NEW YORK - Given the explosion of social media onto the public scene, and the considerable buzz about its adoption for business purpose, you might think companies are busily finding a way to use social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter to get customer feedback and improvement customer satisfaction. But you would be wrong.
SAN FRANCISCO - Gerhard Eschelbeck, the chief technology officer at Webroot, pulled out his crystal ball to predict where the security industry seems to be heading in the coming year, and where we anticipate threats and targets. Mobile platforms: If you're reading this, there's a good chance you have either an iPhone, an Android phone,
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's first full day on the job Monday included meetings with Budget Director John Nixon and Michael Finney, head of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Gov. Snyder reiterated in comments on WJR-AM and WWJ-AM that he planned to propose a two-year budget with the goal of having it signed into law
TORRENCE, Ca. - Carmaker Honda is warning more than 2 million of its customers in the U.S. that an e-mail database containing some of their personal information has been stolen. It's not yet 100 percent clear if this breach is connected to the recent breach of the e-mail marketing firm Silverpop Systems, but it sure
NEW YORK - Star Wars-ready holographic calling tops the just released IBM Five in Five list compiled annually in a survey of 3000 researchers who predict five big tech trends for the next five years. Imagine dialing up grandma and having a 3D avatar pop up from the screen. The popularity of video chat services
SAN FRANCISCO - Lookout Mobile Security, which just raised fresh capital to boost its fight against mobile malware, said it has identified the peskiest cell phone threat to date. The Android Trojan, dubbed Geinimi, has cropped up in China and is capable of taking a significant amount of personal data and sending it to remote
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple is being sued for allegedly letting mobile apps on the iPhone and iPad send personal information to ad networks without the consent of users. Jonathan Lalo, who filed the lawsuit on Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., alleges that Apple's iPhones and iPads let ad networks track which
LANSING ? Former Michigan political PR pros Sara and Brad Wurfel are returning from Oregon to take similar jobs in Gov.-elect Rick Snyder's administration. Sara Wurfel will serve as press secretary and her husband, Brad, will serve as director of communications for the Department of Environmental Quality. ?We are so pleased that Sara and Brad
GRAND RAPIDS ? Happy Holidays from MITechNews.Com Editor & Publisher Mike Brennan to all my friends and readers in Michigan and beyond and a prosperous and healthy 2011. Whether you worship God, Buddha, Jehovah, Mohammed, Brahma, or any of the hundreds of other avatars who has returned to our earthly plane to teach us the
DETROIT - Oil-soaked plastic boom material used to soak up oil in the Gulf of Mexico is finding new life as auto parts in the all electric-powered Chevrolet Volt. General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the material off the Alabama and Louisiana coasts and keep it out of