ConjuGon was awarded a phase II small-business innovation research grant from the National Science Foundation to continue work on an antibacterial treatment. The funding complements the $100,000 phase I grant the company received last year for the same technology....
People are more skeptical of advertising now than ever before, experts at AD:TECH Chicago agreed, and the growing presence of the Internet allows them to quickly sink a product or company's reputation. The result? More power in the hands of customers,...
GenTel, a private spin-off from the Universty of Wisconsin, develops and manufactures biochips composed of many tiny drops of chemicals atop surfaces no larger than a fingernail. These chips can be used to perform a large number of tests without requiring a large number...
In an effort to speed up research on disease-causing pathogens, including ones that could be used as biological weapons, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will team with an information technology company, SRA International, Inc., to build an online, publicly accessible...
This week, Byron Glick examines the dance between IT shops and the organizations they work for. By exorcizing mismatches, miscommunications and unequal shares of power within a business, both partners in the dance can share control and succeed....
Little I write about these days stirs as much feedback as my columns on the emerging social media market, the convergence of blog tools, search, social networks, and syndication technologies....
CHICAGO – Developing new products is one way businesses can create organic growth (or growth other than by acquisition). The legendary expert in new product development (NPD) is Rubbermaid, which launches a new product every day. ...
Police on Segways, people who talk loudly on cell phones, anyone who talks about themself in the third person, and others absorbed in serious business could take a hint from these six warning signs....
BROOKFIELD, Wis.— Fiserv Imagesoft, a unit of Fiserv, Inc., has developed a new disaster recovery services offering for its clients that have licensed the Nautilus image-enabled enterprise content management suite....
WAUKESHA, Wis. – Foreway, a manager of integrated logistics, is implementing a suite of integrated supply chain execution solutions from RedPrairie, a Waukesha-based provider of supply chain execution solutions....