Tech business disasters are outages, not just acts-of-God

In the Midwest, we don’t have to worry about acts-of-God happening as frequently as our friends on the coasts do. But disasters affecting tech businesses don’t have to be natural disasters to be equally as devastating to the bottom line. September is National Disaster Preparedness month, so take a few moments to reassess and perhaps reinvigorate […]

ExactTarget Marketing Cloud puts customer on pedestal at Connections 14 digital marketing conference

ExactTarget Marketing Cloud’s Connections digital marketing conference gets bigger and better every year. So much bigger and better that the whole event had to be moved to the Indiana Convention Center this year for Connections 2014. Keynotes and entertainment from will.i.am, The Script, and Mindy Kaling, and 100+ breakout sessions were all kicked off with an opening […]

BioCrossroads wins national tech-based economic development award

Last week at the State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI) Annual Conference in Chicago, Indiana-based life sciences initiative BioCrossroads won the Excellence in Technology-based Economic Development (TBED) award in the category Improving Competitiveness of Existing Industries. This is the same SSTI award won last year by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) — one of the most […]

LIFTOFF! Techshot Bone Densitometer heads to ISS aboard SpaceX Dragon – Indiana Technology

Floating weightless in space sure looks like a lot of fun, but there are real dangers for astronauts with bone loss. Crew members who might spend six to nine months traveling to Mars, for example, are at a higher risk of experiencing a life-threatening or mission-compromising fracture once they land and surface operations begin. Astronauts can lose […]

Tech, Business Groups to Congress: Don’t Hit the ‘Delete’ Button on the Fourth Amendment

(This piece by Sheryll Poe originally ran on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce blog this week in honor of Constitution Day.) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by […]