Would you like to know what Cisco is up to lately? Network World's Zeus Kerravala gives us a quick update, straight from Chuck Robbins. At Cisco Live earlier this month, CEO Chuck Robbins outlined...
28 June, 2018 Internet ITSarah K. White, senior writer at CIO.com, has compiled a list of the seven most needed jobs in IT today, according to Robert Half Technology’s 2018 IT salary report. It's a quick reveal of the top sev...
21 June, 2018 Analytics Careers Cybersecurity ITIn regard to coins as an investment, here is an interesting question: What are some of the factors the SEC would consider in assessing whether a digital asset is offered as an investment contract, mak...
20 June, 2018 Blockchain EconomyIn this post, Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council, describes the employment opportunities discussed at the Sturtevant forum held at the Gateway Technical College’s Sturtevant camp...
19 June, 2018 Careers Commentary Economy WisconsinAs many of our readers know by now, blockchain is an architecture that allows users to conduct transactions with each other and create an unchangeable, secure record of those transactions. As such, it...
18 May, 2018 Blockchain Cybersecurity Finance Supply ChainRecently, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee’s Oversight and Research and Technology subcommittees held a hearing titled, “Leveraging Blockchain Technology to Improve Supply Chain Manag...
15 May, 2018 Blockchain Congress Cybersecurity IBM Supply ChainThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is looking at the possibility of using today's distributed ledger technology to bring speed, security and other efficiencies to monitoring swap transact...
09 May, 2018 Blockchain FinanceCoinDesk reports that "Four of the world's largest carmakers have joined tech providers and startups to form the biggest-ever consortium focused on applying blockchain tech in the automotive sector." ...
04 May, 2018 Blockchain CollaborationAccording to the 2018 IT Career Outlook report from SpiceworksIT, as many as one-third of IT workers will look for a new job in 2018. The reasons why they might look for a change differ between age ...
01 May, 2018 Careers Economy ITTom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council writes: "The startling rise of social media in less than 15 years has changed how people live, work and play – largely for the better, but also...
27 April, 2018 Commentary Social Media WisconsinAnne Canfield, writing for Blockchainplusthelaw.com, gives us a brief description of why we need new cryptographic advances and a privacy protocol that delivers blockchain's advantages. She envisions ...
25 April, 2018 Blockchain Cybersecurity SecurityAmazon Web Services has launched their new Blockchain Templates as a way to accelerate blockchain app development on Ethereum or Hyperledger Fabric networks. They expect the offering to give AWS users...
23 April, 2018 BlockchainPaul A. Jones, writing for Michael Best's Best Venture has some advice on whether to take your startup to Silicon Valley in search of venture capital. While on one hand, Silicon Valley might be the f...
16 April, 2018 Entrepreneurs Finance Venture Capital WisconsinRead the Jennifer Georgino interview David Houlding, Director of Healthcare Privacy and Security at Intel Health and Life Sciences (HLS), about enterprise blockchain implementation, hosted by Blockcha...
29 March, 2018 Blockchain HealthcareIn this article, Anne Canfield writes, "2017 may have been the year of the cryptocurrency, but 2018 is shaping up to be the year of the blockchain." She also predicts, "This technology will the next ...
27 March, 2018 Blockchain CommentaryToday, the U.S House of Representatives passed a federal spending bill that will fund the government through September 30, 2018. The bill offers several benefits and a few setbacks for the healthcare ...
22 March, 2018 Congress EHRs Healthcare President Trump U.S. GovernmentMore than 80 percent of all data breaches appear to take advantage of stolen or weak password credentials. In this CIOInsight.com article, Brett McDowell discusses the new National Institute of Standa...
19 March, 2018 Cybersecurity Homeland Security SecurityWhat do employers expect from college graduates they hire? Do they want an emphasis on STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and math – or a liberal arts background that may be more adap...
16 March, 2018 Education STEM UW-Madison WisconsinThe HIMSS18 Global Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas has wound up. In the latest issue of Healthcare IT News, Mike Miliard gives us an overview of the hot topics of the week. Acknowledging that th...
12 March, 2018 AI Blockchain EHRs Health Technology Healthcare IoT IT TelehealthNear the end of last year, the Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC) proposed a seemingly esoteric new rule that would define the term “actual delivery” for retail commodity transactions in virtua...
09 March, 2018 Blockchain U.S. GovernmentA glimpse into the near future: By applying the transformative advantages of IoT operations, “smart factories” will bring vast changes and benefits to the price of goods, job types and locations and e...
06 March, 2018 IIoT IoT Manufacturing Supply ChainWisconsin’s internet connections, from its most rural settings to under-served neighborhoods in its largest cities, may benefit from a diverse range of broadband technologies, soon to make their way t...
02 March, 2018 Broadband Internet IT WisconsinThe European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law, which takes effect on May 25, 2018 - just two months away - imposes a strict set of requirements on how and why companies collect an...
28 February, 2018 Cybersecurity GDPR General Data Protection Regulation IT Legal SecurityRumors have it that Amazon is planning a new service called "Shipping With Amazon," which will pick up packages from manufacturers and retailers and deliver them to consumers. The implication is that ...
20 February, 2018 UncategorizedThe U.S. leads the world in Blockchain deployments, and IBM is encouraging the U.S. government to embrace the technology for a host of benefits at a lower cost. ...
19 February, 2018 Blockchain IBMRumors have it that Amazon is planning a new service called "Shipping With Amazon," which will pick up packages from manufacturers and retailers and deliver them to consumers. The implication is that ...
10 February, 2018 AmazonRead up to learn "some of the most common IT gaffes include becoming trapped in a relationship with a vendor you can't shake loose, hiring or promoting the wrong people, and hiding problems from top m...
18 December, 2017 Careers ITAccording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of computer and information technology jobs is growing faster than the average for any other occupation. CIO Today tells us what talent the...
14 December, 2017 Careers ITAndreessen Horowitz analyst Benedict Evans explains how AI, mixed reality, cryptocurrencies, and autonomy will play out over the next 10 years to possibly create new categories of radical innovation t...
08 December, 2017 AI IoTWhether it's potatoes, corn, grapes or grain, farmers have to manually map hundreds of acres of land to harvest accurate information about their crops. But wait, that was before. This is now: Drone Ma...
07 December, 2017 Drones UncategorizedWhether it's potatoes, corn, grapes or grain, farmers have to manually map hundreds of acres of land to harvest accurate information about their crops. But wait, that was before. This is now: Drone Ma...
06 December, 2017 DronesThe Industrial Internet of Things is poised to transform practically all aspects of business. The Internet of Things Institute recently researched and compiled a cross-industry hierarchy of the curren...
06 December, 2017 IoT ManufacturingStill under reconciliation, the Saturday night/Sunday morning tax vote could give tech companies who stash money overseas a significant break on their tax liability for that money. ...
04 December, 2017 Economy Finance U.S. GovernmentHealthcare IT News reports that Apple's new patents, as well as Amazon's lab research, could make them major players in the digital healthcare industry. ...
28 November, 2017 Biotech EHRs IoTThe technology of telehealth is becoming a shining star among hospital administrators and staff. Digital healthcare tools that enable doctors to assess patient needs, and often provide assistance onli...
27 November, 2017 Health Technology TelehealthLast month, a bipartisan team in Congress, Dave Trott, D-Michigan and Susan Brooks, R-Indiana, proposed the Internet of Medical Things Resilience Partnership Act. If passed, it will require the Food a...
21 November, 2017 Congress Cybersecurity Healthcare IoTJust days ago, the American Express FX International Payments (FXIP) division and Ripple, an enterprise global blockchain solution company, announced a joint payment-transfer solution designed to redu...
20 November, 2017 Blockchain FinanceTaking a bold move to improve healthcare patient outcomes, MintHealth announced the launch of a blockchain-powered personalized health record (PHR). The company will incent patients to actively use it...
16 November, 2017 Blockchain Health Technology HealthcareDuring a recent Milwaukee Blockchain Conference at Marquette University, speakers discussed their ideas on the rapid adoption of the technology among a mixed financial and technical audience. ...
13 November, 2017 Blockchain WisconsinThe energy marketplace has embraced renewable energy production as part of a balanced portfolio. As Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council writes: "Despite President Trump’s oft-r...
08 November, 2017 Green Renewable Energy WisconsinCisco plans to bring ease of use to videoconferencing through voice-activated A.I. convenience with Cisco Spark Assistant. It will let users reserve meeting rooms, call meeting participants, start, jo...
07 November, 2017 UncategorizedOne of Wisconsin's key assets is quality healthcare, a commodity largely taken for granted inside Wisconsin and largely unknown to people and companies who may be thinking of moving or expanding here....
06 November, 2017 Healthcare Press release WisconsinThis Leverege.com blog post is an easy-to-understand review of how AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning work together to benefit each other, made possible by shrinking computer chips, improved senso...
03 November, 2017 AI Analytics Deep Learning IoT Machine LearningThis Leverege.com blog post is an easy-to-understand review of how AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning work together to benefit each other, made possible by shrinking computer chips, improved senso...
02 November, 2017 AI Analytics Deep Learning IoT Machine LearningCybersecurity is a quickly evolving field, with scads of startups across many categories, from secure communications, predictive intelligence and deception security to IIoT, cyber insurance and invest...
01 November, 2017 Cybersecurity Entrepreneurs SecurityAt a recent Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum, Hal Wolf III, president and CEO of HIMSS, discussed the need to apply new advanced technologies to the practice of healthcare and emphasized that t...
30 October, 2017 Analytics Health TechnologyIBM Watson Health has signed an agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research the benefits of blockchain and artificial intelligence, or as one spokesman called it, "augmen...
27 October, 2017 AI Blockchain Centers for Disease Control and Prevention IBM Watson HealthLucas Mearian, a Senior Reporter for Computerworld, describes a recent CDW survey of 1,794 IT and non-IT employees to better understand the role of user buy-in regarding digital workspace and collabor...
26 October, 2017 Collaboration IT MobileGartner has released an interesting research report, "Top Strategic Predictions for 2018 and Beyond: Pace Yourself, for Sanity's Sake." It focuses on new technologies – from artificial intelligence to...
25 October, 2017 AI Blockchain Internet IoTBlockchain technology changes how parties exchange value, and it has practical, efficient, secure benefits for practically every type of industry. This short blog describes its basic benefits in easy-...
24 October, 2017 Blockchain CybersecurityEpic Systems and CVS Health have announced a plan to reduce drug costs for patients and improve health outcomes by offering prescribers lower-cost alternatives to expensive medications. The article ...
18 October, 2017 EHRs Epic Health TechnologyAccenture recently surveyed aerospace and defense executives on emerging technologies they are considering or adopting. They tended to regard blockchain as one of the top emerging technologies that ca...
17 October, 2017 Analytics BlockchainCerner, athenahealth and eClinicalWorks have announced that they will integrate new data types, such as social determinants, population health and precision medicine to make EHRs more “comprehensive.”...
16 October, 2017 EHRsTrump's ACA executive order on Thursday is signed just weeks before the start of the fifth open enrollment season in the ACA marketplaces, on Nov. 1. ...
13 October, 2017 ACA Healthcare Insurance Obamacare President Trump U.S. GovernmentOn Tuesday, Microsoft rolled out a Cumulative Update for Windows 10, preparing customers for the incoming Creators Update. It is reported to be causing blue screen errors for many users. ...
12 October, 2017 IT Microsoft Windows 10Big data analytics is becoming a powerful platform for predictive modeling, using huge data sets that can show patterns and trends, even predicting future behavior that can help reduce waste and impro...
11 October, 2017 AI Analytics Biotech Health Technology ITEpic plans to move beyond Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to Comprehensive Health Records (CHRs), which will offer doctors an extended range of patient data, including what people eat, how long they ...
09 October, 2017 EHRs Epic Health TechnologyThe U.S. Government blockchain trade mission was a week-long event in the United Arab Emirates, custom curated by the Chamber of Digital Commerce with support from the Department of Commerce and the E...
06 October, 2017 BlockchainAn upcoming Money20/20 event (October 22-25, 2017) is focused on the broad-reaching impacts of artificial intelligence and its application to financial services. ...
05 October, 2017 AI SoftwareBABYGlimpse, a new app available on the Helix marketplace, explores over 20 different traits of a couple's unborn child, including ancestry, physical appearance and wellness-related traits....
03 October, 2017 Biotech Health TechnologyThe Open Web Application Security Project’s (OWASP) Internet of Things Top 10 Project is designed to inform users and security professionals about vulnerabilities in IoT architectures. Here are the to...
03 October, 2017 Cybersecurity Education Internet IoT IT SecurityTom Still, writing for Inside Wisconsin, gives us a glimpse at how hospitals, medical professionals, insurers, entrepreneurs and others are actively developing better, more efficient ways to care for ...
29 September, 2017 Congress Health Technology Obamacare WisconsinThe Trump administration is showing a keen interest in blockchain as a technology with the potential to streamline U.S. government operations. ...
28 September, 2017 AI Blockchain Cybersecurity Security U.S. GovernmentGovernor Scott Walker has designated October as Wisconsin’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Each week this October, ReadyWisconsin will provide information to help keep everyone in Wisconsin safe from ...
27 September, 2017 Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Awareness Month David Cagigal Don Dunbar Education Homeland Security Security WisconsinThis new series of Accenture Consulting articles describe how Artificial Intelligence is positioned to become the greatest cost, time and labor-saving technology to hit healthcare. ...
26 September, 2017 AI Health Technology SecurityToday: Looking for more consistency in search results between Siri, iOS searches and Spotlight on Macs, Apple has replaced Bing with Google for most searches. ...
25 September, 2017 Apple iOSHere are the latest predictions on how fast cloud computing can eliminate the healthcare datacenter, provided by Healthcare IT News. ...
25 September, 2017 Health Technology Internet IT UncategorizedEquifax has been breached twice this year now. Jessica Davis at Healthcare IT News gives us insights into the Equifax response, making mis-steps we can all avoid if we are breached. ...
24 September, 2017 Health Technology Internet IT Security UncategorizedAs the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Republican proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the possibility looms that Wisconsin could lose billions of dollars over time for the very reason the GO...
23 June, 2017 Commentary EconomyThe overarching cybersecurity theme of summer 2017 is shaping up to be a widespread infosec talent shortage against the backdrop of fear that arose after the WannaCry ransomware threats happened. Addi...
23 June, 2017 Commentary Health Technology SecurityThere have been times over the last two months when Golan Ben-Oni has felt like a voice in the wilderness. On April 29, someone hit his employer, IDT Corporation, with two cyberweapons that had been ...
22 June, 2017 IT SecurityWould you like to know what your customers want before they do? Of course. Every business wants to be able to anticipate the needs of their customers. And that starts by understanding customers in ...
22 June, 2017 IT Marketing Social Media“Brands Expand Into New Niches With Care, but Not Without Risk,” a recent NYT article, was full compelling brand extension stories. It also contained examples in which I found myself saying, “What wer...
16 June, 2017 MarketingThe breakthrough financial success of the new Wonder Woman film contains an important lesson. For years, women super-heroes were outside the scope of movie producers’ considerations. Why? A 2004 film,...
08 June, 2017 Commentary Entrepreneurs Marketing UncategorizedWaze is expanding its carpool service to cover the entire state of California, after successful trials in San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey, and across Israel. The app identifies suitable commuters...
07 June, 2017 Internet ITAndy Rubin wasn't ready to retire when he left Google in 2014. He certainly could have: After an illustrious career developing some of the most innovative products in tech, he had all the wealth and a...
30 May, 2017 IT SoftwareA new mobile payment device was recently introduced that can utilize a breathalyzer and fitness tracker-like band to help prevent people from spending too much money when they’re intoxicated. DrnkPay...
30 May, 2017 Entrepreneurs IT SoftwareMore than 80 percent of CISOs reported that some detected data breaches are going unaddressed, and 70 percent said it is difficult to prioritize threats based on business criticality, according to a n...
30 May, 2017 Health Technology SecurityBritish Airways (BA) said it would take steps to ensure there was no repeat of a computer system failure that stranded 75,000 passengers over a holiday weekend and turned into a public relations disas...
29 May, 2017 Internet IT SoftwareThe large scale WannaCry (WannaCrypt) ransomware attack that has crippled over 100,000 computer systems, primarily in health care, is a reminder of just how vulnerable the world's computing infrastruc...
29 May, 2017 Commentary Legal Security UncategorizedCryptocurrencies are booming beyond belief. Bitcoin is up sevenfold, to $2,500, in the last year. Three weeks ago the redoubtable Vinay Gupta, who led Ethereum’s initial release, published an essay en...
28 May, 2017 Entrepreneurs Internet ITFirst the good news. If you get a signed term sheet with a reputable angel or venture investor, there is a very good chance you will get a deal done. Unless, of course, you don’t. Probably the most c...
25 May, 2017 Careers Legal Uncategorized Venture CapitalA mathematical savant, virtual reality experts, renowned nature nature film-maker, well known author, “remote viewer” and assorted new-age folks were part of Promega’s BioPharmaceutical Technology Cen...
25 May, 2017 Biotech Commentary UncategorizedDinner is set but the phone rings, and when you pick up it isn't a friend, or someone you know, sometimes it's not even a person. It's a robocall. Robocalls for years have managed to catch people at ...
25 May, 2017 Legal Social MediaTechnology often marches ahead of the ability of government regulators to keep up. A prime example is the internet, which surged ahead in its formative days in part because there was an absence of red...
25 May, 2017 Commentary Internet IT Manufacturing Security Venture CapitalIn 2003, Keith Rabois, a longtime Silicon Valley investor and executive, had an ambitious idea: He wanted to start a website that would instantly offer a fair price for your home. If you accepted the ...
24 May, 2017 Entrepreneurs Venture CapitalTech companies and app developers everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief after Monday's major Supreme Court ruling on a topic that's close to their hearts: patents. More specifically, patent lawsui...
23 May, 2017 Entrepreneurs Legal SoftwareThe internet of things is real, and it’s a real part of the cloud. A key challenge is how you can get data processed from so many devices. Cisco Systems predicts that cloud traffic is likely to rise n...
23 May, 2017 Internet IT SoftwareOn the EHR world stage, InterSystems and Epic won more new hospital contracts in 2016 than any of their rivals, according to a new KLAS report: “Global EMR Market Share 2017.” The two companies broke...
23 May, 2017 Economy Health TechnologyLines of business want services fast; IT will need an investment budget that allows it to try to achieve desired solutions and sometimes fail. It used to be that every IT technology project needed to...
22 May, 2017 Careers Internet ITThere are some specific steps Wisconsin policymakers can – and should – take to improve its business startup rate, which once again anchored the bottom of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s annual...
22 May, 2017 Entrepreneurs Venture CapitalWisconsin Governor Scott Walker issued an executive order on Thursday to create a steering committee, which will look into autonomous cars and connected vehicles. The committee will research and eval...
21 May, 2017 Economy Entrepreneurs Manufacturing Venture CapitalThis isn’t my usual biotech beat, but compromising my computer can certainly affect the beat and I don’t like that. Over the last week, a nasty ransom-ware program infiltrated hundreds of thousands co...
19 May, 2017 Commentary IT Legal Security UncategorizedBlockchain technology has immense potential to streamline business transactions and processes, but the technology isn't devoid of limitations, according to Pramod Achanta, partner, financial services ...
18 May, 2017 Blockchain ITIn healthcare, machine learning may yield fast, accurate insights. But humans are still better able to detect ridiculous anomalies and discover problems that machines have not yet learned to detect. A...
18 May, 2017 Entrepreneurs Health Technology Internet IT ManufacturingRobert Gren was working from home on Friday when, all of a sudden, his laptop stopped working. What he initially thought was just a kink in his computer’s software was in fact part of a global ransom...
17 May, 2017 Internet Security Social Media SoftwareThe free and open internet as we know it is at risk. Tomorrow, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote to initiate a process to repeal the strong net neutrality rules that have been in ...
17 May, 2017 Internet ITElectronic health record system conversions are one of the largest undertakings an organization can undertake, and Epic go-lives are famous for sometimes going wrong. However, Kevin Johnson, MD, thin...
17 May, 2017 Health TechnologyLinkedIn is bringing its Today's Job Matches feature to mobile job seekers in an upcoming update. LinkedIn is rolling out new tools aimed at helping job seekers find new work and recruiters hunt down...
17 May, 2017 Careers IT Marketing Social Media SoftwareThe global ransomware attack called “WannaCry,” which began last week and continues today, could have been avoided, or at least made much less serious, if people (and companies) kept their computer so...
16 May, 2017 Security Software UncategorizedWhen the National Security Agency began using a new hacking tool called EternalBlue, those entrusted with deploying it marveled at both its uncommon power and the widespread havoc it could wreak if it...
16 May, 2017 Internet Security SoftwareYou've paid dearly to start and grow your business; the steep tuition of success that only an entrepreneur will ever understand. So, you would never do anything to sabotage your businesses, right? Wel...
16 May, 2017 Careers Commentary Entrepreneurs InternetFor 12.2 Million Americans, signing up for health insurance in 2017 was a leap of faith: that Obamacare would make it through the year, that the health exchanges wouldn’t collapse, that premiums would...
16 May, 2017 Internet Social Media Software Venture CapitalThere's a huge court case you need to hear about. It might not be on your radar yet because, frankly, some of it gets pretty technical. But the outcome is likely to have enormous repercussions for onl...
11 May, 2017 Internet IT Legal SecurityIBM's Watson first made headlines in 2011 when it was on the "Jeopardy" TV game show, and now it is boldly going to the final frontier, with the new Sony PlayStation virtual reality game "Star Trek: B...
11 May, 2017 Entrepreneurs IT Marketing SoftwareWhen I was young, there was no such thing as the World Wide Web or video streaming. If you wanted to watch something, you had to wait until it appeared on television. Sometimes you might think, “Hey, ...
11 May, 2017 EducationLocal municipalities are increasingly turning to smart city technology to reduce public crime through efforts such as connected lighting, targeted surveillance and data assets. One of the more innova...
10 May, 2017 Internet ITMark Kearns, 38, a web designer and gamer from Chicago, stumbled upon a new video game called Star Citizen while online in late 2013. The game, which was in development, promised to revive the spacefl...
10 May, 2017 Internet Social Media Uncategorized Venture CapitalWhile most IT security professionals are well aware of the nature of cyber threats, many lack the predictive insights to pre-emptively do anything about new threats. Addressing that issue usually mean...
09 May, 2017 UncategorizedWhen the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in April that it would let 23andMe market its Personal Genome Service Genetic Health Risk tests directly to consumers, it was seen as a victory for...
09 May, 2017 Entrepreneurs Health Technology InternetGermany has always been a place for industrial invention and innovation, reflected by the creation of the concept of “Industrie 4.0” by the German Government. Last week saw Europe’s leading technolog...
08 May, 2017 Entrepreneurs Internet IT Manufacturing SecurityIn December, hackers impersonating an executive at Interscope Records, the record label owned by Universal Music Group, managed to bypass all the latest in digital defenses with a simple email. In a ...
08 May, 2017 Internet Security Social Media SoftwareMedici Ventures, the blockchain technology arm of online retailer Overstock.com, has added bitcoin consumer financial service platform Ripio to its portfolio of strategic blockchain-focused investment...
08 May, 2017 Blockchain Venture CapitalFor employers, hiring and retaining young employees has become more difficult than ever before. Today’s young IT workers are often looking for different things in a job than their older counterparts a...
03 May, 2017 Careers Internet Marketing Social MediaThe Xconomy San Diego Forum on the Human Impact of Innovation offered a window into how information technology and science, marching hand-in-hand, will shape healthcare. “IBM’s Watson is not the only ...
02 May, 2017 Commentary Entrepreneurs Health Technology MarketingBig Wall Street companies are using a complicated technology called blockchain to further increase the already lightning-fast speed of international finance. But it’s not just the upper crust of high ...
02 May, 2017 Blockchain Careers Economy Education EntrepreneursWhen the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the “internet of things,” the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products like hackable lightbulbs and refrigera...
02 May, 2017 Security Social Media SoftwareAmong our greatest enemies, as individuals, as organizations, and as a society are the false biases that justify an attitude of "us and them" --in a word, discrimination. Fortunately it's one of the a...
01 May, 2017 Careers Commentary Education Marketing Social MediaHave you ever seen your nieces or nephews or a high school friend after a ten year hiatus? You are amazed at how much they have changed. You wonder when did they grow up? It seemingly happened overnig...
01 May, 2017 Biotech Commentary Entrepreneurs UncategorizedBut today, the utilities sector is under pressure to simultaneously reduce costs and improve operational performance. Utilities are a bit late in digital innovations than retail, banking or insurance...
01 May, 2017 IT Manufacturing SecurityPresident Donald Trump has signed an executive order creating the American Technology Council, an organization tasked with modernizing the federal government’s IT systems and the digital services they...
01 May, 2017 Internet IT Security SoftwareUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, CIO Bruce Maas offers pointers on why CIOs and information technology leaders shouldn't shy away from scaling opportunities. CIOs and information technology leaders s...
28 April, 2017 Careers Interviews ITDid you feel a sudden loss of Internet freedom in February 2015? That's when the Federal Communications Commission imposed net neutrality rules that prevent Internet service providers from discriminat...
27 April, 2017 Internet LegalWhat began as a straightforward software contract with Epic resulted this week in the U.S. Coast Guard starting its entire EHR acquisition process over some seven years after it began. EHR implementa...
26 April, 2017 Health Technology SoftwareCybercriminals use sophisticated technology to rake in millions of dollars in scammed and stolen money across the globe, and cost their victims millions more to clean up the messes they leave behind. ...
26 April, 2017 UncategorizedNet-A-Porter didn't know how much money it was leaving on the table when the Web site failed to keep up with traffic. New microservices captured it. Luxury fashion might seem to be an unlikely space ...
25 April, 2017 IT Social Media SoftwareThe first mistake companies make while trying to protect their digital assets is to believe they can be secure. “Forget aspiring to full protection. Hacking is black magic engaged in by a ton of bad g...
24 April, 2017 Commentary SecurityThe deputy director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, Steve Gutkin, explains how building strategic public and private partnerships can help protect a country's critical ...
24 April, 2017 Internet Interviews IT SecurityWearables are now a significant part of corporate wellness and remote patient monitoring programs. However, long-term investment from seniors remains a challenge, despite an increasing need for senio...
21 April, 2017 Entrepreneurs Health Technology Internet Social Media SoftwareA couple of weeks ago I met with the email management and security vendor Retarus. While I was unfamiliar with the company (and it had a reasonably standard portfolio, I thought at first glance), my i...
21 April, 2017 UncategorizedState of Wisconsin CIO David Cagigal and CISO Bill Nash offer pointers on how a strategic CIO-CISO partnership can help drive and prioritize cybersecurity. They enumerate the elements that help drive ...
21 April, 2017 Interviews IT SecurityMicrosoft is launching IoT Central today, a new Internet of Things (IoT) service that gives enterprises a fully managed solution for setting up their IoT deployments without needing the in-house exper...
20 April, 2017 Internet IT Security SoftwareWhen it comes to keeping confidential data locked down, it turns out that even employees trained in cybersecurity best practices still don't always know how to protect sensitive information, according...
20 April, 2017 SecurityThe rapid advancement of mobility in the enterprise has often outpaced the development of mobile data security best practices, and this obstacle is made more complicated by the fact that mobile device...
19 April, 2017 Internet ITChinese internet giant Baidu has said it will share much of the technology it has created for its self-driving cars. The firm predicted that the move would help drive the development of autonomous ve...
19 April, 2017 Entrepreneurs IT SoftwareFacebook on Wednesday pulled aside the curtain on a secretive unit headed by a former chief of the Pentagon's research arm, disclosing that the social media company is studying ways for people to comm...
19 April, 2017 Internet IT Social Media SoftwareResearchers are training artificial intelligence to identify tuberculosis on chest X-rays, an initiative that could help screening and evaluation efforts in TB-prevalent areas lacking access to radiol...
19 April, 2017 Health TechnologyBlockchain networks tend to support principles, like open access and permissionless use, that should be familiar to proponents of the early internet. To protect this vision from political pressure and...
18 April, 2017 Blockchain IT LegalEvery technology wave calls the role and value of IT into question. More than a dozen years ago it was cloud technology raising the question “Does IT Matter?” Today, digital transformation is callin...
17 April, 2017 Commentary Internet IT Marketing SoftwareMark McDonald, a year-after-year favorite WTN Fusion speaker, created a compelling case for Information Technology’s next revolution at the recent Fusion 2017 conference. Mainframe computers, the firs...
17 April, 2017 Internet IT Marketing SoftwareAgriculture, manufacturing and tourism are the holy trinity of the Wisconsin economy and may always be so, given the state’s rich traditions in all three sectors. Technology increasingly drives each ...
14 April, 2017 Economy Entrepreneurs ManufacturingMost of the world’s largest banks and financial institutions have already allocated billions of dollars to the development of Blockchain technology. The question remains, will Blockchain technology re...
13 April, 2017 Blockchain Entrepreneurs InternetIt looks like we can add another one to the string of IPOs that at least look like they’ve been successful — with Yext, too, popping more than 20% once its shares made their debut this morning. Share...
13 April, 2017 Software Venture CapitalTech companies are pushing the Federal Communications Commission not to water down its rules on net neutrality, teeing up a confrontation between Silicon Valley and Washington as the nation's top tele...
12 April, 2017 Internet IT LegalTwo years ago, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek pulled off a demonstration that shook the auto industry, remotely hacking a Jeep Cherokee via its internet connection to paralyze it on a highway. Since...
12 April, 2017 Security SoftwareThe 420-bed El Camino Hospital in California has seen a dramatic turnaround with is hospital fall rates, and advanced predictive analytics is getting a lot of the credit. “We were having a lot of diff...
12 April, 2017 Health Technology SoftwareThe industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a major part of the “fourth industrial revolution”, but only 26 percent of decision makers have a well articulated digital transformation strategy. That’s ...
11 April, 2017 Entrepreneurs Internet ITAmazon is making the technology that makes its Echo line of devices so good at picking up your voice commands available to third-party device makers. That includes the microphone array that helps Echo...
11 April, 2017 Internet ITWhile most of tax scams have been aimed at individual taxpayers, there are some new scams aimed at businesses that will try to approach your employees. It was a fairly typical Wednesday afternoon, me...
07 April, 2017 Security UncategorizedMADISON – A few years ago, when Brian Kaas attended some of the nation’s leading conferences for venture capitalists, the audience was predominantly investors from stand-alone venture funds. Today, w...
07 April, 2017 Commentary Economy Internet Venture CapitalYelp this morning announced it has paid $20 million in cash to acquire the Wi-Fi marketing company, Turnstyle Analytics, which offers a service that allows businesses to connect with their customers o...
05 April, 2017 Internet Social Media SoftwarePresident Trump signed congressional legislation Monday night that repeals the Federal Communications Commission's privacy protections for Internet users, rolling back a landmark policy from the Obama...
04 April, 2017 Internet Security Social Media SoftwareWe live in a cyber-vulnerable world – a world governed by data. Data encapsulates almost every aspect of our personal and public life. It is heavily shared, distributed, stored and accessed, and it is...
04 April, 2017 Internet Legal SecurityWhether you see Bitcoin as the key to a free, utopian form of economy, or as a regulation-free mystery of the digital age, it has, to this point, thrived outside of the standard rules that dictate how...
04 April, 2017 Blockchain Internet Security SoftwareSome security professionals apparently find it tough to maintain safe password practices outside of work, with 53% percent acknowledging that they either haven't changed their social network passwords...
03 April, 2017 SecurityWindows 10 adoption in the enterprise is on the rise, but most businesses are hanging on to Windows 7, according to a new Spiceworks study. Windows 10 is gaining traction among corporate buyers, but ...
03 April, 2017 Security SoftwareWhen the Georgetown University Law Center offered computer programming last year, it was an experiment, a single class for about 20 students. It was filled almost instantly, and the waitlist swelled t...
03 April, 2017 Careers Education SoftwareOn March 26, President Trump tapped his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to head the newly created White House Office of American Innovation. The agency, which will run as its own department within the West...
03 April, 2017 Health TechnologyWhen President Trump took office in January, the White House web site rolled out a goal consistent with his campaign pledges on the economy. “To get the economy back on track, President Trump has out...
31 March, 2017 Commentary Economy Manufacturing UncategorizedIf you keep hearing your tech-savvy colleagues and friends using the term “blockchain,” but still feel like you don’t quite understand what they’re referring to, you’re not the only one. Even top exec...
28 March, 2017 Blockchain ITBlockchain is shaking-up entire industries as one of the most disruptive technologies of today. From banking and insurance to agriculture, energy, healthcare, and media, it is disrupting entire indus...
27 March, 2017 Blockchain IT Security SoftwareMADISON – With his proposed cuts in federal research and development spending, President Trump risks harming a priority he puts at the top of his own list – national security. The history of federal ...
24 March, 2017 Economy Health Technology Security Venture CapitalThe big banks and Silicon Valley are waging an escalating battle over your personal financial data, including the amount you spent on dinner last week and how much you are paying for your mortgage. Te...
23 March, 2017 UncategorizedSenate lawmakers voted Thursday to repeal a historic set of rules aimed at protecting consumers' online data from their own Internet providers, in a move that could make it easier for broadband compan...
23 March, 2017 UncategorizedMadison CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology Bruce Maas is receiving Fusion CEO-CIO 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for 42 years serving higher education IT in Wisconsin and worldwide. The ...
21 March, 2017 UncategorizedHow much do you know about your medical identity? You know you’re generally in good health. You know your height and your weight. You know if you have any chronic conditions. But can you remember how ...
14 March, 2017 Blockchain UncategorizedProminent healthcare executives are predicting a drastic shift from on-premise IT infrastructure into the cloud. That includes electronic health records, clinical decision support and analytics....
14 March, 2017 Health Technology ITWikileaks’ CIA dump is the biggest secret cache released so far. It’s embarrassing to the CIA. It undermines our intelligence efforts. And it didn’t need to happen. The sad fact is that the world’s c...
14 March, 2017 SecurityFor Silicon Valley, the headline was sweet nectar: Google DeepMind, the world’s hottest artificial intelligence lab, embraces the blockchain, the endlessly fascinating idea at the heart of the bitcoin...
13 March, 2017 Blockchain Internet ITNIO, an electric vehicle startup backed by Chinese venture capitalists, unveiled its first self-driving car concept at SXSW this weekend. The NIO EVE is a “mobile living area” as much as a vehicle, a...
13 March, 2017 Green IT Software Venture Capitaleveral new iPad models have been spotted being tested in Cupertino and nearby locations, according to mobile marketing firm Fiksu — potentially confirming earlier rumors of a planned iPad refresh arri...
12 March, 2017 UncategorizedMany entrepreneurs, especially those who are Millennials or younger, focus on products or services designed for people like themselves. The list includes software applications of all descriptions, gra...
10 March, 2017 UncategorizedWikiLeaks this week published a trove of documents that appears to detail how the Central Intelligence Agency successfully hacked a wide variety of tech products, including iPhones, Android devices, W...
08 March, 2017 Internet IT Security Social MediaAWS operations explains that it was tougher to restart its S3 index system this time than the last time they tried to restart it. The Feb. 28 outage of Amazon's Simple Storage Service says one thing ...
07 March, 2017 Commentary Internet SecurityWhen Zach Halmstad looks at the under-construction Confluence Arts Center, the software entrepreneur sees more than a performing arts building. He sees a big part of the future of downtown Eau Claire...
03 March, 2017 Careers Commentary Education Health Technology ITCybersecurity incidents continue to grow in both volume and sophistication, with 64 percent more security incidents reported in 2015 than in 2014, according to a June 2016 report by the Ponemon Instit...
03 March, 2017 IT SecuritySomething strange happens when you look into a crystal ball. For some, it becomes easier to imagine roadblocks that don’t actually exist or that are not really insurmountable. Maybe it’s a way to cre...
27 February, 2017 Entrepreneurs Internet Venture CapitalFarming is getting smarter every day. From large commercial operations to local organic growers, technology is at the forefront of reducing cost, improving yield and guaranteeing optimal delivery to m...
27 February, 2017 Green Internet ManufacturingThe technology's implications for interoperability, privacy, claims processing and more are intriguing. But many challenges must be addressed before wider applications become possible....
27 February, 2017 Blockchain Health Technology Internet IT“Everybody and their mother is out to create their own specialized voice-activated devices,” IBM fellow and CTO for its Watson project Rob High told me during an interview at MWC. IBM, of course, does...
27 February, 2017 Internet Social MediaOnly 29% of US businesses have cyber insurance; Deloitte outlines steps for insurance companies to improve risk models, communication, and policy sales. Sales of cyber insurance policies are sufferin...
24 February, 2017 Legal SecurityEven as fanatic customers can be counted on to line up outside the Apple store for the latest iPhone, there are still millions of Americans who don’t use a smartphone at all. For that matter, there ar...
24 February, 2017 Internet ManufacturingViewed from afar these days, it might be easy to conclude that life in Washington, D.C., has become a reality show gone awry. Cabinet-level nominees stepping down amid claims of wrongdoing; a preside...
24 February, 2017 Commentary Internet IT Legal SecurityCalled the “largest interconnected machine,” the U.S. electricity grid is a complex digital and physical system crucial to life and commerce in this country. Today, it is made up of more than 7,000 po...
23 February, 2017 Green Internet Security UncategorizedNorthern Trust is working with IBM and other key stakeholders, to launch the first commercial deployment of blockchain technology for the private equity market. While private equity returns can be a...
23 February, 2017 BlockchainI recently returned from a vacation to find that Google’s algorithms had created a customized slide show of my trip. I hadn’t asked for one. But the company’s software robots apparently noticed I’d tr...
21 February, 2017 Internet IT Security Social MediaBreezoMeter has collected pollution data and created a way to build real-time air pollution maps for big cities. The San Francisco company is launching an interactive map of air pollution based on da...
21 February, 2017 Biofuels Biotech Internet Social MediaLenovo Health has joined forces with Orbita, a connected home healthcare technology vendor, to unveil a virtual home care system at HIMSS17 based on two recently debuted products: Lenovo Smart Assista...
20 February, 2017 UncategorizedWith Republicans now in power across the government, Congress has moved aggressively toward undoing Obama-era tech policies. Net neutrality, the rule that ensures equal access to all websites, and bro...
19 February, 2017 IT Security Social MediaThere has been plenty of talk about the need for a chief analytics officer or chief data officer. But do you ever wonder what they do for a living? As analytics continues to spread out across an orga...
17 February, 2017 Careers Education InternetWe all know that the technology industry has a gender problem. But how do you move the needle from awareness to action? Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, and Girls Who Code, a nonp...
17 February, 2017 Careers Education IT LegalA century or more ago, there were plenty of people in Wisconsin who cringed at the thought of all those horseless carriages, motorized bicycles and boats buzzing about. And yet, it was precisely that ...
16 February, 2017 UncategorizedA small startup company, Echo Labs, is working to integrate a new level of health monitoring into wearable technology. Echo Labs provides health care organizations with analytics to allow for better ...
16 February, 2017 Health Technology IT Social MediaA Verizon report highlights how big data complexity and a shortage of data science talent are hurdles for an IoT implementation, but we also have to remember the key best practice of having a business...
09 February, 2017 Commentary Internet ITWhen a cyberattack occurs, ethical hackers are called in to be digital detectives. In a certain sense, they are like regular police detectives on TV. They have to search computer systems to find ways ...
09 February, 2017 Legal SecurityIntel, the world’s largest computer chip manufacturer, will invest $7 billion to finish a factory in Arizona, adding 3,000 jobs, the company’s chief executive said on Wednesday after meeting with Pres...
09 February, 2017 Careers Economy IT ManufacturingDemisto, which helps automate Security Operations Centers (SOC), announced today that is has raised $20 million in new funding. The Cupertino, Calif.-based startup has developed DBot, a chatbot that ...
09 February, 2017 Security Venture CapitalJawbone might pivot to the medical industry as it exits the consumer market, according to people close to the company. It has already sold all its assets for the Jambox speaker business, and has heavi...
06 February, 2017 Entrepreneurs Health TechnologyWe live in a data-driven world. From social media to smart cities to the internet of things, we now generate huge volumes of information about nearly every detail of life. This has revolutionized ever...
05 February, 2017 Entrepreneurs Manufacturing SecurityWisconsin has a strong tradition of entrepreneurship. Think of the marquee companies that remain the state’s economic “calling cards” – Oshkosh Corp., S.C. Johnson, Johnson Controls, Manitowoc Co., H...
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