Author: WTN News

Would you like to know what Cisco is up to lately? Network World's Zeus Kerravala gives us a quick update, straight from Chuck Robbins. At Cisco Live earlier this month, CEO Chuck Robbins outlined Cisco's refocus on the network. That's after years of branching out into...

As many of our readers know by now, blockchain is an architecture that allows users to conduct transactions with each other and create an unchangeable, secure record of those transactions. As such, it has attracted an enormous amount of interest by technologists in finance, healthcare,...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is looking at the possibility of using today's distributed ledger technology to bring speed, security and other efficiencies to monitoring swap transactions in what is called “Swaps Regulation 2.0.”  The current consideration envisions the CFTC as a supervisory node in a...

CoinDesk reports that "Four of the world's largest carmakers have joined tech providers and startups to form the biggest-ever consortium focused on applying blockchain tech in the automotive sector." The consortium that connects them is the recently launched Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI). MOBI's goal...

According to the 2018 IT Career Outlook report from SpiceworksIT, as many as one-third of IT workers will look for a new job in 2018.  The reasons why they might look for a change differ between age groups, from millennials to Gen Xers and baby boomers. SpiceworksIT surveyed...

Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council writes: "The startling rise of social media in less than 15 years has changed how people live, work and play – largely for the better, but also in ways that have corrosive effects." He notes, that those...