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Michigan Cyber Security Conference

GRAND RAPIDS - Come Thursday, October 19, at the JW Marriott in downtown Grand Rapids to discover the latest cyber security trends and threats facing your organization! Back by popular demand, the Fourth Annual Michigan Cyber Security Conference will feature presentations and panel discussions from industry specialists, local experts, and keynote speaker Corey Nachreiner, CTO

By |2017-09-21T15:26:35-04:00September 21st, 2017|Cyber Defense|

Mobile Monday Detroit Hosts Wearables AR/VR Demo

DETROIT – Mobile Monday Detroit has invited experts to provide hands-on demonstrations of their wearable and AR/VR integrated technologies at the October 9th event taking place at RIIS in Troy at 5:30 pm. This event will be a strictly “hands-on” experience with a variety of companies demonstrating their technologies and available to answer any questions

By |2017-09-21T14:58:27-04:00September 21st, 2017|Connected Tech, Mobile MI|

Northville Professor Gets Lifetime Achievement Award For STEM-Related Body Of Work

FARGO - North Dakota State University Assistant Professor Jeremy Straub - who grew up in Northville, Michigan - has been given the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.  The award acknowledges the importance of Straub’s work so far in his career.  Recipients are selected based on the totality of their accomplishments, instead of being recognized

By |2017-09-21T15:09:03-04:00September 21st, 2017|News, STEM|

2017 Comcast Has a Plan and Cal Drives the Bus

DETROIT - Cal Carson stepped up and took over hosting duties for this show at the last minute - because host Foster Braun was recovering from a hospital stay - along with Capt. Gary Baker in Ft. Lauderdale, who was waiting for the hurricanes to come ashore before putting out to see in his sailing yacht. To

By |2017-09-20T20:36:14-04:00September 20th, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

A Podcast Conference We’re Speaking At, The Place We Opened Our New Studio, And A New Show

ROYAL OAK - No really, there’s a podcasting conference that asked us to speak, and we’ll be there next weekend, so we brought the man organizing it up to the studios to make sure he knew what he was in for…and surprisingly, we’re still going.  We also talked about DSDT, where we’ve opened our new downtown

By |2017-09-20T20:36:28-04:00September 20th, 2017|IT in the D, Podcasts|

Considering Solar Energy?

LANSING - Considering solar energy?  Solar is now so cheap in the United States it beat government goals by three years. Solar continues to be a rowing fraction of US utility-scale electricity generation.  On September 12th the US Department of Energy announced that utility-grade solar panels have hit 2020 cost targets three years early. Utility-scale

By |2017-09-20T15:34:52-04:00September 20th, 2017|Small Business Association of Michigan|

Oakland County Hosts MFGDAY To Expose Students To Manufacturing Careers

PONTIAC - Oakland County is hosting MFGDAY 2017 Tour Take-off at the Pontiac Technical campus Oct. 5. More than 400 students will be attending tours throughout the county. This is the third year Oakland County has organized a Countywide MFGDAY tour.  MFGDAY is a national event  where across America students will be learning what modern

By |2017-09-19T20:04:31-04:00September 19th, 2017|News|

Intel Says It Has Been Working With Google Spin-Out Waymo On Autonomous Vehicles

SAN JOSE, Ca. - Chip maker Intel announced last week that is has partnered with Google spin-out Waymo since 2009. Intel has been supplying Xeon processors, Arria field programmable gate arrays - for machine vision - and gigabit ethernet solutions - to let all the various components talk to each other. "With three million miles

By |2017-09-19T19:47:52-04:00September 19th, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles|

Michigan House Dems Propose Air, Water Testing In Schools

LANSING - Some House Democrats on Monday announced legislation they said would aid in creating healthy school environments to help students learn and the creation of a Better Classroom Caucus to address environmental and health factors in schools. Rep. Robert Wittenberg (D-Oak Park) will chair the new caucus, a statement said. Mr. Wittenberg along with Rep. Stephanie

By |2017-09-21T19:53:25-04:00September 19th, 2017|Politics|

Coalition Of Michigan House Lawmakers Offer Auto Insurance Reform

LANSING - Fifteen House members last week unveiled their auto insurance reform plan, a package called the “Fair and Affordable No-Fault Reform Package" that they claim will reduce auto insurance rates 20 to 30 percent without cutting benefits. "Michigan's auto insurance system is among the very best in the world when it comes to providing

By |2017-09-19T18:55:17-04:00September 19th, 2017|Politics|