eBay decides to spin off VOIP company Skype, with which it has a decidedly uneven relationship. An IPO is planned for the first half of 2010, although eBay says the specific timing of the IPO will be based on market conditions. Read full article>>...
Raven Software has 185 employees and is located in Madison, Wisconsin. They are best known as a creative gaming studio that produced such hits as Quake 4, Wolfenstein, X-men, Star Wars, Star Trek, Soldier of Fortune and more. In this interview with WTN News,...
Oracle Corp. may have decided to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. because it is worth far more to the database market leader than it was to IBM. It's not a question of the price — at $7.4 billion, Oracle didn't agree to pay much more than...
There's a new CTO in town. President Obama selected Aneesh Paul Chopra, Virginia's secretary of technology, to serve as the country's chief technology officer (CTO). "In this role, Aneesh will promote technological innovation to help achieve our most urgent priorities – from creating jobs and reducing health...
In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter - just by thinking about it. A University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student, Wilson is among a growing group of researchers worldwide who aim to perfect a...
Think consumers aren't paying to the health IT investments you make? Think again. A new study from Deloitte suggests that consumers are indeed interested in knowing what you're spending on health IT, especially tools that they might end up using directly. According to the 2009 Deloitte...
Virtual worlds for children and teenagers — Web sites like Neopets, Club Penguin and Habbo — are a big business. On these sites, children create an avatar and, with it, explore an imaginary universe. They can play games, chat and decorate virtual rooms or other...
With the Medicare and Medicaid incentives for health information technology use announced, almost 70 percent of United States hospitals are only two steps away or less from having the health IT applications necessary to deliver EMRs, according to the EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) from Chicago-based...
Consulting firm BearingPoint may have filed for Chapter 11 protection, but its CIO has a plan for making sure his top workers don’t flee. In good times, retaining top IT talent is a top priority for CIOs. Now, in the recession, many IT leaders are...
Employing sophisticated tools such as memory-scraping malware and unique packet sniffers, organized crime led a record assault on databases in 2008, resulting in more electronic records being compromised last year than the previous four years combined. Organized crime successfully cranked up its data breaching efforts...