The Obama administration's lifting of Bush-era restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research will result in a “massive step forward” in the long term, a Milwaukee-based researcher said today. But the rollout of the new guidelines has harmed research in the short...
Just recently, Wisconsin passed its biennial budget bill, 2009 Wisconsin Act 28. This followed another significant piece of legislation, the budget repair and economic stimulus bill (2009 Wisconsin Act 2), passed just a few months ago. While changes to Wisconsin tax law may not be surprising,...
To identify the top 10 highest-paid executives in charge of IT, CIO.com combed through the proxy statements filed by Fortune 55 companies with the SEC. Proxy statements, which are distributed yearly to shareholders when their votes are needed to elect new board members or to...
CIOs in recent survey continue to throttle back their budgets and reduce spending on new IT projects. But they do see some light coming next year. Plenty has changed over the last nine months - bankrupt auto makers, government bailouts, a financial crisis, a Wall Street...
AT&T hit back at Sen. Herb Kohl Wednesday, denying that the wireless industry is anti-competitive and again insisting that its exclusivity arrangement with Apple for the iPhone has paved the way for other innovative smartphones, not served as a hindrance. "The popularity of the iPhone and...
Lured by the state's tax credits for investments in high-growth companies, a Minneapolis biotech start-up said Thursday that it was moving to Wisconsin. VitalMedix Inc. is developing a drug that first responders, trauma center surgeons and military medics could use. The drug, Tamiasyn, has the potential...
A computer technician was arrested this week after allegedly stealing customer names and credit card numbers from a Sheboygan business and posting them on Twitter, the Sheboygan Police Department reported Wednesday. Advertisement The information was stolen from multi-restaurant delivery service I'm Hungry, which hired Michael P. Fumich,...
Waving $2.4 billion in cash, EMC finally beat out NetApp, its archrival in the storage business, for the right to acquire Data Domain and its data deduplication technology. On Wednesday, NetApp dropped out of the bidding, and Data Domain’s board approved EMC’s offer. Even in the...
Are we there yet? Dell and HP resellers tired of waiting for the next corporate PC refresh cycle can look forward to it starting in 2010 and continuing through the next three years, according to a report from Bernstein Research. Just when you thought PC sales...
Why did you click on this article? I bet the headline had something to do with it. So many press releases display boring headlines ("Our Company Is Going To Attend An Obscure Sales Conference Somewhere") and even more lifeless copy in the body of the...