A big pile of city crime reports is not all that useful. But what if you could combine that data with information on bars, sidewalks and subway stations to find the safest route home after a night out? In Washington, a Web site called Stumble Safely...
Verona's JT Packard & Associates Inc. is to be purchased next month in a transaction that will retain all 297 employees, the company's chief restructuring officer said Thursday. The Madison-area tech firm filed a plant-closing notice with the state this week, but that was a technical...
The Internal Revenue Service has reduced the standard mileage rates that taxpayers can deduct for business use of motor vehicles next year to 50 cents a mile from 55 cents. The rate can be used by people who do not want to keep detailed records of...
As the year draws to an end, all the large search engines have now published their year-end roundups of the most popular search queries on their sites. On almost every service, these include Michael Jackson, Twitter, Lady Gaga and terms related to Twilight. Google also...
Have you ever been frustrated with slow-loading websites? Well, it might not even be related to inexplicable slow-downs in Mozilla Firefox, or to the site that you are visiting. Instead, the problem could be the presence of slow third-party servers belonging to ad companies. In...
Shares of companies developing stem cell therapies surged Wednesday on news that the federal government has cleared 13 new stem cell lines for testing, bringing to a close nearly a decade of restrictions. The news from the National Institutes of Health should provide some relief to...
A new DARPA contest is using balloons to test our social-networking skills. After kicking off the Internet 40 years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is again tapping into the Net for a new challenge. The DARPA Network Challenge will award $40,000 to the first...
Wall Street investment banking firm Goldman Sachs has taken a survey of the IT industry,and predicts that a spending recovery should be in the works for 2010. Goldman said its survey of IT professionals shows spending will stop contracting and return to normal levels seen...
Collaboration may be the hottest trend to hit the enterprise this year. But what makes it so hot? Why now? According to "Benchmarking Your Collaboration Strategy," a new report from Forrester Research, two key trends make collaboration important to the enterprise right now: The amount of content...
When Chuck Conaway took over as the chief executive of Kmart, he gave himself two years to resuscitate the discount retailer, get the right products on its shelves and make it competitive again with the new kings of general merchandising, Wal-Mart and Target. September 6 may...