WASHINGTON DC - America's cyber czar, despite the impressive title, may not be such a coveted job after all. As early as this week, President Obama is expected to appoint a national cybersecurity adviser, who will report to the oval office and run the White House's efforts to defend the government from hackers and cyberspies.
DETROIT - Ruthanne Largent, CIO at the MGM Grand Detroit, is the ConnecTech July Mentor of the Month. To hear about this innovative program, listen to this special ConnecTech edition of Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
GRAND RAPIDS - MITechNews.Com is encouraging all its readers and listeners to help a Michigan Entrepreneur achieve national recognition. Michelle Crumm of the Ann Arbor-based fuel cell company Adaptive Materials is one of five finalists nationally for Entrepreneur magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year award. She also is a board member of Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest.
ANN ARBOR - Give Camp, a partnership between the local developer community, Microsoft, Washtenaw Community College, Domino?s Pizza, and Verio, will be held in Ann Arbor July 17-19. Michigan Give Camp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for local non-profit organizations. Developers and
SALINE - Sun Engineering, a Saline-based consulting engineering company, has launched its new company Web site, built by DesignHub of Saline. Highlighting the new SunEngineering Web Site are case studies that demonstrate how Sun Engineering supports engineering teams at every stage of product design and engineering - from initial concepts and designs through prototyping, testing,
FARMINGTON HILLS - ZenaComp, a full-service technology firm for small to medium size businesses and municipalities, announced it has met Microsoft's Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Competency requirements. The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Competency is designed for partners that specialize in infrastructure solutions such as storage and systems management; this competency provides the information, tools, and support customers
SOUTHFIELD - Secure-24, a provider of managed hosting for enterprise and mid-sized companies, announced the selection of DataGlobal's Enterprise Resource Suite storage and information management software for the optimizing of customer's storage resources. A fully integrated and ITIL compliant solution, ERS combines detailed views of storage usage and application performance metrics with enhanced controls for
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan launched a totally redesigned Web site at that includes a new free online membership community, daily blogs, podcasts and videos, social networking, online tools to improve business efficiency and a dynamic legislative action section. ?We are planning to use the power of this new Web site to
DALLAS - AT&T announced Friday its AT&T Small Biz Tech Makeover contest for businesses nationwide. To thank entrepreneurs and small business owners for their continued support of and interaction with AT&T's online resource center, AT&T is sponsoring an online contest for small businesses to win a technology overhaul for their business. Contest prizes include Web
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University has been chosen by Cisco Systems as the only university in Michigan to pilot its Workforce Retraining Initiative. President Barack Obama highlighted this important initiative in a speech at a Town Hall meeting at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan on Tuesday. Three Michigan community colleges - Henry Ford Community