Internet

The first order of business for Scott VanderSanden, the new president of AT&T Wisconsin, will be to implement Project Lightspeed, the company's highspeed Internet initiative. VanderSanden also will oversee the launch of U-verse, which is AT&T's new Internet-protocol video service....

Sonic Foundry, the Madison-based producer of the rich media product Mediasite, has filed a shelf registration that will allow it to sell up to 12 million shares of common stock to raise up to $42.6 million. Proceeds could be used for a variety of business...

The nuts and bolts of starting a business include choosing a business entity name, which is more involved than it sounds. Fortunately, the Internet provides a way to find out if you have "naming rights" in Wisconsin, according to Early Stage columnist Joe Boucher, and...

American society uses technology in virtually every facet of life, which is one reason why Wisconsin has begun to move away from paper records in the healthcare system. As Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton explains in this WTN Visions Column, the real impact of our pending...

Securitas Technologies, a new start-up company based in Madison, is in the early phases of developing anti-malware systems that target the behavior of viruses, spyware, trojans, and other destructive programs. The company hopes to meet opportunities created by an increasingly sophisticated class of cyber criminals....

A new government relations venture seeks to provide an additional anchor to companies that occupy space in Wisconsin's emerging technology and life science sectors, and its more mature manufacturing base. The organization, hamilton.gsp, is a collaboration between Wisconsin's own Hamilton Consulting Group and GSP Consulting....

When it comes to stirring technology passions, the subject of "net neutrality" ranks right up there with embryonic stem cell research. But before we entertain ideas to regulate the Internet, guest columnist Jim Rice, president and CEO of the Information Technology Association of Wisconsin, believes...

Madison's Epic Systems Corp. received its first real public relations black eye in recent weeks, but the company is finally responding to criticism of its $3 billion electronic health record installation at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. Following the complaints of a persistent Kaiser Permanente employee,...

InfoWorld, a San Francisco-based publication, has listed the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee among the leading 100 organizations that have invested in innovative technology. The publicaton cited "PantherFile," the university's Web-based information sharing system, in its latest listing of top emerging technologies....

Wisconsin's new identity theft law isn't as tough as its authors claim, according to Milwaukee attorney Mark Garsombke. In this WTN guest column, Garsombke points out some fundamental flaws in a law that was enacted earlier this year, and suggests Wisconsin follow the example of...