LANSING - Consumers Energy customers will see a rate increase next month, but not as much as the utility had requested. Business customers will see even less of a hike as their support of residential customer rates is removed. The order (case No. U-15245) provides an overall 2 percent increase, or about $27.47 million annually.
SAN FRANCISCO ? Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, on Monday took the wraps off the next generation iPhone that will use third-generation or 3G wireless technology, which will transmit data about three times faster than the dial-up speeds offered earlier on the EDGE Network. The new iPhone also will support Microsoft?s Office software, including Word, Excel
OKEMOS - TechSmith has released SnagIt 9 with new features, design and performance capabilities that lets computer user to quickly turn simple screenshots into visual communication tools. With SnagIt 9, customers can quickly capture, edit and share any image, including scrolling windows, objects, menus, video, text, and Web pages and include them in emails and
MILFORD - General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz says his very first drive of a Chevrolet Volt development vehicle left him thrilled with what represents a radical break from the past. Barely 14 months after debuting as a concept at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, the Chevrolet Volt passed a major milestone on its way
LANSING - The Michigan Great Lakes Restoration Initiative that will be developed by the end of the year will be a blueprint for the state to expand its work on improving the condition of the lakes. But the initiative will also be a tool to seek funding from the incoming federal administration, Lt. Governor John
LANSING - The Michigan House Tax Policy Committee is likely to act next week on legislation that would exclude collection of tobacco taxes from the gross receipts portion of the Michigan Business Tax. But while officials from two business groups said they support the concept of HB 6010 , they also urged the panel to
DETROIT - Phil Bertolini, CIO for Oakland County, Peter Karmanos Jr., Chairman of the Board, Compuware Corporation, and Richard Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations each received awards for outstanding community contributions Wednesday night at the Midwest Technology Leaders' awards ceremony. The three technology leaders won the Corporate Commitment to Michigan Award given to corporate leaders
GREENVILLE - United Solar Ovonic, which makes solar laminate products in a town that lost 10,000 jobs when Electrolux moved an appliance factory to Mexico, started hiring the first of 400 new employees on Monday, very good economic news for this hard pressed mid Michigan town. The company, based in Auburn Hills, recently began planning
DETROIT - A net 9 percent of chief information officers in the Detroit area expect to hire information technology professionals in the third quarter of 2008, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. Thirteen percent of executives surveyed plan to add staff during the quarter and 4 percent
LOS ANGELES - Shell is preparing to open a fueling station in west Los Angeles later this month that will dispense gasoline or, for the right car, hydrogen. Duncan Macleod, vice president of Shell Hydrogen, provided this update during a keynote talk Tuesday at the CTSI Clean Technology conference, where he said that the Santa