John Senne is one of the lucky ones. He got the news that his team at Torex, a global point-of-sale systems provider based in Chicago, was being eliminated in mid-January. Senne, who supported the sales group by building demos of POS systems for potential new...
Gentel Biosciences, a nine-year-old privately held protein-array firm based in Madison, Wis., is planning to launch assays for carbohydrate and protein biomarker profiling this month, and to debut a new high-throughput microarray platform called APiX in June, according to a company official. Dan Clutter, Gentel's new...
A new analysis by the New York-based Commonwealth Fund of HIT deployment in seven industrialized countries finds that physicians’ adoption of health IT is highly variable, with the United States lagging well behind the other countries. The study also found that physicians with greater IT capacity...
On January 28th, with absolutely blazing speed and alacrity, particularly by Washington standards, the House of Representatives passed their version of the economic stimulus package, the cornerstone of President Obama's economic policy. The final vote was 244 to 188. Not a single Republican voted for...
In this latest installment from the Life Is Not Fair department, we return to the issue of whether the dogmatic notion of aligning IT with the business was in fact carved on the stone tablets given to Moses. As you wrestle with the pressures of...
Lack of governance is the biggest obstacle to enterprise Open Source implementations. Getting the projects under control is step one. Open source deployments are becoming more pervasive as enterprise IT shops get more comfortable using the software. But open source can present challenges, and organizations would...
German scientists have sent mouse stem cells back to their embryonic origin by introducing just a single gene, a finding that could eventually lead to simpler, safer ways of generating cells for human medicine. A little more than a year ago, researchers in Madison and...
To host or not to host, that is the question many solution providers are asking themselves when it comes to e-mail and collaboration packages. Find out which ones serve the customer best, while still preserving solution provider revenue. Read more>>...
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. private sector shed 522,000 jobs in January, according to the ADP employment index, pointing to another hefty month of job losses when the government reports its payroll figures on Friday. The ADP index, compiled from anonymous payroll data, showed the...
Technology entrepreneurs are having a devil of a time finding angels. Angel investors are the optimistic financiers who give entrepreneurs their crucial first infusion of cash to bring their ideas to life. Now, in the midst of a punishing economic downturn that is sparing few companies,...