The seemingly endless tale of information technology workforce woes, highlighted by Microsoft Corp.'s recent decision to eliminate 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, apparently will not impact the company's advanced research lab in Madison. David DeWitt, the retired University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science professor...
Stamford, Conn. - Gartner, Inc. has identified eight mobile technologies that will evolve significantly through 2010, impacting short-term mobile strategies and policies. “All mobile strategies embed assumptions about technology evolution so it's important to identify the technologies that will evolve quickly in the life span of...
An oversight by the city of Madison's personnel office is why Social Security numbers of 300 to 500 city employees were stored on a laptop computer stolen Friday from an office in the City-County Building. The laptop was found about two blocks from the City-County Building...
The Board of Directors of MyWeather, a Madison-based provider of digital weather and traffic content, has appointed Madison native Christopher Kelly as its new company president. Kelly, a graduate of both Washington University and The Wharton School, will lead the company's new direct-to-consumer initiatives. ...
Is the economic recession actually a better time to conduct business for organizations that are lucky enough to survive it? That might seem like a stretch, but the talk at a recent Accelerate Madison technology program did highlight some of the few upsides of operating...
Tom Koulopoulos, a keynote presenter at the 2009 CEO-CIO Fusion Symposium and a frequent WTN columnist, has a must-read new book, according to CIO Insights. His latest of six books, titled “The Innovation Zone: How Great Companies Re-innovate for Amazing Success,” is ranked among the...
Many companies don't understand the true value of their data and networks to hackers and thieves. Following the compromise of 100 million credit card records, solution providers should double-check their clients' security posture. The Jan. 20 announcement by Heartland Payment Systems that a security breach left...
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it is cutting 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, a sign of how badly even the biggest and richest companies are being stung by the recession. The announced layoffs appear to be a first for Microsoft, which was founded in 1975,...
Gartner executive Mark McDonald says chief information officers must have a sense of urgency about helping their organizations weather the economic recession - four months of urgency, in fact. In particular, he told WTN that technology managers should have the urgency to demonstrate how information...
Tushaus Computer Services has named veteran executive Jack Gebhardt as its new president to serve along side founder and CEO Gregg Tushaus. The Milwaukee-based technology company provides a range of IT-related services from offices in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, and Oshkosh. ...