Ann Arbor - Meadowlark Builders will feature two remodel projects at the Remodelers Home Tour on October 9-11, including Michigan's second Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design project. The first project is in its first phase of a full remodel/addition. As part of this project, Meadowlark Builders designed long-term goals for the entire house with
ANN ARBOR - The Detroit area could lose more jobs in 2009 than it has during the previous decade, but the economy could start to improve staring in 2010, two economists from the University of Michigan said Friday. That doesn't mean the region will see job growth next year, said George Fulton and Donald Grimes,
ANN ARBOR - Business executive Rick Snyder has taken plenty of risks and had success when others deemed his task undoable. That attitude, one of a venture capitalist that sees an investment where others see failure, instead of the thinking that comes with a long career in politics, is one of the biggest reasons Snyder
DETROIT - AT&T has introduced its 3G mobile broadband network in Mount Pleasant, Muskegon and Traverse City, providing area business and residential customers access to accelerated data speeds that open the door to a new era of mobile services, devices and feature-rich audio and video content. The addition of 3G technology to more than 75
SAN FRANCISCO - Web 2.0 sites that enable people to create content are increasingly used to carry out a wide range of attacks, according to a new security study. Websense's State of Internet Security, released Tuesday, notes that attackers are focusing their attention on interactive Web 2.0 elements. Some 95 percent of user-generated comments on
SAN FRANCISCO - Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a U.S.-based bank that launches a live chat window where victims are tricked into revealing more information, researchers at the RSA FraudAction Research Team said on Wednesday. After a user accesses the phishing site, the chat window messages come through the browser and
LANSING - Gov. Jennifer Granholm is prepared to "assert her constitutional authority," administration sources said Thursday, and while no one would say the governor would outright veto an agreement cutting the 2009-10 general fund budget by $1.2 billion, they did say the agreement is not likely to take effect in its current form. Officials said
WASHINGTON - The government has proposed changing its ban on tracking how consumers use government web sites by using cookies, the Washington Post has reported. A two-week public comment period ended Monday on a proposal by the White House Office of Management and Budget to end a ban on federal Internet sites using such technologies
WASHINGTON - The Internet is arguably the most significant technological development of our time. It has changed the way we communicate, the way we learn, and the way we see things. It brings previously isolated and disparate information to our fingertips, almost instantaneously, and has become the primary means by which we conduct business and
WASHINGTON DC - The 2009 Annual National InfraGard Congress will be held October 14 by Secure Video Teleconference with FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has been invited to provide opening remarks. The video teleconference starts at 11 am EDT and closes by 5 pm. The InfraGard National Members Alliance will broadcast from the SVTC