Y&L starts digital unit; first rollout in decade
Young & Laramore, the city’s largest advertising agency, has launched a division focusing on digital and design work.
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Brightpoint adjusts as wireless demand finally cools off
After years of torrid gains in the number of wireless phones it handles, Brightpoint has had two consecutive comparable-quarter
declines.
YouTube isn’t the only place to watch, share videos
Try out Vimeo (www.vimeo. com) and blip.tv as alternatives to YouTube.
When is it time to chuck old computer equipment?
If a computer-related device still works without any tinkering, I’m inclined to keep it.
Creative Street scores with online education
The rising popularity of online education is ringing up sales for a local firm better known for video production.
Rolls-Royce unveils engine
Rolls-Royce is courting customers for its RR500TS helicopter engine, unveiled recently at Heli-Expo in Anaheim, Calif.
CAFE standards not as effective as gasoline tax
The Obama administration recently reversed a Bush-era policy that prevented states from imposing some of their own environmental policies with respect to corporate average fuel efficiency, or CAFE, standards.
Company banks on targeted texting
Steven Dickerson realized the potential for mobile advertisements when he saw his daughter texting.
Privacy, expense are concerns for RFID technology
The vast amounts of personal information capable of being stored through RFID raises privacy concerns. And the cost is significantly greater than standard bar codes.
Manufacturers see income opportunities with Defense contracts
Facing anemic demand and slumping sales, manufacturers are increasingly attempting to tap the U.S. Department of Defense for contracting opportunities.
Community Health touts integrated computer system
Community Health Network has spent three years developing a computer interface that allows doctors and nurses to view all
information and records on a patient in one viewing program.
GM workers hesitate to bite at buyout bait
GM workers must decide by March 24 whether to take a buyout, but the lack of jobs due to the recession coupled with the cost of health care makes their decision especially difficult.
Elkhart’s industries could be transformed to focus on energy conservation and environmental improvements
Elkhart’s industries should shift to producing mass transit vehicles and manufactured housing for low-income, high-density neighborhoods.
Advanced energy next focus for economic development
The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership—the parent of the BioCrossroads, TechPoint and Conexus industry cluster initiatives—let it be known last month that there would be a fourth leg to its economic development stool: clean technology.
IRL may delay engine switch
The Indy Racing League is considering delaying adoption of its new engine formula by a year—to 2012—so teams
can afford to make the switch.
Redevelopment plans threaten Gasoline Alley
Business owners along the fabled Gasoline Alley north of Rockville Road think a proposal to close a north-south road linking
them to the front door of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will have devastating effects.
Pitching manufacturing careers a challenge amid slump
The message that Steve Dwyer, recently retired chief operating officer of Rolls-Royce North America, is taking to central
Indiana educators is that they still need to train students for careers in manufacturing.
Union says Navistar foundry closing a surprise
United Auto Workers officials are hoping to find a way to keep open the foundry that has been associated with an east-side engine plant for 70 years, despite Navistar International Corp.'s plans to close both facilities by July 31.
IT not what it was at time of landmark report
A 2000 study has proven to be "remarkably prescient" in identifying information technology as a mainstay of the local economy that would "affect
all industries and all jobs," said Michael J. Hicks, the top economist at Ball State University.
Ball State hopes for gold as students follow profs into new media ventures
Students, commerce and emerging media have moved to the forefront of Ball State’s mission under President Jo Ann Gora, attracting corporate dollars to the university.