A dinner this week on women in IT focused on midlevel women in technology and their challenges in getting ahead, given their frequently high family responsibilities and their own perceptions (realities?) of what advancing really demands. The program, featuring Telle Whitney, president and CEO of...
Back in 1986, when Bill Gates was still making sales calls, he pitched my group at First Boston on why we should bet the farm on Windows. Despite the risk involved, we gave his fledgling startup the deal. This wasn’t because of his financial backers...
Venture capitalists are generally not thought of with great affection by most entrepreneurs, which should be no surprise given that venture capitalists turn entrepreneurs away far more often than they let open their checkbooks for them, and have at best ambiguous relationships with most of...
It was a bad idea from the start, but even as bad ideas go, this one went horribly wrong. A 38-year-old Avon Lake, Ohio, man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he allegedly meant to install on the computer of a woman...
Stemina Biomarker Discovery and California Stem Cell collaborate to validate effectiveness of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte progenitors for use in predictive toxicology. They've concluded that the study using CSC’s 96-well CardioPlate containing high purity human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived cardiomyocyte progenitor cells, has demonstrated...
How biotechnology companies can thrive in the difficult economic conditions and prepare themselves for the unprecedented opportunity of the coming decade is the theme of the Biotechnology Vision Summit 2009. The summit will explore how companies can meet the challenges of the current economy and...
Perceptral, a Racine, Wis.-based has received $70,000 from the U.S. Army to engage in a six-month study to prove the feasibility of applying its proprietary methods of sound segmentation and speech compression to the reconstruction of degraded digital sound transmissions from the devices that the...
Merge Healthcare has released FusionWeb, a zero-client software platform that enables secure Web access for the real-time exchange of patient information, procedure reports and digital images. The first FusionWeb application developed specifically for referring clinicians gives radiology providers of any size a cost-effective means of...
If you are still talking about less than gigabit speeds to end users for any networks that have yet to be implemented, you are way behind the times. After attending 4G WORLD in Chicago this week and listening to those in strategic positions talking about WiMAX...
The newest classes and equipment at Chippewa Valley Technical College are focused on an old technology gaining prominence for homeowners looking to cut their energy bills. Two classes on renewable heating and cooling technologies and installation of geothermal systems at the college's Clairemont campus are focused...