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LIFT, Universities, NCMS Name 6 Educators To Expert Educator Team

DETROIT – LIFT - Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences named six educators to its Expert Educator Team. The EET will collaborate with LIFT’s technology project teams to identify how colleges and universities can modify their curricula and related industry certifications to meet

By |2017-02-23T21:09:42-05:00February 23rd, 2017|New Products / Contracts|

Xfinity X1 Customers Can View Academy Awards Sunday With 1500 Hours Of Content

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Building off of last year’s success, Comcast, ABC Television and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will again partner to create an immersive The Oscars television viewing experience for Xfinity X1 customers.  This year The Oscars experience will include more than 1500 hours of content, as well as live streams

By |2017-02-23T20:57:15-05:00February 23rd, 2017|New Products / Contracts|

Neil deGrasse Tyson talks science and Snowden at RSA

SAN FRANCISCO - Neil deGrasse Tyson didn't have much to say about cybersecurity at the RSA conference on Thursday - but nobody much cared. The tech industry folks gathered at the annual cybersecurity conference soaked up Tyson's enthusiastic talk on the most exciting developments in science today, which ranged from exoplanets to gravity waves. Tyson

By |2017-02-23T20:45:35-05:00February 23rd, 2017|Science|

Trust And Risks Both Growing in Government Clouds

GRAND LEDGE - As the 2017 RSA Security Conference kicked off in San Francisco, Intel Security released the results of its second annual survey on cloud security practices. The report outlines the current state of cloud adoption, the primary concerns with private and public cloud services, security implications, and the evolving impact of shadow IT

By |2017-02-23T20:13:25-05:00February 23rd, 2017|Cyber Defense|

Using Technology To Make Health Care Safer

PLYMOUTH - Recent media coverage of hospitals penalized for high rates of hospital-acquired infections brings into focus one of the most preventable causes of such infections: unclean surgical instruments. Ensuring the cleanliness of surgical instruments has long been a vexing and troublesome issue for health care facilities. Until recently, however, most of the population was

By |2017-02-23T20:38:29-05:00February 23rd, 2017|Guest Columns|

SBAM Webinar: Extreme Communication Makeover Feb. 23

GRAND RAPIDS - You expand your product and service portfolio. Upgrade your IT tools and technology. Refresh your facilities. Isn’t it time you thought about an extreme communication makeover? Join us to learn the five things you should do now (and a few things you should stop doing) to ramp up your communications to grow

By |2017-02-21T20:18:18-05:00February 21st, 2017|Small Business Association of Michigan|

Michigan STEM Partnership Gets $26K From Bosch Community Fund

HOWELL - The Michigan STEM Partnership has received a $26,000 grant from the Bosch Community Fund to further define the Partnership’s opportunities to improve the evolving STEM landscape in Michigan. Information gathered through research, assessment and evaluation will be used to identify the necessary role, structure, functions and capacity needed for the Partnership to bolster

By |2017-02-21T20:18:28-05:00February 21st, 2017|Mobile MI, STEM|

U-M Tops Public Universities For Fulbrights For 12th Year In A Row

ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan students received 21 Fulbright grants for the 2016-17 academic year - the most of any public university in the nation for the 12th year in a row, the U.S. State Department announced. The grants - one of the U.S. government's most prestigious awards - fund the students' research or

By |2017-02-21T18:50:33-05:00February 21st, 2017|News|

Lawrence Tech University Summer Camps

DETROIT - Lisa R. Kujawa, the Assistant Provost for Enrollment at Lawrence Technological University, joined us for the first  hour of the show to highlight the summer camp schedule coming this July at LTU. Over 500 students from all over the state and a few foreign countries attended last year’s camps as commuter campers and

By |2017-02-21T20:18:45-05:00February 21st, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

Dataspeed, Great Lakes Comic Con, PT Muldoon and ERC

ROYAL OAK - Another week, another great episode with our guests as we rolled through episode 183 of the IT in the D podcast from our Podcast Detroit studios.  We were joined by Dataspeed talking robotics and driverless cars, Great Lakes Comic Con chatting about their event next weekend (that you should totally be at…and

By |2017-02-21T18:15:19-05:00February 21st, 2017|IT in the D, Podcasts|