DETROIT ? Wayne State University's TechTown will disclose the details of its Thrive business accelerator model during its monthly First Friday networking event Nov. 5 at NextEnergy. "Over the summer, we purposefully turned everything upside down, setting aside the success we've experienced with training hundreds of entrepreneurs through programs such as SmartStart and FastTrac," said
GRAND RAPIDS ? The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum is meeting Nov. 8 at Fountain Street Church where Liz McCormick and Bill Fluharty will present on a local initiative to explore urban agriculture and regional food systems, the topic recently explored by a newly created open source community learning platform called the Keller Futures Center.
CUPERTINO - Apple has acknowledged a newly-discovered security flaw in the iPhone and is promising to offer a fix with next month's release of iOS 4.2. The new flaw allows someone to access the phone dialer on a locked iPhone by punching a certain sequence of buttons, thereby giving them the ability to make phone
CUPERTINO - A new Trojan horse malware that affects Mac OS X has been uncovered by Macintosh Security site SecureMac. The Trojan is called "trojan.osx.boonana.a" and is being disguised as a video and distributed through social-networking sites like Facebook. The Trojan horse appears as a link on people's Facebook pages that may have the text
WASHINGTON - A majority 61 percent of Americans polled by Unisys for a new security study believes the president should have the power to control or effectively "kill" portions of the Internet if key U.S. systems (military, financial, electrical) were hit by a malicious cyberattack from a foreign government. These findings from the latest biannual
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Mozilla is advising fans of Firefox to update the stable version of the browser after it released a patch for a security bug last week marked "critical." Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Firefox 3.6.12 patches a heap buffer overflow that could allow for remote code execution. Mozilla notes that the bug
CLINTON TOWNSHIP - Steve Wozniak, developer of the groundbreaking Apple II personal computer and co-founder of the Apple Computer company, will share his experiences in the early personal computer industry and talk about the importance of education in nurturing entrepreneurship during a Nov. 12 visit to Macomb Community College. Wozniak's visit is part of the
LANSING - Two new clean energy projects approved under the Centers of Energy Excellence program will focus on clean energy manufacturing and solar power. The program brings companies, academic institutions, national labs and the state together to support cutting-edge research and development and pioneer new clean energy technology. ?Michigan is acting boldly to be the
DEARBORN ? Clean Emission Fluids, an alternative energy company, was named the winner of the TiECon Midwest Business Plan Competition Thursday night at the entrepreneurial event held at the Henry Hotel in Dearborn. The company gets an audience with The First Step Fund, which provides emerging companies with access to capital, focused mentoring in areas
LANSING ? Michigan Republicans are poised for a landslide win that could sweep Democrats from power in state government, according to two polls released Thursday. A poll conducted by EPIC/MRA showed GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Snyder with a 55 percent to 37 percent lead over Democrat Virg Bernero. That survey essentially squared with a Glengariff