REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft is listed fifth in the Top 10 list of the worst spam service ISPs compiled by Spamhaus.org. Spammers are advertising links to sites that ?peddle fake pharmacy products, porn, and Nigerian 419 scams? on Microsoft's Live.com and Livefilestore.com sites because they know that the Microsoft sites won't get blocked by antispam
GRAND RAPIDS - Gill Industries is ramping up an automated production line at its Trenton, Ga., factory to supply steel chassis for a new series of utility vehicles by Club Car that targets the agricultural and outdoor recreation markets. The Trenton facility will have the capacity to fabricate up to 30 frames a day for
BURLINGAME - It's time to go back to basics. Trips to exotic resorts are plunging. Sales of macaroni and cheese are up. And in a digital age, consumers turn not just to familiar foods when the economic news is frightful, but also to friendly digital toys. "It's about trust and comfort at this point," says
NEW YORK - Here's another species endangered by our cratering economy: the basic, mid-priced cellphone. Pinched wallets are putting the so-called feature phone--which includes a camera, Bluetooth, text messaging and Web surfing capabilities--at risk, says Avi Greengart, research director of mobile devices at Current Analysis. Carriers, squeezed by the economy themselves, are passing over their
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Over the past year, the volume of spam e-mail from Web-based mail services like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft's Hotmail and Live Mail has doubled, according to a report to be published in December by e-mail security firm MessageLabs. The culprit? Turing's hypothesis come to life: bots that slip through the
SOUTHFIELD - CA has announced a strategy to streamline IT service management delivery by offering a new set of unified product offerings and software integrations. "CA is changing the way IT service management solutions are delivered by making yesterday's products into today's integrated features and providing clear incremental integration paths to more complete service management,"
AUBURN HILLS - Gibbs Technologies will discuss job openings at its new Oakland County headquarters and describe details of its breakthrough high-speed amphibious-vehicle technology at a Society of Automotive Engineers dinner meeting Dec. 1 at the San Marino Club in Troy. Dennis Bemis, the company�??s vice president of human resources, said Gibbs will have a
WASHINGTON D.C. - Starshowz Corporation has been selected for the 2008 Best of Auburn Hills Award in the Entertainment Bureaus category by the U.S. Local Business Association. The USLBA Best of Local Business Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing
BIRMINGHAM - In a spot survey last week of 270 supplier executives representing 185 companies, 76 percent said they support a federal government bailout of General Motors. Without it, they said they'd have to downsize or close, resulting in over 275,000 people losing jobs at their companies. While the survey focused on GM, 71 percent
WARREN - Survivability Team Leader Heather Molitoris of the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, has received the prestigious Louis Dellamonica Award for Outstanding U.S. Army Materiel Command Personnel of the Year Award for 2007. ?Heather was selected for her outstanding work using many different modeling and simulation [M&S] tools for developing