BURLINGAME, Calif. - Everyone knows traditional landline telephones are becoming less important, what with the rise of both mobile phones as well as free or low-cost Web-based telephony products like Skype. Who knew, though, that it was happening this quickly? A new study suggests nearly a quarter of U.S. households are without landline phones, having
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft has announced Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, as well as Visio 2010 and Project 2010 is now available for business customers worldwide. At this stage, many users are already familiar with the products. Microsoft's Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 beta programs were the largest ever, with three times the number
DETROIT ? Wayne State University is offering a FastTrac to the Future for Entrepreneurs, a two-day introduction to various training available, on May 25-26. Randal Charlton, TechTown Executive Director, outlines what training is available in this Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Republicans moved Wednesday toward a budget that slashes funding for local governments, roads and economic development programs, the 21st Century Jobs Fund and the Pure Michigan advertising campaign - but doesn't raise taxes. Financially battered local governments would suffer another blow under a budget plan approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee
LANSING - An audit heavily critical of the state's main economic development program has actually helped the Michigan Economic Development Corporation as it's been revising its own audit procedures, MEDC CEO Greg Main told a House panel Wednesday, even though the audit has resulted in some "adverse publicity" for the state. Main told the House
ANN ARBOR ? An industrial energy education center is coming to the University of Michigan courtesy a $765,500 grant from the state through the US Department of Energy. UM's Michigan Industrial Energy Center will provide education and a certification program to train industrial energy managers in specific strategies for how to save energy. The MIEC
DETROIT - A Wayne State University spinoff company is highlighted in a national report that shows how investment in basic research leads to innovation and job creation. The report, "Sparking Economic Growth: How federally funded university research creates innovation, new companies and jobs," released by The Science Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of 45 of
LANSING - Managed web hosting company, Liquid Web, has added a new feature for its cloud computing platform - Storm On Demand - called Storm Bare Metal, which allows users to provision and manage private dedicated servers with Cloud Hosting features. Storm Bare Metal is a server technology that allows users to provision and manage
SAN FRANCISCO - With Facebook's security and privacy standards under fire from all sides, suffice it to say that this is not a good time for one of the company's investors to fall for a Facebook phishing scam. On Saturday evening, a Facebook event invitation was sent to some of the over 2,300 friends of
ANN ARBOR - Accuri Cytometers, which produes a bench-top flow cytometer, and eBioscience, the No. 2 supplier of research flow cytometry reagents, on Monday announced they have signed a worldwide co-marketing agreement. The collaboration is designed to offer scientists a better and more comprehensive solution for their flow cytometry research needs, harnessing the cost-effectiveness, ease-of-use,