LANSING – David DeVries, the former U.S. Office of Personnel Management Chief Information Officer, is the state’s new Department of Technology, Management and Budget director and chief information officer. “David’s efforts to modernize aging IT infrastructure and improve cyber security at the federal level highlight his wealth of skills and experience that make him an excellent
PONTIAC - Oakland County on Sept. 13 will join a program founded by the Kauffman Foundation to provide free, weekly networking that is aimed at supporting startups on a grassroots level. The 1 Million Cups program is based on the notion that entrepreneurs network and discover solutions over a million cups of coffee. Beginning September
ROCHESTER HILLS - SMBs that migrate to the cloud save money since they're choosing an alternative to purchasing overpriced soon-to-be-obsolete on-site hardware. Since most cloud services are priced on a subscription-based model, the cloud gives SMBs the flexibility to add or decrease storage as needed without tying them into a long-term contract. This means
DETROIT - There will be a new wrinkle at the North American International Auto Show in January. A business-to-business and business-to-industry connection platform, called AutoMobili-D, will showcase connected and autonomous vehicle development in Michigan. The announcement came Thursday from the NAIAS and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. “Last year was a great inaugural event of
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan researcher Silvia Lindtner has received one of the first Convergence awards from the National Science Foundation. Lindtner, U-M assistant professor of information, will receive one of the 23 inaugural awards for work to address societal challenges pertaining to work at the human-technology frontier. The amount awarded is $99,185.
ANN ARBOR - A $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will launch oVert, a new initiative to "teleport" museum specimens from their shelves to the Internet by CT scanning 20,000 vertebrates and making these data-rich, 3-D images available to researchers, educators, students and the public. The University of Michigan is one of 16 research institutions
WASHINGTON DC - The White House has approved a plan to turn the US Cyber Command into its own military command. Cyber Command will be elevated to the status of "Unified Combatant Command," President Donald Trump said in a statement Friday. This puts it on par with the nine other unified commands of the military, like Central Command,
DETROIT — AT&T Inc. says it has expanded its 1-gigabit internet connection service to more locations of Detroit, Ann Arbor, Royal Oak, Huntington Woods, Berkley, St. Clair Shores, Livonia, Pittsfield Township, and surrounding areas. The company had already established gigabit service in parts of Canton Township, Lyon township, Novi, and Grand Rapids. Next up for
WASHINGTON DC – Globally, more than 1,600 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles were sold or leased in the first half of 2017, according to a report published this week. More than 1,000 of these vehicles were sold in California, the only state in the U.S. where these vehicles are commercially available. Less than 500 of these
ANN ARBOR - Despite that most web traffic today comes from smartphones and tablets, the mobile web remains inconveniently slow. Even on fast 4G networks, a page takes 14 seconds to load on average—an eternity in today's connected world. A team of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan and MIT has found a
