GRAND RAPIDS - New findings from Van Andel Research Institute scientists could lead to environmentally-friendly sprays that help plants survive drought and other stresses in harsh environments to combat global food shortages. The study is a follow-up to findings published in Nature last year that were named among the top breakthroughs of 2009 by Science
KALAMAZOO - InterCom, a Kalamazoo-based association of professional communicators, continues its 22nd season with a luncheon presentation on October 8 that will explore outdoor advertising. The presentation ? "Outdoor (Billboards) 101," with Adams Outdoor Sales Manager Wendy Hickey ? will take place from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Regional Chamber of Commerce Building at
LANSING ? Ken Theis, the Director of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget and the state's Chief Information Officer, will take a new job on Oct. 1 - as Chief Operating Officer for technology consultant Dewpoint Inc. Before his 12-years of service with the State of Michigan, Theis worked 10 years at General
ANN ARBOR -The University of Michigan ranks first in research and development spending among the nation's public universities and colleges, according to the latest rankings from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The rankings, announced by the agency on Monday, show that U-M moved up two positions, passing the University of California, San Francisco, and the
TROY - Walsh College is designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security. Walsh is the only school in Michigan that maps to five of the CNSS standards. Nationwide, NSA has designated only 100 schools as Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE). Walsh
ANN ARBOR - Gluu, which helps companies implement federated identity, has become an InCommon Affiliate. InCommon is the U.S. trust federation in higher education and is an operating unit of Internet2. Through InCommon, higher education institutions and their partners offer access to contracted and collaborative services ? in a privacy- and security-enhanced method ? to
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - I've been seeing demos of credit cards with rewritable magnetic stripes since I started covering start-ups in 1998, but it appears that Dynamics is going to be the first company to actually get this technology into the hands of consumers. At Demo Fall 2010, I saw a quick (and, to be
NEW YORK - Call me your e-mail security guinea pig. The other day I was talking to Hugh Thompson, adjunct professor of software security at Columbia University and founder of consultancy People Security, about his research related to online privacy and he mentioned how easy it can be to hijack someone's e-mail account. So, I
SAN FRANCISCO - A third of small and medium businesses surveyed by Panda Security have been hit by malware from social networks, according to a study released on Wednesday. Panda's "Social Media Risk Index for Small to Medium Sized Businesses" also found that 35 percent of the companies hurt by social-media malware suffered financial losses,
SAN FRANCISCO - The developer of a software tool to help Iranians get around their government's Internet restrictions has withdrawn the program in response to questions about its security. Haystack said it had halted further testing of the program in Iran while it conducts a review. "If you have a copy of the test program,