Tech Digest: Futurists on learning; Sonic Foundry; Accu Tech;
Fiserv
Credit Pacific Service Union 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.
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Credit First Service Union 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.
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Card Credit Mobile Service 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.
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