Five regional businesses awarded funds to attend the world’s largest biotechnology convention Madison Region - Thrive, the economic development enterprise for the eight-county Madison Region, has designated five Madison Region companies for awards in its pilot BIO Partnering Grant program. Grants totaling $9,000 will enable...
Legislation that would create a national cyber security czar reporting directly to the White House was introduced April 1 by U.S. Senators John D. Rockefeller (D-WVA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME). The new position would serve as the government's top official on all cyber security matters,...
Until last October, InfraReDx considered itself a symbol of the kind of science-based innovation that creates durable health care industry jobs. Now, InfraReDx represents the perils of the recession for small companies working on promising medical technologies that hospitals and insurers see as experimental. The...
Fidelity National Information Services Inc. will acquire Metavante Technologies Inc. under an agreement announced today. Both company's boards approved an agreement for the stock deal that will combine the financial service firms to create the world's largest provider of comprehensive integrated payment and financial core...
OAK GROVE, LA – West Carroll Memorial Hospital, a 33-bed hospital in northeast Louisiana that is part of a health information exchange project, is rolling out an enterprise-wide electronic medical record. West Carroll Memorial is using Minneapolis-based Healthland's physician practice management application. Financial management and clinical...
Social networking and rich media bring new threats to your data security. A report from MessageLabs, a unit of Symantec, describes several problems cropping up in the Web 2.0 world. * In 2008, criminals moved from email (spam, viruses) to sophisticated web-based...
In a Nov. 2008 survey of employers by the National Association of Colleges & Employers, 27 percent said the job market for the graduating class of 2009 is very good. While that was down from 50 percent a year earlier, it still provides some promise,...
The Aberdeen Group released a report that demonstrates that Best-in-Class companies have successfully merged Business Intelligence (BI) functionality with collaborative techniques in order to produce substantial improvements in customer responsiveness, employee productivity, and business process efficiency. By leveraging a culture of information and other key...
Given that Microsoft issued a patch for the flaw targeted by the Conficker worm and the use of strong passwords can prevent much of the spread, it seems odd that enterprises would be hurt by the worm. But sometimes enterprise security isn't all it's cracked...
A federal court recently held that a company was bound by unfavorable terms in a click-wrap license agreement, even though an employee of the software vendor installed the software and click-accepted the license agreement. Accordingly, the forum selection clause in the license agreement was enforceable,...