Biotechnology start-ups have long relied on grants from the National Institutes of Health to fund the research-and-development process for new drugs, medical devices and disease treatments. Every year, the agency is required by law to set aside 2.8 percent of its research budget -- $650...
Sand Hill Road is about to have some new denizens: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are setting up shop for their new venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. We wrote about the firm Monday. In a recent conversation, the two men shed some light on their...
Dr. David Blumenthal -- a long-time Boston physician, official at Partners Healthcare System, and Harvard professor, was named national health IT coordinator to lead President Obama's health IT strategy in March. Topping Blumenthal's list of duties is making recommendations to the U.S. Dept. of Health and...
The bad news: first-quarter spending on computing technology was worse than forecast. The good news: growth could resume earlier, according to a report Forrester Research released Tuesday. The analyst firm reduced its forecast for 2009 information technology spending from a 3 percent decline to a 10.6...
Vice President Biden yesterday announced guidelines for $4 billion in stimulus funds to expand high-speed Internet access across the nation, jump-starting a program that has been criticized for taking too long to get off the ground. The first round of grants and loans is part of...
Madison is leading the country once again. Our utility company, Madison Gas and Electric (MG&E) has purchased six electric car charging stations for the city. While the technology is not new it will be the first network in the United States from an...
Yahoo thinks its plan for a new data center could eventually help the company achieve carbon-neutral status without having to resort to the purchase of carbon offsets. Yahoo designed its forthcoming data center to let outside air cool the servers at all times, borrowing the idea...
Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, on Tuesday announced a new Web site designed to track more than $70 billion in government information technology spending, showing all contracts held by major firms within every agency. The revamped site, USAspending.gov, was launched early this morning, and...
The salaries of IT managers are retreating, and those who are most affected by the trend are managers running technology operations at midsize companies with less than $500 million in annual revenue, according to a semi-annual study from Janco Associates Inc. From January 2007 to this...
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked all of the vendors, "SaaS or on-premise?" The assumption, because this conference was all about modern 2.0 stuff, was that everyone would say, "SaaS, of course." Wrong. At least 50% of the vendors were deploying primarily on premise. Even...