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Digital River Provides E-Commerce Operations for Metrowerks

MINNEAPOLIS-Digital River, Inc. a e-commerce outsource provider, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Metrowerks, aprovider of software development tools and services. Based on the agreement, Digital River built Metrowerks' e-commerce site, located at store.metrowerks.com, to support the online sales and marketing of Metrowerks' line of CodeWarrior(TM) software and hardware produc...

Childrens Medical Hospital of Wisconsin Goes Digital

MILWAUKEE, WI Its Saturday night. Your 4 year old has stomach pains, and you drive to the emergency room. You check in and provide all sorts of personal medical information including her medical history and your billing and insurance information. Meanwhile your child is in pain, and you try to remember if you told the person at the front desk everything. Then you wait; maybe an hour or two as th...

Douglas Stewart reaches distribution pact with digital video firm

Financial terms of the deal were...

Bridging the digital divide is the wrong battle cry

Beating the drum for a socialistic platitude on the use of the country's network infrastructure may be considered noble in some circles, but it does not capture the true essence of the total importance of having an infrastructure that can support and sustain economic development. Forget the Digital Divide and view our lack of infrastructure providing true broadband...

Digital Healthcare Conference 2007: Mounting obstacles for health IT

The progress that has been made, and the issues still to address, will be the focus of the annual set for May 9 and 10 at t...

Doyle wants sales tax applied to digital downloads

The proposed tax, put forth two years after a similar proposal died at the committee le...

Businesses could bridge digital divide in Milwaukee with used computers

The , having finalized a contract with <a href="...

Digital Media Superstar: Seagate?

It would have been easy to overlook last week's flurry of announcements from hard disk drive stalwart Seagate. After all, this company has been making component hard drives for more than 20 years - and disk storage is, as everyone knows, a rather mundane commodity market where the greatest excitement comes from news that someone has packed another gigabyte of magnet...

Does redefining universal service help bridge the digital divide?

In exchange for getting exclusivity to a geographic subscriber base, the traditional phone companies ensured that everyone got service to their house or...

StrandVision markets digital signage to K-12 schools

will market a Web-based signage system that uses existing televisions to distribute daily school annou...

Digital Healthcare Conference starts on a realistic note

The conference, which is being held May 3 and 4 at the Fluno Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, featured an opening panel discus...

Digital Healthcare Conference marks Wisconsin's Healthcare IT Week

Healthcare IT Week recognizes the contribution that information technology makes to keeping people health...

FDA approves advanced digital mammography system

The system offers more evidence that the medical community is moving to adopt digital mammography tools that enable higher quality images for the detection of breast cancer. With...

StrandVision to put digital signage in local dental office

The screen will display information on local weather, news, office hours, treatments, and dental products and services, all beamed from StrandVision's servers. Group Health sta...

Eau Claire digital signage firm gets angel investment

StrandVision, formerly Online Kiosks, has a plan to put video scre...

Digital Government Summit seeks to bridge the digital divide

Matt Miszewski, CIO for the State of Wisconsin, said the goal of the conference was to develop connections between public and private...

Madison top-ranked In Digital Cities Survey

The city's Web portal, <a href="...

Merge releases new digital mammography software

, a Merge Healthcare company and a medical imaging software and services company, today announced the release of Cedara I-ReadMammo digital mammography workstation software. This multi modality, vendor-neutral mammography workstation software product is designed to help organizations streamline breast imaging workflow and reduce...

Wisconsin state agencies commended for digital innovations

The , based in Folsom, Cal., is a natio...

Sprecher Brewing unveils award-winning digital office

"The Before" - As appealing as a warm, flat pint of ale, Sprecher Brewing Co.'s offices were in dire need of new document technology and a fresh, bright look. Before the team from Xerox Corporation and...

GE Healthcare develops digital medication system

, a nonprofit health care organization based in Salt Lake City, announced a joint project for the development of a new electronic medication administration record, also known as an eMAR, which will better enable collaboration by everyone involved in the car...

Small Tree is streamlining digital video editing

Chippewa Valley-based Blaze will...

Digital Healthcare Conference, Mithridion, lack of degrees

At the recent Digital Healthcare Conference top healthcare decision makers met to discuss how information technology can improve patient safety, decrease medical costs, and improve the delivery of healthcare. Meanwhile at the Entrepreneurs Conference held in Milwaukee, Mithridion won the Governors Business Plan Contest. On another note, a recent report has stated that Wisconsin lags behind the na...

Preview: Electronic health records, tech choices explored at Digital Healthcare Conference

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced yesterday that a new organization, the American Health Information Community (AHIC) will be formed to make recommendations for a nationwide system for storing and sharing patient's medical records electronically. This news makes the , which wi...

Achieving digital solidarity

in Lille, France. This four-year-old conference draws nearly 1,000 people from around Europe to discuss the transformative power of technology. As the lead speaker on a two-hour p...

GE Healthcare wins $200m slice of Englands digital health-care plan

Englands National Health Service wants to install systems nationwide to allow medical images to be transmitted among hospitals so that experts can lo...

Madison police adopt digital lock and key

It has proven to provide a robust and dependable situation thats easily adopted by police off...

Heart hospital goes digital, eliminates paper records

TULSA, Okla. it has installed of a new information technology system to handle hospital files. This update creates a completely digital environment, eliminating all paper record...

Islands in the Clickstream: Digital Religion

is a collection of over 150 reflections on the digital world. WTN will be reprinting excerpts from selected chapters of...

TeraMEDICA offers seamless sharing of digital medical images

WAUWATOSA, Wis. Since the late 1970s, the problem of storing film from medical images such as CT scans and ultrasounds has proved an elusive challenge for the medical industry. With some medical studies involving 2,000 pictures per procedure, old methods of storing, sharing and archiving medical images on film are fast becoming outdated as the use of digital medical...

U.S. Health and Human Services officials to speak at the Digital Healthcare Conference

MADISON - Kathleen Heuer, deputy assistant secretary of budget, technology and finance at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, FACMI, and senior advisor of the National Health Information Infrastructure at HHS, will be keynote speakers at the Digital Healthcare Conferenc...

Analog people in the Digital Revolution, part II

In my previous column, I started a discussion about what people are good for in the digital revolution. Theres a lot of blah, blah, blah out there about the complexity of current business and technical environments and the need for better judgment, greater flexibility, improved communication and more dynamic creativity. Whats missing from that gray fog of biz-speak are pragmatic courses of action...

Analog people in the digital revolution

Youve heard the drumbeat about IT project failure rates. Youve probably heard mention of all the usual suspects like the lack of sponsor support, poor requirements and scope definition, lack of business relevance or bad communication. What might not be so apparent in all of this hand wringing is the real root cause. Its the people. None of the items listed are technology based. For each one, the...

Digital Lifestyle: I'm linked in, now what?

Twice in my career, dating back as long ago as 1988, I enthusiastically embraced the idea that personal computing had become a lifestyle and joined teams to create magazines to examine and celebrate that life. Both times, we were - at best - well ahead of our time. Now, many years later, I'm getting very excited about the converging computer and consumer electronics market, the emerging...

Heart patients benefit from digital image network

Hartland, Wis. -- The C...

GE Medical Enables Digital Heart Hospital

Waukesha, Wis. - GE Medical Systems and will be the te...

Teramedica Signs Deal With Mayo Clinic - Digital Imaging solution improves healthcare

MILWAUKEE, Wi - in Roche...

Sony Bets Heavy on Wisconsin Digital Entertainment Presence

On July 29th, ) will hold its annual meeting at which shareholders will be asked to vote to approve the purchase of its entire desktop software business including its Sound Forge, Vegas video editing and ACID music creation...

WTN exclusive interview with Patrick Kennedy, exec. VP, Sony Pictures Digital

Sony's Patrick Kennedy has focused his professional career on business strategy and corporate development issues in the telecom and entertainment fields. Currently, he oversees the day-to-day strategic operations of the an alignment...