SAN FRANCICSCO - Mozilla released a new Firefox 4 prototype late Monday that builds in support for Google's WebM video technology and several other changes planned for the open-source Web browser's next major version. With WebM, Google hopes to liberate Web video from patent-related royalty constraints of today's prevailing video compression technology, H.264. Mozilla and
EAST LANSING ? SanoBio Therapeutics, an Ann Arbor-based biopharmaceutical company commercializing a therapeutic peptide for the treatment of diabetic ulcers, was runner up in the New Business Category at the Great Lakes Entrepreneurs Quest contest, winning $2,500. The company also picked up another $5000 from the MEDC as a biotech entrepreneur award winner. To listen,
EAST LANSING ? In-Pore Technologies won the inaugural $100,000 SmartZone Award at the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business plan writing contest awards program, the top prize in a night when $250,000 in checks were handed out. The SmartZone Award, sponsored by the Michigan SmartZones and funded through the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, a program of
BIRMINGHAM - After a five month period of editing, indexing, and finally printing Surviving Cyberwar has been published by Government Institutes, an imprint of Scarecrow Press, a division of the Rowman and Littlefield company. Here is the story of how and why I wrote a book on cyberwar. The very first presentation I gave as
BIRMINGHAM - In 2001 Ralph Bendrath, a German cyber security writer and researcher, wrote a report that dug into the efficacy of the use of the term cyberwar. His report is remarkable in that most of what he covers ten years ago represents today's state of affairs. Bendrath was writing before 9/11, at the end
STAMFORD, Conn. - While security risks are not going away for companies, efficient and secure enterprises will actually safely reduce the share of security spending by 3 to 6 percent of their overall IT budgets through 2011, according to research and analyst firm Gartner. Organizations with very mature and recently updated security programs will be
ANN ARBOR - Exactly one year after purchasing a 174-acre research campus formerly used for advanced pharmaceutical development, the University of Michigan has selected the leader who will steer the site's transformation into a vibrant home for academic and private-sector research. And for that leader, it will also be a homecoming. David Canter, a physician,
ANN ARBOR - The Wolverine Venture Fund, managed by The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, announced participation in a follow-on round of early stage financing for Intelligent Clearing Network. The financing round was led by Early Stage Partners, a longtime supporter
LANSING - Five members of the Michigan Education Association have filed a lawsuit against the state that accuses the Legislature and Gov. Jennifer Granholm of violating several laws when they enacted the public school employee retirement legislation. The lawsuit challenges the legality of the law's requirement that public school employees who do not take advantage
LANSING - It is turning into an "upward climb" to get the Legislature to move on a proposal to encourage state workers to retire, Gov. Jennifer Granholm told reporters Tuesday, but winning approval of that proposal is preferable to cutting funding to schools. Granholm rejected allegations from some Democratic House members that the proposal, which