Commentary

Poor Palm. As if it’s not already living in the long shadow of Apple, a company that long-ago abandoned the handheld market yet still manages to dance in the spotlight of the mobile device market, Palm picked Oct. 12 to announce what could well be...

If my mom designed a computer, it would say please and thank you. It would wake up before I do and be ready for the day and have my day organized when I logged on. Though my mom’s well into her senior years, she’s still...

Funny thing about technology assimilation. It almost never occurs prior to the actual rollout of new technology. Users will invent uses we never imagined or intended for our technology creations. So, technology almost never arrives in its final form. ...

A funny thing happened on the way to pick up a pizza the other night. I ran into Doug Rowan, who I’d first met when he was CEO of Corbis, the massive digital image library. Doug is now the CEO of ZoomAlbum,...

It is happening right now. Media executives, mostly in denial, are shunning the subject. Smart ones are coming up with well-branded 24/7 web-based news sites and general broadcasts. This is a revolution, and the entire model is about to be changed....

On October 11, 2005, both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") and the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General ("OIG") published separate, but parallel, proposed rules to advance the goal of widespread adoption of electronic health records technologies by hospitals, physicians,...

A new report suggests Wisconsin is slowly making progress when it comes to building a technology-based economy, as judged by indicators such as producing patents, investing in private research and development, and creating high-tech jobs. The natural question: Why are we improving?...

Have you noticed recently the earnest discussions about a seemingly inalienable right to blog on company time and company topics? OK, maybe that overstates the argument a little bit, but the case in which Apple fired a couple of employees for their blogging activities on...

The FDA sees radio frequency identification (RFID) technology as critical for the long-term safety and integrity of the U.S. drug supply. RFID allows pharmaceutical packages to be tracked, traced and authenticated throughout the chain of distribution from manufacturer to pharmacy. ...