MENOMONIE †A test of the University of Wisconsin-Stout e-mail system Thursday showed that it could be an effective tool in the event of a crisis on campus that required immediate notification of faculty, staff and students, officials said Friday.
The Columbus Foundation has launched an online networking tool to connect people with nonprofits in central Ohio. PowerPhilanthopy offers potential donors an online database of more than 340 central Ohio nonprofits.
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "After a six-month beta period, Canonical Ltd. is adding management muscle to Ubuntu Linux servers and desktops in the form of its Landscape systems management tool".
Scientists can determine where a person has lived based on the varied chemicals in drinking water across the country -- variations that show up in hair. Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
Feb. 29, 2008 (SmartPros) RedRover Software Inc., a provider of productivity tools for spreadsheet quality control, announced the release of RedRover Audit, a spreadsheet auditing tool that operates as a complement to Microsoft Excel.
The research groups of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Helsinki and the University of California in San Diego have discovered a gene that is centrally involved in the regulation of carbon dioxide uptake for photosynthesis and water evaporation in plants. The discovery can aid the development of drought-tolerant crops.
SEBRING †Sammie Lower loves swinging new softball bats. The Sebring second baseman used a new bat in her first plate appearance on Friday night to hit a grand slam and lift the Sebring softball team over Palmetto, 7-1.
Developers rush out 'urgent' patch. WordPress developers have released an "urgent" security update to the widely used blog publishing tool to address a flaw that could allow unauthorised users to edit other users' blog posts.