WASHINGTON DC - The Pentagon says it is making progress in developing weapons for its newest battleground - cyberspace - but still faces funding, technology and policy challenges. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Michael Basla, vice commander of Air Force Space Command, told industry officials the service was approaching its work on cyber capability as
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP - General Electric announced in a news conference Monday that it has filled nearly 850 of the targeted 1,300 positions at its Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center in Van Buren Township. ?We?re growing and hundreds of these people work on business activities that take place to support our global operations,? said
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced that it will provide hosted, managed services as part of Internet2's NET+ Services to Internet2 member organizations and InCommon subscribers. As part of a new agreement, services from two major product lines of Merit's services portfolio, Merit Hosted Applications and Merit Hosted Infrastructure, are now also offerings under the
GRAND RAPIDS - When Mark Sellers bought Grand Rapids Brewing Co. last year, he thought he bought all of its assets. But it turns out he had a cybersquatter parked on his website who refused to relinquish the domain name until the squatter, a Grand Rapids Internet promotions company, was paid $2,000. Now Sellers owns
LANSING ? Michigan had two more signs Thursday the economy is improving with the release of Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index and the Michigan Housing Index. Both indexes saw improvement in the state's economy, with the housing index, by the Michigan Association of Home Builders, showing builders saw improvements in the first quarter and
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a controversial Internet surveillance bill, rejecting increasingly vocal arguments from critics that it would do more to endanger Americans' privacy than aid cybersecurity. By a vote of 248 to 168, a bipartisan majority approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, which would
LANSING - It is not the complete removal of the cap the Senate wanted, nor is it the incredibly large cap a House committee approved, but what passed the House unexpectedly Thursday was just enough of an expansion of cyberschools to win support on a 56-54 vote. "House Republicans today approved pro-student, pro-parent education reforms
LANSING - Proponents of legislation that would remove a requirement for lakefront property owners to obtain a permit to groom their beaches criticized Thursday the Department of Environmental Quality's effectiveness in managing the current permitting process. Beachfront owners told the Senate Natural Resources, Environment and Great Lakes Committee they should not be required to get
LANSING ? Michigan House Democrats want to see action on a package of bills that would place a two-year moratorium on the practice of hydraulic fracturing in Michigan and force the companies to disclose what chemicals they will use in the process. The final bill in the package (HB 5565 , HB 5151 , HB
LANSING - March sales were positive, and retailers are expecting that trend to continue the next three months, the Michigan Retailers Association said in releasing its latest Michigan Retail Index on Wednesday. The March performance index, created in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, was 57.8, a result of 49 percent of retailers