagined....
MILWAUKEE – The Medical College of Wisconsin is reuniting the commissioners, authors and consultants of the Belmont Report, a historical document that laid the ethical foundation for human research in the United States. For the first time since the report’s completion in 1979, the “Belmonters”...
MADISON – M. Mitchell Waldrop has put his Ph.D. in theoretical physics to use —not in research, but as a journalist and now as a public affairs officer for the National Science Foundation....
MADISON - Working to help cell-phone users take advantage of the limitless minutes now included in many calling plans, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a device that can significantly improve the quality of the transmitted signal on even less battery power....
MADISON - An answer to the long-standing riddle of whether the Earth's ice ages occurred simultaneously in both the Southern and Northern hemispheres is emerging from the glacial deposits found in the high desert east of the Andes....
Effective April 14, 2004, the privacy rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) generally apply to all “health plans,” including “small” plans with annual receipts under $5,000,000....
MADISON - The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill Friday designed to promote capital investment and technological entrepreneurship by means of tax credits, grants and loans. The legislation, SB 261, was only one of two venture capital-oriented bills co-authored by Sen. Ted...