DETROIT - The U.S. Small Business Administration honored the Detroit participants in its Emerging 200 Initiative at a graduation ceremony on November 17. SBA's e200 program identified 200 inner-city businesses across the nation that demonstrated a high potential for growth. Selected companies participated in a free, six month course of in-depth business education focused on
SAN FRANCISCO - VeriSign, which runs the master database for such domains as .com and .net, says a significant Internet security vulnerability will be closed by 2011, after delays caused by technical aspects of the implementation. The problem is that DNS, the Domain Name System that translates Internet addresses into numerical values, can be seeded
ANN ARBOR - Ana Preston, Internet2's current Director for Regional and State Network Relations, and interim Director for International Relations, has been named Internet2?s new Executive Director for Member Relations and Communications . Her new appointment will begin December 1. In this role, Preston will assume management responsibility for the organization?s member engagement and communications
NEW YORK - Staffing levels in IT will remain the same in 2010 as they are now according to a recent survey conducted by Hay Group, the global management consulting firm. Sixty-nine percent of CIOs said their staffing levels will be unchanged in 2010, indicating a 'bottoming out' of staff reductions in IT. "Combined with
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - A new report undertaken by ICSA Labs to mark its' twentieth anniversary contains some dispiriting news for security vendors, and some alarming news for customers. Nearly 80 percent of security products fail to perform as intended when first tested and generally require two or more cycles of testing before achieving certification. The
TROY - Automation Alley, Southeast Michigan's largest technology business association, announced that the initial results from its recent trade mission to Israel have exceeded expectations. "We received a warm reception from the firms with which we met, and are building a network with those interested in facilitating business between Michigan and Israel," said Steven Cole
NEW YORK - IBM researchers have cooked up a quick medical diagnostic testing system based on a silicon chip that can get by on a small sample and test for multiple diseases. The breakthrough to be announced Tuesday means that physicians can test a patient immediately following a heart attack to improve survival rates, CNET
STAMFORD, Conn. - Global semiconductor sales are now expected to fall this year by 11 percent - an improvement over the previous estimate of a 17 percent drop, according to research released Monday by Gartner. And the outlook for 2010 is sunny. Revenue is projected to drop this year to $226 billion, an 11.4 percent
WASHINGTON - Words like "scam," "fraud," and "arrest" filled the air during a Senate hearing on Tuesday that focused on the controversial marketing companies that allegedly dupe consumers into paying monthly fees to join online loyalty programs. Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion generated more than $1.4 billion by "misleading" Web shoppers, said members of the U.S.
LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Tuesday the next step in her efforts to consolidate state government with the merger of the departments of Management and Budget and Information Technology. Granholm said the executive order to detail the change would not be issued for a couple Of weeks, but she said DIT Director Ken Theis