DETROIT - Just in time for the public opening of the 2016 North American International Auto Show on Saturday, AT&T has boosted its mobile Internet coverage at Cobo Center. AT&T has upgraded its network by installing a new Distributed Antenna System. A DAS is made of numerous, small antennas that distribute AT&T's wireless network coverage.
DETROIT - MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan talks headlines with Internet Advisor Co-host Foster Braun including Dematic moving manufacturing to Mexico, Russian secret service cyber attack on the Ukraine, Michigan Technological University has designed a rogue drone catcher to fend off drones breaking the rules. To listen, click on http://internetadvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/MiTechNews-1-9-16.mp3
FERNDALE - On M2 TechCast Monday Jan. 18, Michigan Science Center CEO Tonya Matthews, Inforum Vice President of Entrepreneurial Strategies Rachel Downs, and Detroit Regional News Hub Editor Marge Sorge. You can listen to M2 TechCast live each Monday at 3 pm on the www.podcastdetroit.com Network. Or you can listen on demand at http://www.podcastdetroit.com/artist/mi-tech-cast/
FERNDALE - M2 TechCast Co-host Mike Brennan calls in live from the North American International Auto Show where Brennan talks about all the cool mobility, and electric-powered vehicles that were debuted. Hybrid electric was the rage, but all electric-powered cars, and fuel-cell powered cars also could be found. In the second half hour, Allison Marrs,
DETROIT - Ford Motor Company wants to make your life better by becoming your best mobility friend through its new Ford Pass program that starts in April. Through the FordPass, you’ll be able pay bills, reserve a parking space, buy coffee - and heck you don’t even have to own a Ford to use the
GRAND RAPIDS - Six high school students will gain valuable hands-on experience in the software design and development process and assist in the creation of a mobile app in the Groundhog Shadow day Program Feb. 2. Organized by the Kent Intermediate School District, the Groundhog Shadow Day Program helps students throughout Kent County prepare for
GRAND RAPIDS - What do organizations like NASA, Disney, Steelcase, and Meijer have in common? They're all innovating with their users in mind, from coming up with unique office furniture solutions for every job and employee's neck and back, to spacing trash cans in theme parks so you find one right when you need it,
DETROIT - Automakers are expected to increase incentives in 2016 that will help propel U.S. sales of new cars and light trucks to an all-time record of nearly 18 million units, predicts an economist for the National Automotive Dealers Association. With growing manufacturing capacity, and a slowing global economy, especially in emerging markets, Steven Szakaly,
ANN ARBOR - In what is said to be the largest venture capital round in Michigan history, Millendo Therapeutics, formerly known as Atterocor Inc., announced this week it raised $62 million that will be used, in part, to pay new partner AstraZeneca for the rights to market a new cancer-fighting drug. The pharmaceutical giant also
GRAND RAPIDS - Dematic’s North America division may soon close its manufacturing operations in Grand Rapids and move 365 jobs south of the border to another Dematic plant in Mexico. The company, known for decades as Rapistan, designs and builds automated systems for warehouses, distribution centers and other sites with material-moving needs. Rapistan first opened
