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Wednesday is Data Privacy Day, notes columnist and blogger Joe Campana, and it's a perfect time to understand just how vulnerable we are to identity theft and other forms of cyber crime. In this edition of Privacy Diary, also the name of Campana's blog, he...

The seemingly endless tale of information technology workforce woes, highlighted by Microsoft Corp.'s recent decision to eliminate 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, apparently will not impact the company's advanced research lab in Madison. David DeWitt, the retired University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor...

Stamford, Conn. - Gartner, Inc. has identified eight mobile technologies that will evolve significantly through 2010, impacting short-term mobile strategies and policies. “All mobile strategies embed assumptions about technology evolution so it's important to identify the technologies that will evolve quickly in the life span of...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials are lobbying for federal economic stimulus funding for two major campus construction projects: a $44 million update to the Great Lakes water research facility and a $50 million integrated science research building. UWM and Wisconsin's other universities, public and private, are among...

The Board of Directors of MyWeather, a Madison-based provider of digital weather and traffic content, has appointed Madison native Christopher Kelly as its new company president. Kelly, a graduate of both Washington University and The Wharton School, will lead the company's new direct-to-consumer initiatives. ...

American businesses lose an estimated $150 billion annually in trade secret theft, and most of the losses occur among small and mid-sized businesses that are unaware of steps that can be taken to protect trade secrets, according to Madison attorney Sharon Mollman Elliott. In this...