With AT&T looking at buying BellSouth for $67 billion, we are truly doing a revestiture of the old Bell system and putting it back together. In fact, this won't be the old Bell system but a nouveau Bell system that doesn't have the depth of...
Madison, Wis. — In other circumstances, it might not seem unusual for a procurement committee to choose Oracle's PeopleSoft software for human resources and payroll systems, but in the wake of a cancelled Oracle e-mail implementation two weeks ago the state Department of Administration was...
The focus of Fusion2006 was to make information technology work for businesses, and judging by the advice that presenters delivered, private-sector CIOs would be well advised to avoid the temptations presented by new technology....
As Yahoo and AOL begin charging marketers to reach the inboxes of their subscribers, it's time to consider the value of a customer's inbox. One cent? 1/4 cent? The right inbox? Priceless....
Madison, Wis. — Tech publication SearchCIO picked up Alliant Energy CEO Bill Harvey's comments at Fusion2006 CEO-CIO Symposium last week. ...
Madison, Wis. — Credit unions could take better advantage of available technology for identity management, says a study released by the UW E-Business Consortium....
It has all the makings of a Hollywood hit… a mysterious drug company...
I often advise companies about to release software to the market to suspend their expectations and prepare to let the market tell them how their application will be used and be open to the programmatic and marketing adaptations needed to improve upon those unanticipated applications....
Madison, Wis. — Can a Mac really be hacked in just 30 minutes? Not according to a 38-hour test by a University of Wisconsin-Madison systems engineer, who criticized recent media reports for sensationalism....
Madison, Wis. — A downtown wireless network that will cover the area around the Capitol is almost ready, Cisco Systems said on Tuesday....