SAN FRANCISCO - The Syrian Electronic Army apparently took control over the Twitter.com Web site address record Tuesday, the hacker group's latest attack on high-profile Internet sites. The Twitter.com whois record, which lists the owner of the Web address names called domains, listed the owner's e-mail address as [email protected]. The site continued to function, however.
LANSING - The Michigan Film Office could spend up to 70 percent of its 2014 fiscal year budget on a film incentive for the latest Superman-Batman combination film starring Ben Affleck, but it also expects to have some $10 million from the current fiscal year budget to put toward the mega project, Director Margaret O'Brien
EAST LANSING ? Who says STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) lack interest for today's college students. Michigan State University Wednesday reported its College of Engineering entering class more than doubled from 2006. Leo Kempel, acting dean of the MSU College of Engineering, greeted freshmen and transfer students during opening ceremonies of the 2013 Colloquium
GRAND RAPIDS - Lambert, Edwards & Associates has been recognized as one of the nation's leading investor relations firms, earning 2013 Financial Agency of the Year in the Bulldog Stars of PR Awards. The nationally renowned awards, judged by journalists and hosted by industry trade journal, Bulldog Reporter, recognize outstanding achievement by communications agencies and
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday issued a report showing its net metering and solar pilot program saw a 55 percent increase over 2011, with wind net metering following. The report noted that the number of net metering customers increased from 1,015 in 2011 to 1,330 in 2012. The total size of the
WARREN - The Michigan Business and Professional Association is offering a no cost service to its members to help them comply with the Affordable Care Act. The Act requires employer to provide all employees with a notice regarding the Health Insurance Marketplace by October 1. MBPA is making the required notice available through its electronic
LANSING - After conducting a Women's Health and Economic Security Task Force during the summer, the Michigan House Democrats said at a news conference on Monday they will continue their work on policies designed to help women overcome hurdles in the work force and with health care access. Rep. Marcia Hovey-Wright (D-Muskegon), who co-chaired the
GRAND RAPIDS - Researchers from Michigan State University, Van Andel Institute and Sweden are closer to developing new drugs that target Parkinson's disease. The researchers have shown significant associations between high levels of pro-inflammatory markers in cerebrospinal fluid and severity of fatigue, depression, anxiety and cognitive impairment in individuals with Parkinson?s disease. ?We hypothesized that
ANN ARBOR - LLamasoft, a supply chain design software provider, and ALK Technologies, specialists in GeoLogistics and navigation software, on Tuesday announced a partnership to offer ALK?s PCMILER routing, mileage and mapping software solution to LLamasoft customers for use in supply chain design. The partnership provides customers an industry-recognized means to accurately calculate distance and
DETROIT - Unitrends, which provides backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solutions in Michigan, on Tuesday announced it is giving away a free version of its software-only backup and recovery virtual appliance. The Unitrends Enterprise Backup is offered for the unlicensed version of VMWare vSphere Hypervisor. This solution also enables VMware to compete with