Author: WTN News

A couple of friends and I recently met for beers at Slattery's and I paid the bill with a USAirways MasterCard from Barclays Bank. So imagine my surprise a couple days later when I got an email message from USAirways bearing the subject line, "How...

Citrix and Xen.org are planning to roll out a strategy for a open-source cloud computing platform based on the Xen virtualization hypervisor. The announcement will come on the first day of VMware’s VMworld show. The Xen Cloud Platform will compete directly with VMware’s vCloud offering,...

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This investment-prospectus lingo has never been more apt for business in general than in this post-financial-meltdown, pre-recovery economy. Yet now more than ever, top executives, corporate directors, and financial markets want no surprises. So it's pretty clear...

Amazon has launched a new endeavor that integrates traditional IT infrastructure with its EC2 cloud service. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows IT to connect to an isolated set of AWS resources to a data center using a VPN connection. Minus all the acronyms, that means...

Matt Storms interviewed Scott Button, Managing Director of Venture Investors, a venture capital firm in Madison, Wisconsin. In this audio podcast of their conversation, Scott elaborates on the stage and industry focus of Venture Investors and their Venture Igniter program. He also describes...

Facebook announced on Thursday that it planned to change the site to give users more privacy and control over their personal information. But the biggest changes may be for the 1 million software developers who create Facebook applications. The changes are in response to an investigation...

Wondering how much the top dog in the IT shop makes? KForce, a technology staffing firm with 41 offices across the U.S., asked its consultants for the going rate for CIO base salaries in various cities. Here's what they say about the western portion of...