Author: WTN News

Madison software executive Jan Eddy, who has battled personal health and business problems in recent years, will receive the 2007 “Seize the Day” award from the Wisconsin Technology Council. Eddy will be presented the award and will speak June 13 during the annual Wisconsin Entrepreneur's...

A bill that would trade Wisconsin's city-by-city regulation of the cable television industry for statewide video franchises has stalled in the State Senate, mostly due to political inertia, according to columnist Tom Still. In this presentation of Inside Wisconsin, he notes that if Wisconsin is...

Marty Preizler, president and CEO of Physicians Plus, a Madison-based health maintenance organization, is not an uninterested bystander in the healthcare industry's drive to greater information technology adoption. In Part I of a recent interview with WTN, he explains how Physicians Plus has promoted greater...

The United States is still a dominant player in global biotech sales, R&D, publicly traded companies, and other parameters, but the rest of the world is catching up. In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, columnist Michael Rosen outlines this and other findings from the...

Businesses across Wisconsin have hundreds of millions of dollars at stake in a pending Wisconsin Supreme Court case pitting Menasha Corp. against the state Department of Revenue. Menasha Corp. claims it was improperly charged sales taxes on modified software, which under state law is not...

Peter Logothetis believes a CIO's place is in the executive suite, especially if the organization expects its top technologist to experience success. Logothetis, the senior vice president and CIO of QBE Regional Insurance, which includes Madison's General Casualty Insurance, reports directly to the CEO and...

Corporate Social Responsibility is a hot concept that many corporations around the world are seeking to demonstrate, but there are fundamental questions raised by CSR, according to columnist Tony DiRomualdo. In this edition of Next Generation Workplace, he examines three contrasting views on the societal...

The state's dismal record on information technology implementations has spilled over into budget deliberations. Two IT projects, a data center and a business systems integration, failed to receive the necessary votes for additional funding. The votes were split along partisan lines - Democrats for and...

The cell phone has emerged as an always-on communication tool for more than 80 percent of the nation's population, and a Fox Valley wireless carrier is part of making it a medium for delivering emergency alerts. Einstein Wireless has launched a broadcast system that will...