Technology continues to reshape our world, but not without offering tough choices to policy makers, according to columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, he addresses recent privacy snafus involving Social Security numbers, the proposed e-scrap law, the plight of the Wisconsin Virtual...
In an attempt to improve its offerings in the area of consumer-driven healthcare payment solutions, Metavante has acquired BenSoft, a San Diego-based provider of solutions for third-party administrators, health plans, and self-administrating employers. Under the terms of the deal, BenSoft's RepayMe product will become part...
The search for a higher quality HPV testing solution continues to be the focus of a patent infringement suit involving Madison's Third Wave Technologies and Digene Corp. Third Wave has lost the latest round of legal outcomes, but still claims an advantage in the wider...
Manpower's Melanie Holmes, an iPod devotee and life-long learner, will draw on her experience in a new blog that addresses the evolving workplace. Holmes, vice president of World of Work Solutions for Manpower, will seek to communicate a keen understanding of the issues and openness...
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's catalyst grant program, modeled on UWM's Research Growth Initiative, will fund three research projects in 2008. A total of $170,000 in catalyst program funds are part of the five-year, $1 million gift to UWM from Rockwell Automation....
If Steve Jobs is right, and everything in life can be summed up in a Beatles or Dylan song, columnist Tom Koulopoulos has a lyrical lament about what we, as technology-enabled people, have accomplished of late. In this edition of the Innovation Zone, and with...
In Part II of our Visions interview with David Wittwer, president and CEO of TDS Telecommunications Corp., he takes on objections to the recently enacted cable franchising bill, and hails a new era of competition that has begun in the cable television industry. That era...
Demographics and other forces that point to an IT labor shortage are pretty well locked in, according to workforce experts. Beginning in 2009, the workforce will stop growing, a trend that will take hold for the next 20 years and challenge the creativity of information...
Fiserv has announced the hiring of Richard Jones as executive vice president and chief information officer. Jones, who will report to the CEO, will have oversight responsibility for global infrastructure, technology governance, and technology resources. ...
Alliance Enterprises of Southeastern Wisconsin has begun construction of a production plant for the research and development of Benelact, a new dairy ingredient that extracts cholesterol from milk. The pilot plant will be headquartered at the Center for Advanced Technology & Innovation, which last year...