Attention gadget guys and girls – this is your time. The shops are loaded with electronic communications gizmos of all kinds this holiday season. Many people either love them or loathe them. I guess I fall into the latter category. ...
While consumer confidence in advertising is at an all-time low their confidence in search engines is growing. Why? Search engines offer consumers what advertising does not: relevance....
Over the last two years of writing this column, I have become aware of a lot of life science companies headquartered or operating in the Midwest. Part of the challenge of this column has been to bring them to the item of my readers....
The mind and body just craves to carry something with a logo, color and stripes, wear anything as long as it’s identifiable, get tattooed with names or razor lines on skinned heads or name babies after brand names....
Turns out John Naisbitt, author of High Tech High Touch, had it right. The higher our culture’s computer skills – to share information, join groups and even date online – the more we need to be in touch: to see the whites of each other’s...
A Wisconsin patent lawyer examines a Supreme Court decision not to save an overturned biotech patent, and recommends taking some care when describing your inventions in patent claims....
Wisconsin manufacturers are relying more and more on offshore operations in the Far East, creating a demand for Asian management talent in numerous fields....
First, the good news: wireless connectivity truly is moving quickly to ubiquity. Traveling across Europe these past two weeks, my daily dose of broadband has been, exclusively, a Wi-Fi connection. I'd venture to say that hotels throughout Europe are more likely to offer broadband wireless...
Let’s say we get it done. We enact and implement all of the great ideas floating around Wisconsin on how to improve our economy. Let’s paint a picture of what that economy will look like in the year 2020....
Arusha, Tanzania — Even if former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson skips a second term in the Bush administration, his legacy at the Department of Health of Human Services will include some worthy accomplishments: the first remaking of Medicare since 1965; keeping human embryonic stem cell...