TRAVERSE CITY - Plex Systems, provider of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, will be the exclusive corporate sponsor of social media and the manufacturing sessions on August 6, 2012 at the Center for Automotive Research 2012 Management Briefing Seminars. The seminars will take place August 6-9 in Traverse City. The event has been an
ANN ARBOR - Internet2 announced James (Jim) Bottum, chief information officer and vice provost for computing & information technology at Clemson University, as the Inaugural Presidential Fellow, effective immediately. ?With Jim?s long history of involvement in high performance computing, higher education, and governmental agencies, he is a natural fit to work with Internet2 in building
DETROIT - Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index jumped 1.9 points in May, to 103.9, 73 percent above the index cyclical low of 59.9 during the recent recession. The index has averaged 102 points in the first five months of 2012, 11 points above the index average for all of 2011. "The economic recovery of
TROY - The nomination due date for the Automation Alley 12th Annual Awards Gala has been extended by two days to 5 p.m. Thursday. New this year: Online voting. After the finalists have been announced, online voting will be open for two weeks. The Awards Gala is one of Southeast Michigan's most prestigious events honoring
KALAMAZOO - Physicians at medical centers in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids are helping to identify interested individuals for participation in a clinical trial of a novel drug therapy for patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. MSDC-0160, a new drug which is also being developed as a treatment for diabetes by Kalamazoo-based Metabolic Solutions Development
FENTON - Digital marketing agency, 3Sixty Interactive, has added The DM Burr Group as a client for website management, search engine optimization, pay per click advertising, social and email marketing. Before signing with 3Sixty Interactive, The DM Burr Group had tried a number of online marketing companies and tools including pay per click advertising, social
NEW YORK - Computer-security experts took down the world's third-largest botnet, which they say was responsible for 18 percent of the world's spam. Command-and-control servers in Panama and the Netherlands pumping out up to 18 billion spam messages a day for the Grum botnet were taken down Tuesday, but the botnet's architects set up new
WASHINGTON D.C. - In a move to get cybersecurity legislation approved before the Senate recess, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and four colleagues introduced a modified version of their proposed cybersecurity legislation that adds privacy protections for consumers and removes government mandated security standards. Republicans had opposed the initial version of the Democrat-backed bill, introduced in
WASHINGTON D.C. - A U.S. policy report says Congress should preempt certain state and federal regulations in order to allow companies the freedom to share with the government information about cyber security threats and attacks without fear of breaking data breach and other laws. More information sharing is needed between companies and government agencies in
LAS VEGAS - Computer geeks attending the world's largest annual hacking party in Las Vegas this week will have a rare chance to rub shoulders with the head of the U.S. National Security Agency. General Keith Alexander, director of the spy agency, will speak at the Defcon conference, marking the highest-level visit to date by