DETROIT - Lisa Whitmore Davis, AARP Michigan Associate State Director for Community Outreach,describes the AARP TEK Android Smartphone workshops being offered across the state of Michigan this summer and other tech offerings for seniors. To find out more about the upcoming AARP TEK free seminars near you, call 866 591-8105 or visit www.aarptek.aarp.org Classes will be
DETROIT - Congratulations to Charlie Hopper, founder of Pasty.com and Pasty.net and also proprietor of Pasty Central winner of the USA Today “Best Pasty in Michigan Award”. Charlie and his staff have also been serving Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with high speed wireless internet access since 1968 through Pasty.net. On our show today Charlie called over a
DETROIT - Michelle Gilbert, Vice President Public Relations, Comcast Cable Heartland Region, returned to talk about Internet Essentials, a low cost (less than $10/mo) internet connection package for low income families to bridge the digital divide. Michelle also outlined Comcast’s recent campaign to increase the number of xfinity wifi hotspots available around the state. Over 700 hotspots
ROYAL OAK - Well, a little bit of chaos evolved with our guests over the course of the day, but we prevailed and managed to have a great show with cool, fun guests anyway. We were joined by Travis from Source Point Press who clued is in to why they’re a little different than a
DETROIT - Techstars Mobility has announced their next class of tech startups aiming to disrupt the transportation space. Last year’s class included companies like SPLT who have expanded regionally and nationally, bringing ride sharing to corporations through their technology platform. The twelve startups in this year’s class will work intensively over the three-month program at Ford
LANSING - March saw the steepest decline in automotive manufacturing wages since 2009, the Senate Fiscal Agency said in its Economic Indicators report issued Monday. The report showed wages for auto workers dropped more than 20 percent in March, close to the wage drop seen in January 2009. But unlike that drop at the beginning
LIVONIA - Traveling with technology needs a level of paranoia. It is safe to assume any time the tech is out of your site someone is trying to copy the data from it. From your phone's contact list to the contents of the hard drive of your laptop. Even the hotel safe and Wifi are
GRAND RAPIDS - Dematic announced Tuesday it has enhanced the operational analytics capabilities for its real-time software automation platform, Dematic iQ 2.1. Modern distribution centers and warehouses require quick access to operational information, both current and historical, to make actionable decisions. The Operational Analytics built into this latest release provides a variety of persona-based views and
EAST LANSING — A group of Michigan State University engineering students is among 17 teams taking part in a national drone competition this week in Maryland. The MSU team will be competing in the 2016 Student Unmanned Air Systems event at the Webster Naval Field in Patuxent River. “We are building a fully autonomous UAV
NOVI - ITC has installed 1,053 yellow-coiled bird diverters along more than five miles of its Tittabawassee – Hampton and Bauer – Tittabawassee 345 kilovolts transmission lines that cross the Crow Island State Game Area in Saginaw, Mich. The diverters are designed to help make the lines more visible to birds and discourage contact with
