SPRING LAKE - TGW-Ermanco, a provider of integrated logistics solutions, has released the Mustang Evo, the next generation of the company's Mustang single-mast automated storage and retrieval system. The all new Mustang Evo combines well-proven technologies with fundamentally new approaches of handling machine engineering to create one of the fastest AS/RS solutions in the industry.
MIAMI - American Express on Tuesday unveiled Pulse, a Twitter stream focused on small businesses. Pulse, which is a part of American Express' Open Forum site, uses Twitter's API to display the public tweets from small business owners. This stream can also be broken up into different small business industries, such as auto dealers, cleaning
ANN ARBOR - Ana Preston, Internet2's current Director for Regional and State Network Relations, and interim Director for International Relations, has been named Internet2?s new Executive Director for Member Relations and Communications . Her new appointment will begin December 1. In this role, Preston will assume management responsibility for the organization?s member engagement and communications
STAMFORD, Conn. - Global semiconductor sales are now expected to fall this year by 11 percent - an improvement over the previous estimate of a 17 percent drop, according to research released Monday by Gartner. And the outlook for 2010 is sunny. Revenue is projected to drop this year to $226 billion, an 11.4 percent
LANSING - Liquid Web Inc., the largest Web hosting company in Michigan with more than 20,000 clients in more than 120 countries, Wednesday opened its new cloud computing data center and world headquarters, boosting the company's hosting capabilities to 35,000 servers at three data centers. The $80-million, 90,000-square-foot facility in southwest Lansing will employ 600
LANSING ? AT&T Michigan has been ordered by an Ingham County Circuit Court judge to pay ACD Telecom $7,994.590 for breach of contract. From January 2003 to December 2003 AT&T offered to enter into a "Mutual Waiver Agreement," or MWA, with Michigan CLECs. Under the MWA, the parties agreed that they would not charge termination
SOUTHFIELD - The Salvation Army is pumping up its Online Red Kettle with the introduction of a new Facebook application in an effort to engage all audiences in its annual Red Kettle Campaign. The Online Red Kettle allows people to host their own fundraiser for The Salvation Army by making donations online. "With an increased
DETROIT - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Huffington Post technology and innovations editor Jose Antonio Vargas will examine the state of professional journalism in The Brave New World of Journalism, a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 in the Partrich Auditorium of the Wayne State University Law School. Hosted by the Wayne State Center
YPSILANTI - Integrated Sensing Systems announced that the U.S. Patent Office has granted it a utility patent (US 7,581,429) for Microfluidic Device and Method of Operation. "The new patent and associated technology offers improved fluidic sensor and system designs and performance," said Nader Najafi, ISSYS President and CEO. "The basic technology is already seeing use
BATTLE CREEK - Transformation of Battle Creek's downtown was recognized as the Construction/Development Deal of the Year by a Michigan business news weekly. Battle Creek's downtown transformation was selected among five other high profile development projects, including the Harbor Shores Jack Nicklaus golf course (Benton Harbor), the new airport terminal in Kalamazoo, the new Gun