CHICAGO – Can it be that things are looking up in our Midwest tech economy? Headhunters are a little more optimistic this fall. Monster.com and HotJobs are a little more interesting. Hiring managers are still deluged with inquiries from job seekers but working harder to...
CHICAGO – Germany has often been regarded as the economic motor of the European community particularly with its central geographic location. It’s just south of Scandinavia, to the east of the U.K. and France, just north of Switzerland, Austria and Italy and west of the...
For a very long stretch, unless you dropped your PDA on hard pavement or put it through the wash, there really was no reason to upgrade to a new one. Barring a few bells and whistles intended to attract the enterprise volume buyer, PDAs offered...
CHICAGO – Here is a joke my dad told me (actually, he told it to my 10-year-old daughter and she passed it on): Three guys were walking on a beach and they found a bottle with a cork in it. They opened it up and...
This is an amazing time to be working in the technology industry. Technology is driving significant change in our work and in our lives. Some change we notice, but much of it we do not....
Unfortunately, yes! Advancements in technology continue at an accelerated pace, but the challenge now is to leverage new developments into new tech jobs for workers here in the United States. We need to rethink America’s “value add” in the technology equation. We need to...
CHICAGO – Though results for third-quarter publicly traded biotech stocks continue to show strong growth, the rate of growth seems to be slowing down (or else the rest of the market is catching up). The Nasdaq Biotech index continues to lead with year-to-date sizzling growth of...
NEENAH – Tucked away in a basement at Menasha Advantage, a subsidiary of Neenah’s Menasha Corp., is a research center its staff affectionately calls “The Skunkworks.” There, a better cardboard box is being born....
What a difference a few years makes. In 1999, charities had raised only $7 million via the Internet, and almost $2 million of belonged to the American Red Cross. Last year, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which now publishes a yearly tracking...
Editor’s Note: John Byrnes Lets Get Serious Column that first appeared on The Wisconsin Technology Network on July 17, 2003 stimulated a great deal of mail with healthy debate and discussion among many members of our audience. Here is another look...