President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Venture Investors’ Managing Director Winslow Sargeant, Ph.D. to a key administration post as Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration. Dr. Sargeant is currently Managing Director at Venture Investors LLC, a venture capital firm that is...
The graduating class of 2009 is entering the worst entry-level job market since the dot-com bust with many colleges and universities reporting declines in on-campus recruiting of up to 50 percent. Jobs are hard to come by and competition will most likely come from much...
Big IT projects sometimes go wrong in spectacular ways, with some common themes running through the disaster stories like fault lines. What goes wrong when things go wrong? What follows may not be suitable for younger audiences: post-mortems of several IT projects that turned ugly....
Amazon's S3 cloud storage service has a new option, called AWS Import/Export, for quickly uploading large amounts of information to its datacenters. It uses a well-developed, multimodal content delivery network that can transmit terabytes of data faster than a T-3 leased line....
During the course of a normal business day, Gregg Feinerman likes to send out Twitter updates. He's just like tens of millions of folks around the country. But there's a difference: Feinerman is a Lasik eye surgeon. "All the people working in our office are doing it,...
With billions in stimulus dollars available to help doctors and hospitals digitize their health records, it stands to reason that tech companies want to make spending that money as easy as possible. Several of the players--Allscripts, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel, Intuit, Microsoft, and Nuance Communications--have teamed...
To his frustration, Steven Schwartz often encounters patients who have no idea what each of the pills they've been popping is called. "But usually they can tell you what it looks like," the Georgetown University Medical Center family practitioner said. "They might say it's a blue,...
Before we start raising more taxes in Illinois, we should ask the voters what they want. While many agencies have filed for more funding, this isn’t parallel to the goose that laid the golden egg. There is definitely a grassroots movement of people wanting to...
“Our hope is to increase availability of quality alternative fuels” Manitowoc WI - Located at Bio Blend Fuels in Manitowoc, WI, American Fuel Blending Systems offers its first Bio-Diesel Blending Station. This unit is a portable, above ground and self contained dispensing system that live blends...
New software from I.B.M. can suck up huge volumes of data from many sources and quickly identify correlations within it. The company says it expects the software to be useful in analyzing finance, health care and even space weather. Bo Thidé, a scientist at the Swedish...