STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide PC shipments totaled 87.5 million units in the third quarter of 2012, a decline of 8.3 percent compared with the third quarter of 2011, according to preliminary results by Gartner. "A continuing slowdown in consumer PC shipments played a big part in the overall PC market decline," said Mikako Kitagawa, principal
MARQUETTE -Verizon Wireless has chosen Marquette as its symbolic 400th 4G LTE market because it represents the growth of the nation's largest 4G LTE network beyond America's largest and medium-sized market. Verizon Wireless operates the nation's largest 4G LTE network. The company serves 94.2 million retail customers, including 88.8 million retail postpaid customers. Headquartered in
ANN ARBOR - NanoBio Corporation has promoted David Peralta to chief executive officer. Peralta, who previously served as the company?s chief operating and financial officer, replaces James R. Baker, Jr. M.D., who recently joined Merck & Co. as the senior vice president, head global vaccine franchise. As the scientific founder and inventor of NanoBio?s patented
EAST LANSING ? Registration is open for the 2012 MichBio Expo, Michigan?s largest annual gathering of bioscience leaders, scheduled for Nov. 7-8 at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center at Michigan State University. The annual event typically attracting about 450-500 attendees. Keynote Speaker is Teresa Stanek Rea, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
LANSING - As firearm deer hunting season approaches in Michigan ? and with many other seasons already under way ? the Department of Natural Resources is offering hunters and outdoor enthusiasts to begin their experience with MI-Hunt. Mi-HUNT, originally released in 2010, is a cutting-edge application that displays multiple layers of information, which can be
DETROIT ? Registration is now open for the 2012 Michigan Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference scheduled for Oct. 26 at Wayne State University?s McGregor Memorial Conference Center. The conference showcases how green chemistry and engineering are contributing to revitalization in manufacturing by using less toxic materials in the design and production of goods. ?Michigan is
LANSING - Voters overwhelmingly say they will consider each of the five constitutional amendments on the November ballot one by one and not simply reject them en masse, according to a poll commissioned by Gongwer News Service. Once five constitutional amendments were certified for the ballot, discussion began about whether voters might simply decide to
DETROIT - General Motors announced Tuesday it is opening an Information Technology Innovation Center in Warren and expects to hire up to 1,500 high-tech employees over the next several years to support the company's new approach to IT services. The GM Michigan Innovation Center is the second of four planned Innovation Centers in the United
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan is ranked No. 20 in the world, according to the World University Rankings 2012-2013. U-M was ranked No. 18 in the 2011 survey. The annual list ranks the top 400 universities and is based on 13 performance indicators separated into five categories: teaching, research, citations, industry income and
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder was joined by top Democratic and Republican officials on Tuesday to denounce the proposal that would require a two-thirds legislative majority vote or a statewide vote to increase taxes as merely a special interest initiative and that would hurt the state as a whole. "This is simply bad public policy.