SAN FRANCISCO - Users of the iOS app called Signal can now encrypt their text messages and their phone calls for free. Version 2.0, released Monday adds the ability to send free end-to-end encrypted messages to people across the world. Your messages can include text, pictures and videos, which are all encrypted to thwart people
LANSING - The much-discussed electric capacity gap that will arrive in 2016 in the Lower Peninsula affects the reserve available and would not mean immediate shortages, an official with the Mid-Continent Independent System Operator said Wednesday. Melissa Seymour, regional executive for state and customer affairs at MISO, told the House Energy Policy Committee on Wednesday
LANSING - A bill that would eliminate the state's film incentive program cleared the House Tax Policy Committee on Wednesday, and the chair said it will be voted on the by full chamber soon. HB 4122 was sent to the House floor on an 8-3 party-line vote with Rep. Michael Webber (R-Rochester Hills) and Rep.
SAN FRANCISCO ? 2014 was the worst year yet for the spread of malware contends a new report that noted 75 million samples of malicious code were detected and eliminated. They also expect 2015 to be even worse. The Spanish cyber security company, Panda Security, released its report Monday. Panda said only 30 million new
LANSING - Sen. Goeff Hansen is supportive of Governor Rick Snyder's budget proposal dedicating millions of dollars to funding programs to promote career and technical education, but he also wants to ensure measurable success for that funding over time. "I agree with career tech, I agree with moving towards making it more applicable to the
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio, the state?s life sciences trade association, has posted five new jobs in its data bank, including located in Michigan. Research Scientist Xoran Technologies LLC - Ann Arbor Position will design and develop computed tomography (CT) scanners based on new flat-panel detectors, while insuring superior image quality. Provide technical research, review and
DETROIT - To help app designers and developers put out the best product possible, Mobile Monday Detroit, is presenting a panel of Michigan-based experts who will provide information on creating useful and intuitive user experiences, ensuring security of user data, and overcoming the design challenges of the multi-platform and multi-device environment. Speakers will include: Jodi
BARCELONA - Tom Wheeler, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, Wednesday defended his agency's move to regulate the Internet, ensuring that broadband players would be unaffected by his light touch approach to the rules. "This is no more regulating the Internet than the First Amendment regulates free speech in our country," Wheeler said in
DETROIT - The Varnum law firm will open its sixth office and second in Southeast Michigan in the Federal Reserve Building in downtown Detroit. The office space is currently undergoing build out and is expected to open in the second quarter of 2015. For the past nine years, Varnum has served clients in the Metro
SAN FRANCISCO - A newly discovered encryption flaw known as FREAK attack left users of Apple's Safari and Google's Android browsers vulnerable to hackers for more than a decade, researchers told the Washington Post. Users of the browsers were vulnerable to having their electronic communications intercepted when visiting any of hundreds of thousands of websites,