Wisconsin Technology News

What's IT Worth? Northwestern Mutual Life CIO Knows
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CIO Tim Schaefer thinks words do matter. He looked at the words IT used inside Northwestern Mutual Life, and felt they sent exactly the wrong message about IT's role in meeting business goals. So, over the last 18 months, these words are out: IT costs, internal customers, IT leaders, Alignment, IT systems, and "IT and the business." In are these: IT investments, external customers, business leaders, integration, service levels, IT assets, and "our business."

CIO Executive Edge: Business and IT file for divorce citing irreconcilable differences
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The headline highlights an old and ongoing argument within IT that assumes that the business is perpetually disappointed by IT and that IT is consistently undervalued in the enterprise. While the argument is an old one, the basic assumption for more than 30 years as the business and IT needed each other and therefore they would find a way to make it work.

Phishing scam targets UW e-mail accounts
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How CEOs See Cloud Computing
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Google Maps adds biking routes for the intrepid cyclist
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After a long wait and more than 50,000 signatures on an online petition, cyclists will be happy to know that Google has finally added bicycle routes to Google Maps. In Google Maps, users can now find "Bicycling" in the tool's "Get Directions" drop-down box. After choosing the option, bikers can input two addresses and find the bike route that will get them to their desired destination.

HSBC Employee Stole Data on 15,000 Swiss Accounts
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British banking giant HSBC Holdings Plc said on Thursday that account data from 15,000 Swiss bank customers were stolen by a former employee. A former employee, widely reported to be Herve Falciani, stolen details on 15,000 existing bank accounts at HSBC Private Bank, based in Geneva. The bank did not explicitly identify the name of the employee, but Bloomberg confirmed that Falciani was an information technology officer at the bank.

Before Apple vs. HTC: Tech's five most sensational patent cases
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Imagine a world in which Microsoft wasn't allowed to sell Windows or Word, no one could use a Blackberry, Intel's chips were taken off the market and every company that wanted to deploy Linux had to pay an exorbitant fee to an obscure software vendor.

CIO Executive Edge: Leading in times of transition
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We are nearing the end of the first quarter of calendar 2010 and a few things are becoming apparent. 2010 is a year of transition as the global economy begins to recover, strategies turn to a focus on growth and new technologies work their way into the market place.

Google opens app store for business software
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PercipEnz Technologies honored as one of the 2010“Wisconsin Companies to Watch”
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