ROCHESTER HILLS - Bright Automotive is now hiring to fill 200 jobs in Southeast Michigan over the next year to bring its IDEA concept vehicle to market. The IDEA is an all-new, efficient, plug-in electric hybrid vehicle tailored to the needs of fleet vehicle customers. "Bright Automotive is building a team that is innovative, collaborative
AUBURN HILLS ? ERP Software maker Plex Systems Tuesday announced additional functionality options for its Plex Online customers who use Salesforce.com, creating a fully cloud-based integration of the lead management process. With a range of ERP features in its comprehensive system, Plex Online is already one of the top SaaS / cloud computing manufacturing solutions.
GRAND RAPIDS ? DornerWorks has published the first installment of ARLX to the open source community. ARLX (ARINC 653, Real-Time, Linux on Xen), is a prototype implementation of the ARINC 653 standard using the virtualization technology of the open source Xen hypervisor along with a Linux-based domain as a system partition. By using a common
TROY - An informational meeting regarding the 2011-2012 U.S. Department of Defense-funded scholarship for concentrated studies in information assurance at Walsh College will be held Jan. 12 at the Troy campus. The deadline to apply is Feb. 18. Nan Poulios, director of the Walsh College Information Assurance Center and associate professor, will discuss the application
LANSING - Major General Greg Vadnais, a former division commander who led troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and in the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort, will assume the post of adjutant general and take command of the Michigan National Guard, Gov. Rick Snyder announced Tuesday. In that role, Vadnais (pronounced VAD-nay) will also serve as director
ANN ARBOR ? Technology and business-law attorney Claudia Rast - also a member of the New Enterprise Forum's board - has joined Butzel Long as a shareholder in the firm's Ann Arbor office. Rast, as part of her duties at NEF, coaches technology start-ups in their efforts to connect with management expertise, venture capital, and
DETROIT ? This year's North American International Auto Show, which opens its two-week run on Jan. 10, will serve as a barometer to gauge the health of the world auto industry, predicts Bill Perkins, auto show vice chairman. And Perkins, president of the Perkins Automotive Group in Southeast Michigan, said he expects those barometric readings
AUSTIN, Texas - Dell Tuesday beefed up its security efforts with the acquisition of SecureWorks, a company that provides information-security services. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. With the acquisition, Dell said in a statement that it would use SecureWorks' security-as-a-service applications-managed security, risk consulting and threat intelligence-to bolster its software lineup, CNET News.Com reported.
LANSING ? As earlier reported, Gov. Rick Snyder Tuesday signed an executive order splitting the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality into two separate departments. Executive Order 2011-1, the governor?s first executive order, creates a Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as separately functioning departments so each is
LANSING - Michigan utilities have to provide 10 percent of their power from renewable sources in 2015, and, at their current rate of adopting renewable power, the state's utilities should be able to hit that target, the Public Service Commission announced Tuesday. The report showed Detroit Edison has 44 megawatts of renewable power already in