LANSING - Through June, local school districts, local governments, universities and the state have gone to the financial markets to float more than $5.25 billion in bonds, a figure well more than twice as much governing units issued in bonds in the same time in 2014. Much of that increase is driven by local school
TROY - Syntel Thursday announced it is a presenting sponsor for the Enactus India National Competition to be held at the Leela Ambience, Gurgaon, India on July 21 and 22. Enactus is a global non-profit organization operating in 36 countries. Enactus student members have spent the year working on entrepreneurial projects designed to positively impact
TROY - Walsh College will host a special Admission Day for new and prospective students at its campus locations in Troy, Novi, and Clinton Township July 23. Admissions and academic advisors will be on hand in a one-on-one appointment setting to discuss Walsh's undergraduate and graduate business and information technology programs, as well as the
DETROIT - Michigan Supreme Court Justice David F. Viviano is the Court's point-person for judicial training and statewide e-filing. Viviano said the expanded use of videoconferencing technology to create "virtual" courtrooms has saved the Michigan Department of Corrections nearly $5 million over the past two years. Currently, 417 courtrooms in Michigan have videoconferencing capabilities. To
MILWAUKEE - A 27-year-old suburban Milwaukee man created an Internet site used as a worldwide malware marketplace that was shut down Wednesday after an investigation by 20 law enforcement agencies across the globe, federal documents filed Wednesday show. The site, known as Darkode.com, was seized by federal authorities Tuesday. A dozen people, including Daniel Placek
DETROIT - In May, Royal Oak proposed the creation of a Smart park and put the matter to a vote of its citizens through a crowd funding site. The space will be for public gathering, free WiFi and digital information about the town's businesses.Royal Oak needed to raise $60,000 by the time the campaign ended
ANN ARBOR - MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan describes the new VideoMeeting platform that will launch this fall and allow anyone anywhere collaborate from the cloud in live video. To listen, click on http://www.internetadvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/VideoMeeting-Explanation-1.mp3
LANSING - After more than three years of discussion and debate, the Department of Environmental Quality formally began the process Thursday of a rules change that would remove hundreds of chemicals from the list of toxics the DEQ automatically regulates in air emissions. Now at about 1,200, the number of regulated chemicals would drop to
FERNDALE - ITInTheDEpisode 100: The night of bad puns, occupancy code violations, Bob being rendered speechless, mayhem with puppets and so, so much more. Had a really great night for episode 100 of our live weekly podcast, and with a room full of lively guests, we definitely didn't have a lack of topics, voices, opinions
GRAND RAPIDS - Dematic, a supplier of intra-logistics systems for factories, warehouses and distribution centers, has introduced a new order fulfillment solution, called AMCAP, which automates the palletizing of mixed cases. AMCAP - Automated Mixed Case Palletizing - is a high-performance case palletizing system designed to accommodate the growing need to assemble pallets