SAN FRANCISCO – Google has developed a prototype wearable device that borrows heavily from the Star Trek communicator James T. Kirk touched in the popular TV series to communicate with his bridge. While it doesn't connect to any starships, it is meant to suggest new ways to tap into the vast knowledge banks of Google
DETROIT - Southeast Michigan employment levels continued to rise in the third quarter, according to the latest labor market report compiled by the Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan. The WIN report showed 15,000 people got jobs in the third quarter, and now 38,205 more people are working in the region than in the third
TROY - ManagedWay, a leading provider of cloud services, announced Tuesday that it’s launching a new “Cloud Puddles” product - a virtual data center that provides cloud computing without the upfront hardware costs. For businesses moving to the cloud, ManagedWay’s Cloud Puddles offer low entry costs with tremendous scalability and reliability. Services can be purchased
MENLO PARK, Calif. - With holiday deals starting earlier each year, the temptation to act on them – even while at the office – is great. And the ability to bag up bargains on company time is growing, a new Robert Half Technology survey shows: One-quarter of chief information officers (CIOs) said their firms allow unrestricted access
LANSING - Hewlett Packard met a judge-imposed deadline of 5 p.m. Friday to turn over the source code for information technology projects it had been pursuing for the Department of State, a department spokesperson said Monday. A week ago, a Kent Circuit judge ordered HP Enterprise Services to turn over the source code for the
NOVI – M2 TechCast does its first remote live broadcast from the Engineering Society of Detroit Job Fair at the Suburban Showcase. More than 50 employers offered more than 2,000 jobs in technology, engineering, science and math. If you couldn’t make it to the Job Fair, listen to this podcast to find out how you
STERLING HEIGHTS – When Chris Lawson was approached 18 months ago to become the chief executive officer of STAHLS’, he admits he knew nothing about the world’s leading international manufacturer, distributor and direct supplier of garment decoration equipment started in a Warren garage in 1932. He's the former chief financial officer for Ross Roy Communications,
ROYAL OAK - Airfoil Public Relations, after a decade in the Southfield Town Center, will be moving to new custom-built offices in Royal Oak in January. The move is part cost-cutting, part culture-creating. The cost cutting part is Airfoil recovering from the loss of about 20 percent of its billables when long-time client Microsoft Enterprise
LONDON - Having your house broken into is a harrowing experience. Researchers being able to hack into and control a Chrysler Jeep owing to a vulnerability in the in-car internet service Uconnect - should be considered a similar violation, according to Audi Chief Executive Officer Rupert Stadler. “The Internet, cookies and other data collectors are
ANN ARBOR - Ford ‘invented’ the mass market car in the shape of its 1908 Model T and now its hoping to lead the charge into creating volume selling autonomous vehicles. That’s why it became the first carmaker to test autonomous vehicles at Mcity – the 32-acre simulated urban environment at the University of Michigan.
