HOLLAND - Holland Board of Public Works has been awarded the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's Neighborhood Environmental Partners Program Award for its commitment to environmental community outreach. The NEP program recognizes community-based projects and the partners who make them possible, including local units of government, non-profits, and others who work together to
EGHAM, UK - Gartner Inc. said worldwide smartphone sales recorded the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the second quarter of 2015, some 330 million units, an increase of just 13.5 percent over the same period in 2014, reflecting a quarterly decline in China, about a third of the world market. "While demand for
ANN ARBOR - If you want to work for a high-growth Michigan technology company, LLamasoft wants to hear from you. In fact the company has more than 20 IT job openings. If you want to find out more, supply chain management company is hosting a job mixer Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm. LLamasoft is
LANSING - Seniors in the state will have easier access to information about services in their area through a new website launched Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services Aging and Adult Services Agency. Among other services, the site lists contact information for area agencies on aging by county as well as
LANSING - If anything about the disputed Pipeline 5 that carries oil and natural gas under the Mackinac Straits suggested it should be replaced, Enbridge Energy would look at the process, executives with the company told reporters on Monday. The executives, who spoke to reporters after meeting with leaders of the state's pipeline task force,
LANSING - Michigan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to its lowest rate in 14 years in July, 5.3 percent, but the decline had nothing to do with the state adding new jobs during the month because figures showed the state had no net gain in employment last month. The number of unemployed individuals declined as
WASHINGTON DC - Many people rely on security questions like "What's your mother's maiden name?" to protect their personal information online, but hackers are getting better at finding the answers. Case in point: the hackers who raided US Government's Internal Revenue Service data systems. Those attackers were much more successful at answering security questions than
LANSING - The effort to win approval of new funding for roads ran into the same old problem Wednesday in the House saw negotiations fall apart with no solution in sight. Without an agreement to bring aboard a large number of minority Democrats, majority House Republicans tried in vain to build up enough support within
FERNDALE - We were joined at ITInTheD by Bamboo Detroit to talk about their co-working space downtown and an impending expansion, by Newmind Group to talk about an event in September that they're putting on along with their core offerings, and by Andrea from the Pontiac Public School District talking about technology in the world
DETROIT - Ken Schoen, CEO of ACD.net, a Lansing based ISP, joins Internet Advisor to talk about new ways to bridge the digital divide that is growing between the connected and the unconnected in Michigan. The heart of our conversation centers around new technologies that promise to bring high speed connectivity and economic growth to areas
