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Creating a public service for multimedia content

Founded amid the clamor and managing to duck the hype of peer-to-peer networking, Mike Homer's Kontiki has evolved into a rich media delivery platform based on a "grid network" to accelerate the delivery of video and audio content. A skilled market reader and a clever product director, Homer has guided Kontiki around the land mines of P2P, digital rights managemen...

New CEO at TDS on creating a culture of innovation (Part 2)

CEO Dave Wittwer, he addressed the role information technology will play in transforming TDS from a phone company to a broadband provider. In this second part of the interview, he addresses the need to drive innovation, and explains why every TDS...

Beating back the bozos is an innovation must, says Kawasaki

The art of innovation is in large measure the ability to tune out negativity, author and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki said Friday to a gathering of southeastern Wisconsin technology professionals. Kawasaki, managing partner of and author of "Art of the Start" and several other business books, gave his 10-point "Art of Innovatio...

Tech center supports energy-saving device for heat-treating plants

The funds will suppor...

Creating thousands of jobs, Chicagos biotech space to triple

While the primary responsibility of child rearing was that of a mother and father, the extended family (frien...

Bill would deny tax credits to firms creating stem-cell cultures

The Wisconsin Assembly voted late Tuesday night to amend a bill granting tax credits so that any corporation doing research on newly created human embryonic stem cells would be denied. Mirroring federal funding restrictions, the amended bill excludes firms that do any research involving the destruction of human embryos perhaps most significantly to extract stem cells from them after Au...

Grant winners hope to cultivate job-creating tech businesses

Business incubators are nothing new to Wisconsin the state has dozens of them operating but several of them are using a new round of state grants to inject fresh life into a tried-and-true concept. The Wisconsin Department of Commerce has awarded 26 grants totaling more than $750,000 from the state's Community Based Economic Development (CBED) and Community Development Block Grant (CDB...