JACKSON - Commerce Guys, developers of the Drupal Commerce e-commerce system, Tuesday announced $5 million in venture funding. Commerce Guys is based in Paris, France, with its North American headquarters in Jackson. The round represents Series A funding for the company and was led by the Paris-based investment firm Alven Capital, an independent venture capital
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Wednesday the selection of Juniper Networks as Ethernet routing and switching hardware vendor for Merit's REACH-3MC broadband stimulus project. Juniper will supply routing and switching equipment for both funding rounds. Terms were not announced. "Merit Network is pleased to announce the selection of Juniper Networks as Ethernet routing and
WASHINGTON DC - Four U.S. senators sound a warning on cybersecurity, comparing our time to the days prior to September 11, 2001-the system is blinking red, and we are failing to connect the dots. Again. Editor's note: This op-ed was co-authored by Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV, (D-W.Va.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. Attorney General says six hackers in the United States and abroad, affiliated with LulSec, Anonymous, and Antisec, have been arrested and charged with crimes. Government agencies have arrested several members of hacker group LulzSec, which has claimed responsibility for attacks on Sony Pictures and Fox's "X-Factor" reality series, charging them
LANSING - Storm On Demand, the cloud hosting arm of managed hosting provider Liquid Web, has announced its latest High Performance hosting product - Storm SSD. In Storm SSD, Storm On Demand has tweaked its Cloud Servers to include Solid State Drives and full redundancy. This innovation sees Storm On Demand increasing the power and
SAN FRANCISCO - CNET has learned that Apple's next tablet will be called the iPad HD instead of the iPad 3. A developer who's previously provided reliable information with respect to things Apple and otherwise tells us the next iPad uses the HD moniker instead of going with "iPad 3." That matches up well with
SAN FRANCISCO - According to Richard A. Clarke's book ?Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do about It,? North Korea, one of the least connected countries in the world, has one of the most advanced cyberwar programs. So how can this be? North Korea has four known cyber warfare units
FLINT - A three-team alliance from Grand Blanc, Auburn Hills and Lansing won the 2012 Kettering University FIRST Robotics District Competition Saturday in Flint. Grand Blanc?s Team 2337, the Enginerds, joined with Auburn Hill?s Team 33, the Killer Bees, and Lansing?s rookie team, Star Trec, Team 4294, to take top competition honors during the district
NOVI - ITC Transmission has selected Iron Mountain-based M.J. Electric LLC to build the first segment of the Thumb Loop high-voltage transmission line. Phase 1 of the double-circuit, 345,000-volt (345 kV) line will extend approximately 62 miles from the site of the new Bauer substation in Tuscola Township, southwestern Tuscola County, to the new Rapson
SAN FRANCISCO - Anonymous continued its ongoing attack on agricultural biotech giant Monsanto by publishing an outdated database of the company's material. This is the newest in a barrage of strikes from hackers aligned with Anonymous who operate under the "AntiSec" banner. In a statement posted with the database on a Pastebin site, the hacktivist