LANSING - The surprising announcement some two weeks ago that Consumers Energy would end an agreement to by electric power from the Palisades nuclear plan has led the Public Service Commission on Tuesday to call on the utility to provide additional information on its decision. In its call for more information, the PSC has also
ROYAL OAK - Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery as a Service are two new buzzwords that have entered the tech lexicon. Robert Tessanne, vice president Cloud & Technology Solutions for Red Level Networks, explains the advantages of both in this segment of M2 TechCast. “BaaS” (Backup as a Service) and “DRaaS" (Disaster Recovery
ROYAL OAK - Dusty Welsh co-founded Cause Activators LLC a website that helps match non-profits to businesses - people, planet and profits is its triple bottom line. Inforum’s Tember Shea interviews her in this segment of M2 TechCast. CauseActivators.Com allows businesses to register, log in and search for opportunities available. Non-profits are screened before they
ROYAL OAK - Cobo Center has spent $2 million to upgrade its Wi-Fi network, with some 400 different access points, that will handle 32,000 individual sessions simultaneously. Claude Molinari, general manager of SMG/Cobo Center, talks about what this will mean for the North American International Auto Show in January, with the first test coming during
ROYAL OAK - Diva Tech Talk’s Kathleen Norton-Schock interviews Cindy Warner, who's been doing exciting things lately. A former executive with IBM, and Salesforce.Com, Cindy is now the founder of 360ofme.com. Its mission is to enable a consumer to house and share their overall digital footprint. In today’s world with onboard car data, IoT, health care records and
ROYAL OAK - PodcastDetroit Network founding father David Phillips joins M2 TechCast to announce the Internet radio show network has surpassed 50 shows and opened yet another studio - this one in the Penobscot Building in downtown Detroit. Phillips said the new studio is aimed at businesses that want more production, more hand holding, more
ROYAL OAK - Chris Dierkes, an AT&T store manager, talks about three video streaming services – DIRECTV NOW, FreeVIEW and Fullscreen – so you can get your favorite TV networks and made-for-digital video content delivered with more choice and flexibility than ever. If you’re an AT&T Mobility customer, DIRECTV will pick up the tab for
ROYAL OAK - Lisa Vallee Smith, the CEO of Airfoil Group, M2 TechCast to talk about hot tech trends in 2016 and what we might expect in 2017. She said the rise of venture capital in the state is a very positive trend that will help spur the growth of many Michigan tech start-ups. She
OKEMOS - 2016 was the year hacktivists disrupted cyberspace as never before. And offline, hacker activities were much more unsettling to the international status quo. With the mix of fake news, leaked insider information to the press, and claims and counterclaims by public officials, the result was an undermining of news media and government source
ROYAL OAK – On Monday Dec. 19, the last M2 TechCast of the Year, Keith Brophy, state director of the MISBDC, will once again interview an entrepreneur helped by his SBA-based organization. Peter Swartz from Supported Intelligence will discuss a report that shows how legalized cannabis sales could generate a lot of tax revenue for
