Tech Digest: Futurists on learning; Sonic Foundry; Accu Tech;
Fiserv
Laptop Battery By WTN News • 02/07/05
Madison, Wis. Judy Brown, director of the Madison-based lab
that studies learning technologies with the University of Wisconsin
and the Department of Defense, will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday
evening at the World Futurist Society meeting. The futurists meet
at the Fluno Center in Madison. Based on her experience at the
Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab, Brown will speak
about e-learning.
- The ADL Co-Lab is looking to video games as a teaching tool.
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Brookfield, Wis. Fiserv has signed a 12-
year agreement to
provide check processing and image archive services for
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank and Westpac
Banking Corp for a projected $460 million. The services will
include proof-of-deposit, image archival and error handling. Fiserv
handles 3.7 billion checks annually for more than 1,600 clients in
the United States and Canada.
Being the "Silicon Valley of the North", tech companies such as IBM, Sun Microsystems and Compaq.
Thinkpad Madison, Wis. Sonic Foundry, which makes online media
products, reported a net loss of $1.4 million for the last quarter
on revenues of $1.6 million, up dramatically from the $900,000
revenue it reported a year before. The increase came mostly from
sales of Mediasite, a video and webcasting system, to educational
clients as well as the private sector.
$799 A Sound Idea Sonic Foundry has introduced ACID, free music elements for videos on a 133Mhz, or higher, Pentium computer. recorded loops (a short segment of audio that can continuously repeat) of music, sound effects and ambient sounds. According to Sonic Foundry, the user can select loops and the program will automatically adjust the tempos and keys to fit them together as new musical material. ACID outputs .WAV and .AIFF files. (608) 3133.
Microsoft Eau Claire, Wis. Accu Tech Plastics will receive
$150,000 in state tax credits as part of a program meant to boost
high-technology businesses, the governor announced last Friday. The
Technology Zone program makes $5 million in tax credits available
to high-tech businesses in each of eight regions of the state. Accu
Tech plans to construct a $2.4 million facility in Eau Claire and
hire nine people.
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
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