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
DETROIT - On this month's anniversary of 9/11, it is only fitting that InfraGard takes a moment to reflect on the event that was possibly the single greatest catalyst to the development of the security organization. While there are tons of websites that contain information about the terrorist attacks and subsequent reaction of the United
LANSING - Data Center Liquid Web has completed a new data center video tour that is featured on Liquidweb.com. The new Data Center video was built using the latest in high definition video technology and state of the art production methods to provide a life like simulation of a physical data center walk through. The
SANTA CLARA, Ca. -McAfee has announced McAfee Artemis Technology that uses a new Internet-based service hosted by McAfee Avert Labs to provide active protection on the fly when a computer gets hit by malicious computer code. "[Artemis] redefines how malware protection is delivered to customers out in the field," said Dave Marcus, security research and
LANSING - Two bills proponents say will give the Michigan attorney general more guidance in determining if consumers have been grossly overcharged for a product were debated in committee and overwhelmingly passed by the House Wednesday, as representatives of petroleum dealers, wholesalers and retailers argued that, while the bills may provide more clarity, the legislation
LANSING - Acting unanimously, the Michigan House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday gave its approval to Senate-passed bills providing incentives to bio-fuel development and use, including tax incentives to service stations installing equipment for E-85 and other vehicle fuels made with biomass material. Most discussion centered on SB 1196 , with the Department of Treasury and
LANSING - The University Research Corridor, made up of Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, educated more students than other comparative research clusters around the country and moved up in the comparative number of patents issued. But it moved down in the relative amount of research investment, according to a
WASHINGTON - Homeland Security is weathering a deluge of criticism of its lackluster cybersecurity efforts on grounds that they have proven to be inefficient, bureaucratic, and not even able to do a decent job of monitoring federal computer networks. This week, it even led to what would have been unthinkable a year or two ago--a
INDIANAPOLIS - Fortinet thas announced that two rogue security applications, AntiVirus XP 2008 and XP Security Center, have claimed the top two positions in Fortinet's Top 10 most reported threats for August 2008 with nearly 20 per cent of the month's activities. "They try to entice users that they are legitimate security applications like virus