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New Sales Configuration Tool Helps Compress the Quote-to-Cash Cycle and Increase Channel Efficiency Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 1, 2005 -- Webcom, Inc., a leader in simplified quote-to-order enablement for the selling of complex products and services, is pleased to announce that Motion Computing® has deployed the Webcom WebSource CPQ solution to simplify its quote-to-cash process. Motion is a...

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, www.uwsp.edu/news Nov. 2, 2005 Laura Manthe, director of the Oneida Environmental Resource Board, will speak on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus Tuesday, Nov. 8, as part of the acclaimed GEM Critical Issues International Seminar Series. Manthe is the second of six...

CONTACT: Joyce Rubenstein 414-273-2100 New Site Developed to Share News, Perspectives with Clients (Milwaukee) – Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek Government Affairs LLC, a full-service, bi-partisan government affairs firm, today unveiled a complete website redesign that features news and perspectives on issues affecting the firm’s clients at the local, state and federal levels. The new site can be accessed at www.whdga.com. WHD Government Affairs –...

Compass Coffeehouse Contact: Elizabeth or Stephen Kastner 920.473.4028 CompassCoffee.com Conspiracy theorists question 9-11 in "Confronting the Evidence" FISH CREEK, WI - Halloween may be over but that doesn't mean you need to wait another year to release your creative costuming spirit. Liz and Steve Kastner invite you to help launch the off-season's Saturday Cinema Series with a Tinfoil Hat Party at the Compass Coffeehouse...

Contact: (262) 532-2440 or send an e-mail to milwaukeepressclub@teamwi.com The public is invited to hear Midwest Air Group Inc. chairman and chief executive officer Timothy Hoeksema outline his plans to revive the company at a Milwaukee Press Club Newsmaker Press Conference to be held Wednesday, Nov. 9. The troubled airline industry has been grounded by steep discount...

Contact: Tiffani Clements (202) 401-0035 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration and U.S. General Services Administration’s Integrated Acquisition Environment Program Management Office today announced a new system to streamline reporting of small business subcontracting activity on large federal prime contracts. As part of the President’s Management Agenda for Electronic Government to...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Wisconsin’s equipment manufacturing sector is performing well – as indicated by third quarter earnings reports - and should lead Wisconsin’s economy in 2006, economists said recently. “It’s not so much sales to consumers as it is sales of equipment to other businesses that is driving this – and Wisconsin’s economy is disproportionately based on the machinery...

By Gregg Hoffmann COON VALLEY – Chris Jackson has seen his Borah cycle jerseys and shorts on cyclists riding on the top of the hills of southwest Wisconsin, the Rockies and other lofty places. But, he never saw it in a loftier place – from a political standpoint – than last August when President George W. Bush and famed cyclist Lance...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – By a 2-0 vote Monday, the state’s Public Service Commission decided to begin phasing out the monthly rate cap on SBC’s basic local phone service. SBC serves the majority of the state and is mainly based in urban and suburban areas. The PSC-controlled basic rate now stands at $8.20 a month for a line, plus...