As the economy continues to weaken, public CIOs find themselves increasingly involved with economic development. The latest to join this small but influential group of government IT leaders is Colorado CIO Michael Locatis. Last week, Locatis joined Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter on a two-day economic...
Genius, a brand division KYE Systems Corp., has announced a new compact, pocket-size high-definition (HD) digital video camera that captures both high-resolution stills (at 11-megapixels) and high-definition video (at 5-megapixel in MPEG-4/H.264 format) and is light enough (under 6-ozs) and portable enough to allow users...
An article in InformationWeek states that the (NSF) grant recipients will explore image processing, large-scale data analysis, improving the Internet, human genome sequencing, and other areas. The National Science Foundation on Thursday said it has awarded nearly $5 million in grants to 14 universities, including UW-Madison,...
There are no shortage of isolated spots in Wisconsin, and Washington Island is high on the seclusion list. Located about seven miles off the tip of Door County, where the waters of Green Bay meet those of Lake Michigan, the 30-square-mile island is accessible by...
If you're shopping for a computer now, there's an added factor to consider. Later this year, both of the major computer operating systems, Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X Leopard, will be replaced with major new versions: Windows 7 and Mac OS X...
You know the famous saying: It’s the economy, stupid? It’s time that lead technology professionals realize that for them; it’s the bottom line, stupid. Information Week’s Bob Evans spells it all out in a recent column that is an open letter to all chief technologists...
“Do any state legislators really have a clue when it comes to prioritizing projects for Stimulus Package funding?” questions James Carlini. There is a lot of money coming to every state from a federal funding stimulus package. How are they going to spend it? There are...
Filament Games is a small Madison firm that wants to be the developer of the "Citizen Cane" of educational games. But these goals may be thwarted, or at least stifled, company founders Dan White and Dan Norton said, if Wisconsin does away with the one-year-old...
TomoTherapy Inc. said it will restate its financial statements for 2008, noting that its previous statements contained errors. The firm, which makes a radiaton system for treating cancer, said it found income tax accounting mistakes in previously released 2008 statmements. These errors could overstate...
IBM is building analytics clouds it says will help its clients make better decisions and better utilize the data that is available to them. The practice is enabling practices such as a "biobank cloud" that pools data at the infrastructure level, storing data used to...