Category: Business/Technology

Beginning in March, UW-Madison will offer electronic ID scanners and free training to select downtown bars and liquor stores in an effort to crack down on underage drinking and the use of fake IDs.

Madison, Wis. – Greater Madison biotechnology executives should stop worrying too much about raising capital and focus on mastering a new biotech business model, according to life science venture investor G. Steven Burrill.

Burrill, founder of Burrill & Co. in San Francisco, is considered a pioneer in the world of biotechnology investing. The Madison native returned to his alma mater Thursday to deliver a lecture in the Microbial Science Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

University officials said high profile 2008 presidential campaign stops at UW-Madison this week have been successful, but required much behind-the-scenes preparation.

Four years after the University of Wisconsin initially conceived renovating Union South, the university announced Thursday it has finally hired the architects for the project.

DICK ZILLMAN doesn’t like winter, which is odd when you consider the role played in his considerable success by the two snowiest winters in Madison history.

This winter — later this month — Zillman will receive the Madison Advertising Federation’s Silver Medal Award for career achievement. It’s a fitting tribute to one of Madison’s more creative and enduring advertising minds.

It was another brutal winter that helped put him on the map.

A popular Intel computer chip that is at the heart of millions of computers infringes on patented technology invented at UW-Madison, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation claims in a lawsuit against the microprocessor giant.

Madison and Marcus Corp. are discussing a much-desired Downtown hotel — perhaps the largest in the city — to serve Monona Terrace and other needs.

Marcus, which opened the 14-story, 236-room Hilton Madison at 9 E. Wilson St. adjacent to Monona Terrace in early 2001, has first option to build across the street on a parking lot behind the landmark Madison Municipal Building or the adjacent Government East parking ramp site.

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed a lawsuit alleging patent infringement against computer giant Intel Corp.

The lawsuit filed by WARF on Tuesday in federal court in Madison charges that Intel’s CoreTM 2 Duo microprocessor is infringing on a UW-Madison invention that significantly improves the efficiency and speed of computer processing.

Intel has aggressively marketed the benefits of this invention as a feature of its Core 2 technology, WARF said in a news release.

Although NeuWave looks like an embryonic company at first glance, the reality is the two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors who founded it invested about $280,000 of their own money and landed a federal grant to build a “very robust” prototype and conduct more than 100 animal trials,

Late this spring The Capital Times will dramatically enhance its Internet site as well as alter its print frequency from six days to two days per week to address changing habits of afternoon newspaper readers, company executives announced Thursday.

Publisher Clayton Frink said the newspaper’s online site, captimes.com, will feature increased volume, depth and timeliness of news, opinion and other information. He said the printed edition of the newspaper will expand its distribution by about five times and switch from six-day publication to two weekly tabloid-size editions.

“The Capital Times has been a progressive media voice in Madison for 90 years, and this move allows us to preserve that legacy and, in fact, reach far more people than ever before,” Frink said.

Intel Corp.s popular Core 2 Duo processor, the brain of many of todays personal computers, includes technology created by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, according to a federal lawsuit accusing Intel of patent infringement.

he termination of New Era Cap Co.â??s licensing contract with UW-Madison Friday means the companyâ??s manufactured apparel with the universityâ??s logo must be disposed of within 60 days.

New Era Cap Company responded Monday to allegations of human rights abuses at its plant in Mobile, Ala., in the wake of University of Wisconsin severing its licensing contract with the hat manufacturer.

Following the sports merchandise companyâ??s repeated incompliance with workersâ?? rights inspectors, UW-Madison decided Friday to terminate its licensing contract with New Era Cap Company.

UW-Madison computer scientist Paul Barford doesn ‘t want to be alarmist, but he thinks you could be in danger of being attacked — by a botnet.

Botnets (a term combining “robot ” and the “Net “) are the biggest and baddest Internet villains out there these days, he said, combining other threats that have been around for years — worms, viruses, spyware, and so on.

In 2000, when John Neis, co-founder of Madison, Wis.-based Venture Investors, tried to convince venture capitalists on the West and East Coasts to fund TomoTherapy, a Wisconsin cancer-radiation company he had seeded, they weren’t interested. “It was not in the comfort zone for them,” he says. So he returned to Wisconsin and pulled together a group of Midwestern investors.

His firm culls eight states for deals; most come from research done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan.