ANN ARBOR - Augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality. AR, VR, MR. Today, these are increasingly familiar terms and acronyms as this technology grows more familiar. Once cutting edge and sci-fi, AR/VR/MR – or AVMR - is approaching business-as-usual. Ongoing and proposed applications of AVMR across campus are numerous and varied. AVMR is being used
ANN ARBOR - OK. I promised not to publish any Holiday stories before Thanksgiving, but this one is about Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, and all the marketing hype starts this week. A survey shows most survey participants overwhelmingly prefer to buy from Amazon - and buy Samsung. The results came from Pollfish, a
NOVI - ITC is getting into the Holiday spirit by lighting up 10 of its 150-foot transmission towers with Happy Holidays signs and bright stars at the top. The light show begins Monday and runs through Jan. 5. ITC’s Michigan entities ITCTransmission and Michigan Electric Transmission Company own and operate the high-voltage electricity grid in
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Monday Nov. 20, Paul Rutherford, president of eoStar, will discuss the company's latest publication, "Modernize your Business eGuide." Kathleen Norton-Schock will update what’s happening with women in technology in Michigan with special guest Rosemary Bayer, who is running for the Michigan Senate. Tech248’s Greg Doyle will interview Sean Hurwitz from Pixo,
DETROIT — The challenges and opportunities for smaller manufacturers of lightweighting – the effort to develop and use advanced lightweight materials in manufacturing – will be addressed in a Detroit conference Tuesday, Nov. 21. The event will be held at the Detroit headquarters of Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT), the federal government’s flagship manufacturing research
LANSING - The Michigan Agency for Energy issued its latest Winter Energy Appraisal Thursday, which states energy use in the state is expected to increase again this year, with projections for fuel demand to also rise. Despite the projected increase in winter energy use, projected year-over-year demand for natural gas and electricity is expected to
ROCHESTER HILLS - Businesses now have the power to bring today’s new communications applications to virtually any location and cut the cord to cable and fiber Internet connections. CloudTech1, a Managed Service Provider, has been awarded the exclusive reseller rights by Exede Internet to offer its satellite-based services to any business anywhere in the United
LANSING - It can be hard for small businesses to compete with the big guys. But that’s why there’s Small Business Saturday. American Express founded Small Business Saturday in 2010, giving small businesses and brick-and-mortar stores across the country a special boost and a way to get shoppers’ attentions between Black Friday and Cyber Monday
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers who get hold of some OnePlus phones can obtain virtually unlimited access to files and software through use of a testing tool called EngineerMode that the company evidently left on the devices. Robert Baptiste, a freelance security researcher who goes by the name Elliot Alderson on Twitter after the "Mr. Robot" TV show
ROYAL OAK - Angela Leon, an account director at Airfoil Group, helps technology brands focus on media relations, product launches, events and storytelling. She also helps technology companies prep for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a huge extravaganza that showcases the latest tech trends, hot tech companies and much more. In this podcast,
