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Do we really need workers from overseas, or do we need to re-employ those that have lost IT and tech jobs in the last five years?” asks columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he talks about the salary-slicing impact of luring H-1B...

In today's business climate, companies must understand how technology may evolve when entering into business arrangements with other parties, according to IP Online columnist Deb Wilcox. The recent dispute involving two cultural icons, Apple Computer and Apple Corps, the Beatle's record company, is a case...

Embryonic stem cell legislation is back on the Congressional agenda as the Senate debates the merits of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007. In a letter to senators, Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle urged passage of the legislation, which has already passed the House...

John Gee, a technology executive with a background in the Bay Area technology industry, is the new president and CEO of the Information Technology Association of Wisconsin. He succeeds William C. Mortimore, who has been serving in an interim capacity....

Judy Lemke, executive vice president and CIO for the Green Bay-based Schneider National, doesn't have to worry much about establishing boardroom credibility. Lemke, who was recruited by Schneider after she had retired in the Twin Cities, came to the company with boardroom "cred," and now...

The technology industry in Dane County saw its largest single-year job increase in recent years, and its ranks grew to 510 businesses, according to the 2007 Greater Madison Area Directory of High-Tech Companies. The annual directory lists technology businesses in 12 industry clusters, and shows...

Just by looking at the numbers, the vast potential of the Indian market should get the attention of every American state that wants to engage in foreign trade. Yer Biotech Blues columnist Michael Rosen recently took a trip to India with an Illinois trade delegation,...

If the powers that be were seeking a blunt spokesman for the next chairman of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, they hit the jackpot with John Wade, VP/CIO, Saint Luke's Health System of Kansas City. Not one to mince words, Wade, the chair-elect of...

The man who led Fiserv from a small private company to a multi-billion dollar corporation will be inducted this month into the Wisconsin Business Hall of Fame. Leslie Muma, Fiserv's president and chief operating officer from 1984 to 1999, will join three other new inductees....