Author: WTN News

Does your office building have broadband connectivity, security, and other intelligent amenities? If not, it may be technologically out-of-date, even if it has every other modern amenity, according to columnist James Carlini. ...

The promise of health information technology to bring down costs for all parts of the healthcare system - including employer-sponsored health insurance - remains very real, but low IT adoption rates mean it will take considerably more time. For the time being, employers will have...

The war on flu, particularly the deadly avian flu, took a turn in the right direction with the recent discovery of a new compound at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but the potential drug still faces a long road to approval. The compound may provide the...

U.S. Trailmaps, Inc., a software developer for off-road mapping applications for snowmobilers, all terrain vehicle (ATV) users, hikers, campers, fishermen, and hunters, announced a deal with Kegonsa Capital Partners to develop interactive trails that are downloadable into global positioning system (GPS) units, personal computers and...

Sarbanes-Oxley has been more costly than projected, and has identified more risk within business organizations, but the benefits for reliable financial reporting and investor confidence are undeniable. Still, the challenge is making sure SOX creates more benefits than costs, and according to Guest Columnist Ron...

Prior to a United States Patent and Trademark Office decision to review its controversial stem cell patents, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation predicted such a review would take place. Now, WARF says it will prove the validity of the three patents, which are being challenged...

Increasing the number of graduates in science and mathematics should increase the number of highly skilled workers who enter high-tech fields and address the IT labor shortage. Toward that end, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's math and science departments will receive a $500,000 grant from...

Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company headquartered in Canada and an independent developer of medical software technologies, has released a new version of its digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) toolkit. The MergeCOM-3 enables rapid application development for software companies interested in creating medical...

Johnson Controls, Inc. has partnered with TomTom, a navigation solution provider based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to integrate satellite navigation devices into vehicle electronic systems. Beginning in 2008, drivers should be able to select a point of interest on a touch screen device....

Wisconsin's two nuclear power plants are 30 years old, and if the state is to meet its future energy needs, it should rethink its moratorium on building new plants, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. New biofuels are important, he writes, but they can't...