The role of Wisconsin businesses in avian flu preparedness and genetic-based medicine will be among the trends explored at the 2006 Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association conference. The annual gathering, which will convene Oct. 12 at the GE Healthcare Institute, will feature addresses by...
Several companies in Wisconsin's Chippewa Valley have landed over $36 million in new contracts with the Department of Defense, and businesses in southeastern Wisconsin received more than $20 million in the recent defense appropriations bills - much of it for products and technologies that better...
For a variety of reasons, your domain portfolio may not be as impenetrable as you think. In the latest edition of IP Online, columnist Deborah Wilcox provides several principles for domain name protection, and she reminds chief executives to conduct trademark searches to find out...
The recent Milwaukee BarCamp was called the "unconference" for a very good reason. With no formal schedule and about as many keynoters as attendees, technology professionals were free to talk about anything tech related, professional or otherwise. The camp was held in the casual setting...
Does your office building have broadband connectivity, security, and other intelligent amenities? If not, it may be technologically out-of-date, even if it has every other modern amenity, according to columnist James Carlini. ...
U.S. Trailmaps, Inc., a software developer for off-road mapping applications for snowmobilers, all terrain vehicle (ATV) users, hikers, campers, fishermen, and hunters, announced a deal with Kegonsa Capital Partners to develop interactive trails that are downloadable into global positioning system (GPS) units, personal computers and...
The promise of health information technology to bring down costs for all parts of the healthcare system - including employer-sponsored health insurance - remains very real, but low IT adoption rates mean it will take considerably more time. For the time being, employers will have...
Johnson Controls, Inc. has partnered with TomTom, a navigation solution provider based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to integrate satellite navigation devices into vehicle electronic systems. Beginning in 2008, drivers should be able to select a point of interest on a touch screen device....
Cedara Software, a Merge Healthcare company headquartered in Canada and an independent developer of medical software technologies, has released a new version of its digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) toolkit. The MergeCOM-3 enables rapid application development for software companies interested in creating medical...
Sarbanes-Oxley has been more costly than projected, and has identified more risk within business organizations, but the benefits for reliable financial reporting and investor confidence are undeniable. Still, the challenge is making sure SOX creates more benefits than costs, and according to Guest Columnist Ron...