Commentary

When Thomas Friedman wrote about the world being flat, he wasn't referring to global information technology budgets. Yet that's the state of IT spend entering 2009, according to a recent Gartner, Inc. survey, and that's actually been the case for several years. In this WTN...

With the talk of national stimulus packages for infrastructure, let's make sure we use the many talented information technology people that are sitting on the sidelines, observes columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he notes that this is not the 1930s, and...

When it comes to surviving this economic storm, Americans should not sit back and wait for miracles, opines columnist Tom Koulopoulos. In this edition of The Innovation Zone, he insists we can get through this, especially if we're not merely waiting for the elusive theatrical...

There is more to holding a patent than actually holding a patent. Once patents are granted, they must be managed and managed in accordance with patent law, notes Michael Best & Friedrich attorney Edward Sarskas, especially with existing patents coming under fire. In this...

Newspapers, or at least the actual paper versions of them, are losing readership to online news sources, a development that concerns former newspaper editor Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still explains why this development should concern a democratic society and how it...

The way the economy is going, an entire new class of entrepreneurs could be created by those who have lost their jobs. In this WTN Guest Column, Wisconsin attorney Sverre Roang focuses on programs to assist minority-owned and women-owned businesses. These programs are established to...

Bailouts do not create customers, but they do guarantee the status quo for business (and government) organizations that should be making drastic changes, observes columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he chides cable television's financial experts and expounds on the holiday sales...

We've just witnessed the sad spectacle of our federal government protecting mediocre Industrial Age auto jobs that aren't even producing world-class products, after doing nothing to protect cutting-edge information technology and telecommunications jobs, laments columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he agrees...