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Industry Veterans take a look back from 2025: Bio-Technology, and Bio-Informatics are the focus

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Panelists at the Demo 2003 conference offered insights into the next technology innovations by answering Producer, Chris Shipley's question, "If we look back in the year 2025 what will see as the big innovations?" Mitch Kapor, Chairman of the Open Source Applications Foundation, and founder of Lotus, began the discussion by stating, "I would be hanging out in the Bio...

Quick peeks, Clawback Agreements, and the rules of electronic discovery

will highlight the rule changes, while subsequent articles w...

Inventions could fall prey to Monday morning quarterbacking

soon will decide whether to change the current long-standing patentability standard for obviousness. To be patentable, an invention must not be "obvious" in light of what was publicly known at the moment it was created by the inventor, and any change in the legal test for obviousness would p...

Venture-backed firms could become eligible for federal SBIR grants

The will soon consider a proposal that would give small companies majority-owned by venture capital firms eligibility for Small Business In...

Net neutrality will be back, supporters vow

The pro-neutrality group , a coalition of consumers an...

Baldwin backs funding for Midwest biotech incubator

Funding for the Midwest Biolink Incubator was included at the request of , D-Madison, in an appropriations bill passed Wednesday in the House of Representa...

IT may take a back seat in fighting avian flu

Panelists talked about being three years late in developing IT systems to help detect and mitigate the e...

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...

Old bell system merging back together, but it's not the same

AT&T buying BellSouth for $67 billion creates a bigger entity to deal with for regulators. In an editorial about a year ago, I coined the term "revestiture". In it, I observed that consolidation just like in the oligopoly that is the automobile industry is a natural evolution and is critical for survival: As a country, we are progressing quickly into what I call the tel...

Are guest worker programs causing backlash amid IT downsizing?

Last week, I heard two guests on CNBCs Kudlow Show discuss the American workforce and what was happening with various jobs. One gentleman was from the CATO Institute and the other was a Democratic representative (Pascrell) from New Jersey. The inference from the CATO Institute director that there is a shortage of skilled people in IT in the U.S. is very questionable. He is putting forth...

2005: the year of the comeback

The last column of the year is an invitation for reflection, and this one is no different. These last 12 months have seen a resurgence of the technology market and well no doubt look back on 2005 and pronounce it the year the Internet economy got back on its feet. In the overall scheme of things, the previous four years were a standing eight count, not the death blo...

Palm TX could bring Palm faithful back

Poor Palm. As if its not already living in the long shadow of Apple, a company that long-ago abandoned the handheld market yet still manages to dance in the spotlight of the mobile device market, Palm picked Oct. 12 to announce what could well be its most significant product of the year. If you remember, that was when Apple introduced its new iPod with 150 hours of...

Renaissance Learning will expand in Dallas and cut back California and Madison

, Inc., a provider of computerized assessment and progress monitoring tools for pre-K-12 schools and districts, will expand its Dallas field sales office and add a training and certification office center for all Renaissance product solutions. Renaissance Learning also plans to adjust space needs at oth...

Farm Aid celebrates 20-year journey, heads back to Illinois roots

As indicated by the in an article this weekend on this unique phenomenon, the American farm is not on...

A funny thing happened on the way out of the back office

Everybody still in the loop would take...

Scientist takes back patents and develops product others ignored

Hed been working since the mid 1980s on biotechnology that was was not being promoted by any of the businesses to which it had been licensed through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.<b...

Outsourcing fills gaps and drives U.S. back toward innovation

Protesters during the industrial age screamed against rapid automation as a serious threat to jobs and a possible destruction of society. They later protested...

Academic R&D helps bring federal bucks back to Wisconsin

For reasons that range from the culture of its people to the size of its congressional delegation, Wisconsin is not a magnet for federal dollars. The state ranks 40th among the 50 states in federal balance of payments, meaning Wisconsin taxpayers send far more money to Washington than they get back. Wisconsin is 45th in per-capita federal spendin...

Storytelling makes a comeback in an unlikely place

Lori Silverman, owner of the consulting firm Partners for Progress and co-author of the organizational performance book Criti...

Will mobile phones go back to school?

That has some school administrators worried. Last week, in one example local to Silicon Valley, administrators at San Mateo Union High School District debated new policy to ban the use of...

Third Wave to buy back stock

MADISON "Third Wave's stock repurchase program underscores the confidence of our board of directors i...

Venture-backed companies drive job creation, even in tough times

MADISON During last springs legislative debate on the pros and cons of a major venture capital bill, it was sadly apparent that more than a few Wisconsin lawmakers had their doubts about the merits of non-traditional investment capital. The next time this debate rolls around, lets hope members of the Senate and Assembly have read the latest study of venture capitals role in the growing...

The economy has come roaring back or is that roar just a purr?

MADISON I hereby declare the economic downturn in Wisconsin to be over. You dont believe me, you say? Well, I guess Im not surprised. But allow me to sing a chorus of Happy Days Are Here Again before I remind you why youre still a bit skeptical. A pile of available evidence proclaims that Wisconsins economy is back. Consider the following: The states unemployment rate...

From the back roads to the superhighway: Making the connection to Internet2

A joint effort of industry, government, and more than 200 universities (including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University), Internet2 is leading the way toward revolutionary new network technologies and high-speed Internet-based applications. But effective access to Internet2s main infrastructure is still limited. In this commentary, UW-Madisons Chief Informa...

Putting spam back in the can wont be all that easy

MADISON I feel like Julius truly cares about me. He often sends me stock tips. Brittney cares, too. She passes along ideas for how to buy prescription drugs on the cheap. Octavio? Hes my main man when it comes to debt reduction. Ursula seems more interested in enlargement. These are just a few of the names that pop up in the From line of my e-mail every day, usually arriving overnight s...

Theyre Back: Technology Industry Spotting Angels Once Again

CHICAGO Theyre back. In its forecast of the top 10 entrepreneurial trends for 2004, Red Herring magazine recently proclaimed: Angel investors are back funding the small start-ups that will be tomorrows giants. Angels, of course, are an important source of venture financing. The (CVR) at the <a hr...

Consumers Lead Tech Market Comeback

If the economy isn't coming back, you couldn't tell it by the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Mountains of product releases, a near-electric buzz among attendees, and cab lines. Cab lines like you haven't seen at a technology tradeshow in recent years. In fact, if the length of the taxi queue were an economic indicator, this market is coming back strong. There were othe...

Overseas Outsourcing Brews Backlash

Recent reports indicate a domestic backlash is brewing against firms who outsource IT services to foreign-based companies. Two recent examples took place in late November, when Indiana's governor cancelled a $15.2 million contract with a company in India to upgrade the state's unemployment claims processing system (subsequently granting it to an Indiana-based company). And Dell announced it would...

Health Care Reform is Working Its Way Back on to the Political Agenda

MILWAUKEE The people who run St. Josephs Regional Medical Center here have a problem: Too many patients are using the emergency room like a walk-in clinic, an expensive practice that ties up valuable medical resources which should be used for critical care, not runny noses. To discourage people from using the ER for minor ailments, the hospital announced last week it will impose a $150 minimum f...