The SBIR/STTR Program Manager for the EPA will be in Portland, March 22, 2005 to visit with interested entrepreneurs, researchers and businesses about R&D opportunities with the agency. The meeting will take place at Stoel Rives, 900 SW Fifth Ave, Suite 2600 from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm.

For more information contact: oregon.innovation@state.or.us

ViewPlus sees big potential in adding ink to embosser that prints for the blind

By BENNETT HALL
Gazette-Times business editor

With barely a week to go before the company's new product is scheduled to ship, the manufacturing department is smack in the middle of moving.

The old fabrication area is already cleared out, but the new one is still being set up. Employees are ferrying parts and equipment from one building to another on handcarts, and somebody dropped one of the finished units, cracking the housing.

Not that anyone seems concerned about all this chaos — that's just the price of success for ViewPlus Technologies.

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http://www.gtconnect.com/articles/2005/02/06/news/community/local02.txt

Company representatives refuse to provide specifics on potential cuts

By SEAN WOLFE and BENNETT HALL
Corvallis Gazette-Times

CORVALLIS — The watchword is "transformation."

That's Hewlett-Packard's term for how it will shift its operations to better meet increasing competition and declining growth rate in revenues. The strategy is to emphasize digital photography and home entertainment for the consumer market and push color printing for businesses.

What that will mean for headcounts at HP's sprawling Corvallis campus remains unclear, but Hewlett-Packard employees and community leaders say they've been told to expect big changes.

From the New York Times

Hewlett-Packard's Chief Forced Out, Ending Rocky Tenure
By GARY RIVLIN and MARK GLASSMAN

Published: February 9, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 9 - Carleton S. Fiorina, perhaps the most powerful woman in corporate America, resigned as the chief executive of the giant computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard, the company announced today.

The company's board called for Ms. Fiorina's resignation on Tuesday after she and directors disagreed on how to carry out Hewlett's corporate strategy.

The resignation brings to a close a rocky tenure for Ms. Fiorina, who oversaw Hewlett's controversial acquisition of the Compaq Computer in 2002. Her charisma and aggressive, top-down leadership style made her a highly visible personality in the consumer electronics industry and the target of some criticism during her five-year stint with the company. Moreover, the Compaq deal failed to bring Hewlett the profits that Ms. Fiorina had forecast.

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