City Dictionary, a Madison Web site that provides a user-guided tour of individual cities' colloquialisms, won the top prize today at the G. Stephen Burrill Business Plan Competition. A record 18 business plans were presented by 30 student entrepreneurs at the 11th annual contest, held...
Prodesse Inc. has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell ProGastro Cd, a diagnostic tool used to detect toxic strains of the bacterial infection colostridium difficile, or c. difficile, a source of 500,000 U.S. infections anually. This tool can produce a...
While extra employer scrutiny could slow your employment search, job seekers and many employed workers might want to take steps to avoid the fate of employees whose companies went under and lost both jobs and retirement savings when their companies unraveled, writes James E. Challenger....
Employing sophisticated tools such as memory-scraping malware and unique packet sniffers, organized crime led a record assault on databases in 2008, resulting in more electronic records being compromised last year than the previous four years combined. Organized crime successfully cranked up its data breaching efforts...
Google Health, Google's health care IT solution, has been taken to task by physicians who say the billing information it uses for some patients' electronic medical records can give an inaccurate picture of their health conditions. Since rolling out in Feb. 2008, Google Health has...
Off-the-shelf Web 2.0 mashup software from JackBe aids decisions and keeps troops safe. To make the right decision, it's essential to have the right information at the right time. But just what information is needed, when and in relation to what other information is a subtle...
Mention Hollywood and politics in the same sentence and most people envision liberal screen stars lining up on Rodeo Drive to save a whale, rescue a polar bear or hug a Democrat. That stereotype is flipped in Wisconsin these days, where a conservative Republican state senator...
I am delighted to launch the Fusion Healthcare Blog http://mikeklein.fusionhealthcare.com as a forum for health information technology buyers, users, integrators,investors and developers. We want you to be part of the discussion This blog will co-exist with WTN Media's Digital Healthcare Conferences. The next event...
Wisconsin’s growing entertainment software industry will be showcased from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Thursday at Madison's Raven Software. The Game On! event is part of an effort to save the state's one-year-old film incentive program by a coalition including Film Wisconsin, Arts Wisconsin and...
The G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition will be held this Friday. The daylong event, which begins with a talk by Burrill & Co. CEO Steve Burrill at 7:30 a.m., is free and open to the public. The contest offers students a chance to compete...