Although Wisconsin's high-tech exports declined by 10 percent in 2007, the state still posted an impressive 86 percent increase in high-tech exports in the seven-year period from 2001 to 2007, according to a new report from AeA, formerly the American Electronics Association. The report indicated...
November 1, 2008 is the deadline for compliance with the federal Red Flag anti-identity theft regulations, warns attorney and columnist Mark Foley. In this edition of Digital Lex, Foley notes that even if these regulations do not specifically apply to your company, they establish a...
If you don't understand that information technology has become inextricably linked to the core business of most industries, then you don't understand IT, observes columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he critiques the IT-belittling premise of Switch, Nicholas Carr's latest book....
Five Wisconsin companies, led by Fiserv, have made the annual Information Week 500 list of top technology companies. The list, which also includes Kohl's Corp., Marshfield Clinic, Metavante Technologies, and Schneider National, recognizes firms whose IT departments have moved the business forward....
For Alliant Energy Corp., the June 2008 floods in Iowa and Wisconsin posed the kind of disaster recovery scenario that keeps chief information officers up at night. David Cagigal, chief information technology officer for Alliant, didn't lose a lot of sleep thanks to a business...
Unable to bring its stock price up to the minimum $1 needed for listing on the Nasdaq Global Market, Sonic Foundry has been notified that a transfer of its stock to the Nasdaq Capital Market has been approved by the market's listing qualifications staff. The...
Madison, Wis. - A distinguished researcher from Purdue University with significant private and public sector experience will return to Wisconsin as the executive director of the new Morgridge Institute for Research, part of the twin Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Sangtae (Sang) Kim, who currently serves as...
A group of recent Wisconsin college graduates, armed with nothing but tech savvy and big dreams, hope to build the next mega dot.com business, according to WTN columnist Steven S. Clark. Hardin Design & Development may have started in the basement of a home, but...
The term “next-generation” facility may be overused, but local officials believe it applies to TEAM Companies' new Tier 3 data center on the Fitchburg Technology Campus. The data center, which opened last week, will provide storage and protection of corporate information, and potentially serve to...
Madison, Wis. - Devesys Technologies, Inc. announced today that the company has begun shipping TrakWeb 3.0, the newest version of their browser-based case tracking and investigation solution. Intended for large organizations with users scattered widely across the country or around the globe, TrakWeb 3.0...