Author: WTN News

As unemployment among tech workers increases with the recession, the U.S. government is raising broad questions as part of a federal case over H-1Bs about the connection of visa fraud to the unemployment of IT workers. The government's interest in H-1B fraud-related unemployment turned up in...

High-speed Internet service should be measured in gigabit speeds rather than megabit speeds. Where are the corporate executives and academics who talk about the quest for excellence in lofty speeches who rarely come up with pragmatic solutions and profitability for their organizations?...

From around the globe, the Global CIO 50 -- some of the world's most innovative and dynamic business technology leaders -- are pursuing a range of initiatives that differ greatly from company to company and industry to industry. But for all of their differences, the...

Certain health information privacy provisions in the federal stimulus package amount to a “massive” expansion of HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, according to Milwaukee lawyer and health privacy expert Mark Garsombke. Garsombke outlined the legal and financial implications of these provisions...

The economic stimulus package passed earlier this year will provide a $6.8 billion windfall to the wireless communications industry, projects ABI Research. In a report released Tuesday, ABI says the government will spend $6.8 billion for "wireless communications upgrades and new deployments" over the next two...

At the recent Digital Healthcare Conference 2009 in Madison, several healthcare executives from University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics along with venture capital investor John Byrnes of Mason Wells answered questions and discussed the role that technology will play in improving the quality of health...

Steve Clark compares the promise of the biotech industry with both the financial realities and the production realities. He cites the sobering study done by a professor at Harvard Business School, Gary Pisano, that compares the financial and productivity data for 293 publicly held...

Toni Sikes, an entrepreneur who built the nation’s largest online arts retailer from a warehouse on Madison’s near East Side, will receive the sixth annual “Seize the Day” award at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference. The award, which celebrates entrepreneurial leaders who have been crucial to Wisconsin’s...