FERNDALE - Open Systems Technology Marketing Director Michael Lomonaco says there have been great changes on the profitability side of IT over the past couple of years. How products are used is vastly different, he said. Everything is coming from the cloud, meaning terms like “Infrastructure As A Service.” Who is driving all this consumption?
FERNDALE - Professor Donald Carpenter, from Lawrence Technological University, was at the White House water summit last week to detail his work on storm-water runoff. Carpenter, a life-long outdoors enthusiast, realized that the only way to clean up the state’s lakes, streams and rivers is to deal with the run off from the urban and
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. wind farms have reduced carbon dioxide emissions equal to that from 28 million cars, or more than six percent of total air pollutants from U.S. electricity generation last year, a new report contends. Wind power displaces generation from power plants using traditional fuel sources, and thus reduces greenhouse gas emissions and
GRAND RAPIDS - IRS-certified tax preparers and accounting students from Davenport University, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids Community College and Cornerstone University will be joined by community volunteers to provide free tax preparation services for annual household incomes of $58,000 on April 14 - 16 and 18 in Grand Rapids. Volunteers are providing assistance in conjunction
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Northrop Grumman Foundation and the National Society of Black Engineers have launched a three-year, $2-million program designed to expand the nation’s engineering workforce through a partnership with Historically Black Colleges and Universities to help improve science, technology, engineering and math education. The Northrop Grumman Corporation/NSBE Integrated Pipeline Program, funded by the
LANSING - A culinary team from Plymouth-Canton Educational Park in Canton and the management team from Saginaw Career Complex took first place in their respective disciplines at the Michigan ProStart Competition held earlier this month. Both will now compete in the national finals in Dallas. Sixty-four (64) teams representing 20 career and technical centers from
FERNDALE - On M2 (Squared) TechCast Monday March 28 Lawrence Technological University’s Donald Carpenter will discuss a model parking lot project he created at LTU’s Southfield campus that is designed to allow stormwater to flow naturally into the groundwater under a parking lot. The project was chosen for inclusion in the White House Water Summit
TRAVERSE CITY - How long does it take to obtain a FAA Section 333 Exemption? The FAA does not make any commitments on processing time. They have taken as little as two months and more than six months during various phases of 333 review. Here is what the FAA posted last week for people looking to
EAST LANSING - Supported Intelligence’ SmartBracket software after the first weekend of March Madness was ranked in the 74th percentile in the ESPN challenge pool. SmartBracket demonstrates the capabilities of its distinctive Rapid Recursive technology, which was designed to make sequential decisions – where one choice affects the next – for business managers. Their technology
GRAND RAPIDS - The public release Friday of the movie “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” also marks the debut of an App developed by Grand Rapids-based Mutually Human that allows movie fans and tourists to create a self-guided tour of the Detroit locations featured in the movie. Mutually Human President Mark Van Holstyn said
