MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - EBay Inc. said it would spin off its Internet-calling business Skype through an initial public offering in the first half of next year, after the online auctioneer faced calls for months to unload the company, which has fallen short of expectations. "Skype is a great stand-alone business with strong fundamentals and
LANSING - Members of the Mid-Michigan Creative Alliance announced plans to open their doors to area businesspeople interested in learning more about the very active and well-respected marketing and advertising community in Lansing. It's all part of the second annual Studio Crawl, which will take place April 23 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Each
DETROIT - A Wayne State University researcher received $127,874 from the National Science Foundation to develop the framework for a network that connects pervasive, embedded sensors that are highly diverse in function, with the ultimate goal of communicating information directly to the Internet. The network sensors, which can be placed virtually anywhere, can detect light
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. - In its' annual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec says it expects that malicious code developers will continue to increasingly adapt attacks in order to evade detection and that some overt attack activities could be abandoned or pushed further underground. Malicious activity will be increasingly pushed to regions with emerging infrastructures that
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - More electronic records were breached in 2008 than the previous four years combined, fueled by a targeting of the financial services industry and a strong involvement of organized crime, according to the 2009 Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report released Wednesday. This second annual study - based on data analyzed from
ROCHESTER HILLS - Michael Thibideau, CIO at Webasto North America, is the ConnecTech Mentor of the Month. To learn more about this mentorship program, which pairs verteran CIOs with up and comers, listen to this Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
TRAVERSE CITY - Brian Hall, vice president of the ConnecTech Grand Traverse Bay chapter, is the April member profile on the ConnecTech Channel. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
AUBURN HILLS - Will Fiat's CEO, Sergio Marchione, become the CEO of Chrysler as well? That's from a report in Italian newspaper La Stampa. Of course, we always knew that Bob Nardelli was brought in by Cerberus to run Chrysler for a limited amount of time, until he got its finances cleaned up. My assumption
YPSILANTI - The Information Assurance program at Eastern Michigan University is sponsoring a special class for Enterprise Incident Response. If you are a network administrator or involved with network security this class is a must for you. Course Description: Principles and practices to address computer incident response for modern enterprise computing environments. Tools, techniques, and
REDMOND - The use of scareware and exploits that take advantage of common file formats like PDF, Excel and Word rose in the second half of last year as online scammers realized people are getting smarter about recognizing spam and phishing e-mails, according to a Microsoft security report released last week. There was a significant