TRAVERSE CITY - Electric transmission facilities are currently designed to get power from power plants to local communities. But with the growth of alternative energy, those transmission systems need to expand to pass power around states, regions and the nation, officials told the Mid-American Regulatory Conference Tuesday. The nation's current electric grid is still based
TRAVERSE CITY - Michigan and Ohio have the opportunity to provide more power than they need just from offshore wind turbines, according to recent studies. And Ohio could have the first turbines on the lakes given the progress on projects and applications. But there are still some questions on the cost and viability of such
LANSING - Michigan.Gov has a whole new look. A revamped homepage for the state went live over the weekend. Redesigned after Department of Information Technology officials conducted focus groups with the general public and with the age group most connected to the Internet, young people (in this case, students at Michigan State University). As a
TRAVERSE CITY - Utilities are seeing unpaid bills and disconnections increase, and they are seeing those delinquencies from higher income customers, utility officials told those gathered for the Mid-American Regulatory Conference. But, while utilities are covering some of the efforts to assist those customers now, those efforts will have to move back to the government
WASHINGTON - On June 15, the SBA began accepting loans for a temporary new program called America's Recovery Capital - loans of up to $35,000 designed to provide a bridge for viable small businesses with immediate financial hardship - to keep their doors open until they get back on track. "These ARC loans are another
TRAVERSE CITY - With coming changes in energy sources and costs, utilities and regulators are going to have to work together to ensure the new technology is implemented and customers are not buried by the costs, regulators and utility officials told the Mid-American Regulatory Conference on Monday. The cost of generating power is increasing as
PALO ALTO, Ca. - The application landscape has changed over the years and yet the firewall hasn't. With this in mind, Palo Alto Networks is telling customers and channel partners its' new PAN-OS 3.0 software for its firewalls is designed to supersede the 'find it and kill it' model other security technologies are based upon.
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Trend Micro has unveiled a new release of its data loss prevention (DLP) solution, LeakProof 5.0, with added features and benefits designed to reduce the complexity and cost often associated with the discovery, monitoring and blocking of sensitive data. LeakProof is designed to protect information such as customer and employee data,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee has tied its next generation of firewall products into its ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) management software. The security vendor has also opened up ePO to integrate third-party partners' products into the management frame. McAfee Firewall Enterprise (formerly Sidewinder), McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Center and McAfee Firewall Enterprise Profiler were designed to
EAST LANSING ? Kinetic Wave Power, which harnesses the power of ocean waves to generate electricity, was named the grand prize winner Thursday night at the Great Lakes Entrepreneurs Quest spring 2009 business-plan competition. Kinetic Wave Power won $25,000. Kinetic Wave Power won the Emerging Business Category, after best five other finalists in the elevator