Author: WTN News

Over the last year or so, we've covered various layoffs at IBM, and we've tried to ferret out IBM's byzantine resource shuffling, and a lot of that coverage and reader commentary points out the global nature of IBM's business and concern for American jobs. Well,...

Business intelligence software may have been around for several decades, but it remains an esoteric niche in most companies, according to an analyst. Unfriendly corporate cultures, not the BI tools or apps themselves, are preventing BI from becoming pervasive. "The technology has been around for a long...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Lucigen $750,000 to be used over two years to develop enzymes and methods for nucleic acid sequencing. This work may lead to faster and less expensive methods of sequencing DNA, which is important in the emerging field of...

Corporate information technology departments are prioritizing the wrong threats to their computer systems, focusing on old problems and leaving their companies open to a raft of new cyberattacks aiming at private customer and corporate information. That is the finding of a new biannual report from the...

The Obama Administration committed itself Tuesday to reducing federal computing costs by pursuing cloud computing, but its first steps appear tentative. The administration launched Apps.gov as a storefront where federal agencies may go to purchase on-demand applications from private vendors. In its first iteration, federal computing...

After hunkering down for some time and receiving some initial responses from the flurry of grant applications that were submitted in the Spring of this year, many Midwest early stage technology companies are once again beginning to consider the private capital markets for funding. In...

The top U.S. intelligence official said counterintelligence and cybersecurity would be given new emphasis under a four-year strategic plan he unveiled Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told reporters that although combating extremism, issuing warnings, countering weapons proliferation and supporting military operations overseas remain...

Kathy Collins has been appointed the WEN Regional Director in Madison. Collins has worked with hundreds of companies over the past ten years as the technology and financial development manager in the Commerce Division of Business Development. As WEN regional director, Collins will work...

On Tuesday, Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, unveiled Apps.Gov, a Web site where federal agencies will able to buy so-called cloud computing applications and services that have been approved by the government to replace more costly and cumbersome computing services at their own...

Four advanced pieces of scientific laboratory equipment worth approximately $1 million was donated by the private WiCell Research Institute. WiCell made the gifts as part of its ongoing efforts to support stem cell research on campus and the work of the university's Stem Cell...