LANSING - The first ad on November ballot proposals hit the airwaves Tuesday with opponents of Proposal 2008-2 arguing the plan to allow embryonic stem cell research in the state will mean more costs to taxpayers. If the election were held Tuesday, a majority of voters would support a proposal expanding the use of embryonic
WASHINGTON DC - The Great Lakes Compact is one step away from final ratification after the U.S. House voted Tuesday to approve the agreement between the eight Great Lakes states to limit water withdrawals. The measure did not move on without objection. U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) had asked the chamber to hold off its
SAN JOSE - Nearly 70 percent of executives believe that their companies' sensitive information is at risk of data theft. But not all of them are taking the right steps to prevent it, according to a study published earlier today. In a survey of more than 1,300 corporate executives -- 54 percent of whom have
MIAMI - Mortgage giant Countrywide Financial earlier this month informed as many as 2 million customers their personal data, including social security numbers, may have been stolen. The data was allegedly stolen from the mortgage company's computer system. The information was being sold to mortgage brokers as sales leads. The breach was one of the
NEW YORK - Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said earlier this month. It's unclear how long the site has been compromised and there is no
WARREN - Two U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center projects -HMMWV Egress Assistance Trainer and the HMMWV Monster Garage Program - won 2008 Army Research and Development Achievement (RDA) Awards. TARDEC engineers from each project include: Kenneth Essig, Michael Krause, Peter Pfister and James Revello, who worked on the HEAT project -
LAS VEGAS - Symantec Corp. has announced the latest versions of Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery that now includes comprehensive data protection and recovery of virtual and physical systems. Backup Exec 12.5 now offers data protection for VMware ESX Server and Microsoft's Hyper-V Systems. Features include the ability to take one agent to
LANSING - More than one year's effort to enact major changes to the state's utility regulation system and to establish a renewable portfolio standard for the development of alternative energy sources finally reached completion Thursday as the Legislature approved compromises on HB 5524 and SB 213 . The conference reports on HB 5524 were approved
LANSING - State-backed loans to farms would be separated from the grant program for horse racing under legislation approved Thursday by the Senate Agriculture Committee. The panel also approved a new fund to support alternative fuel research through an income tax checkoff. The state already has a guaranteed loan program for farms, but under SB
TROY - Encryption Security Solutions/Pure Entropy Tecnhologies has opened a full service sales office in Grand Ledge in Mid Michigan. Overseeing the operations is Thor Kolemainen. Most recently Kolemainen served as Regional Sales Manager for a national company where he was responsible for overseeing the sales/marketing efforts of a five state region. "We are pleased