Author: WTN News

MOUNT PLEASANT, WI - Police Officer Jon Cvengros has cut the amount of time he spends conducting traffic stops in half. The Mount Pleasant officer said he can finish a single-citation traffic stop in about five or six minutes and spends even less time writing municipal...

The U.S. government plans to hire more than 11,500 IT professionals over the next three years, according to a survey of federal agencies. The actual number of new hires may be much more than that, as the survey by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service is...

Smart, savvy and very possibly soon-to-be-rich women from across the county will descend on Madison at the end of September in a reality show you won't see on television. Springboard Enterprises, an organization that pairs women-led technology companies with investors, will hold a two day seminar...

In the 1870s the federal government, the state government, the railroad companies and a handful of land prospectors were hammering out deals that would open up the Northwoods timber resources to the national marketplace by laying a system of railroad tracks. Today a similar coalition of...

People love to quibble over cloud computing definitions, so let's lay this one out: This article's about infrastructure as a service, where companies rent virtual servers as needed for a variety of uses. Here, we're digging into gritty practicalities not often discussed, including pricing and...

The Scientist magazine released results today on the most current salary information in the life sciences. Over 4,700 professional life scientists in the United States reported their salaries, providing an insightful window on their job outlook based on gender, race, region and specialty. The...

For Det Ansinn, server capacity is critical. Last December, his 10-person software company, BrickSimple, released a popular application called Xbox Live Friends. that lets people use their phones to play Xbox games with each other and shows which other players are online. Requests to log...