WATERLOO, Ontario - Research In Motion has leapt into the retail consumer market with products such as its pink BlackBerry Pearl, a candy bar-shaped e-mail phone stuffed with multimedia goodies, exposing itself to shoppers' fickle tastes and competition from Apple's iPhone. Its devices now include more "lifestyle" features, such as television, music players, cameras, and
GRAND RAPIDS - IT services and consulting firm NuSoft Solutions has hired Matthew Matlosz as Account Executive. Matlosz is responsible for sales, project leadership and management of NuSoft's local and national accounts. Matlosz is based at NuSoft?s Michigan?s office and will serve clients throughout the region. Matlosz joins NuSoft from Kforce, where he worked as
KALAMAZOO ? BlueGranite has signed an agreement with Microsoft to serve as a Business Intelligence Virtual Technical Specialist, which means employees of the IT consulting company can serve as virtual Microsoft employees with some clients. Matthew Mace, president and CEO of BlueGranite, which has sold and supported Microsoft products since the company was founded in
GRAND HAVEN ? Corporate training solutions provider Media1 has won four awards from the Society for Technical Communication's Effective Communication Competition, including Best of Show. The Best of Show awards was given for its work on the Meijer Effective Selling course. The Western Michigan Chapter will sponsor sending this course on to the STC International
BERLIN - Microsoft is making a new bid to get governments to go with its technology, rather than open-source alternatives such as Linux and OpenOffice. At its Government Leaders Forum in Berlin, which kicks off on Tuesday, the company plans to announce what it is calling the Citizen Service Platform. It's not a whole new
ANN ARBOR ? ProQuest, owned by Cambridge Information Group, has acquired RefWorks LLC, a leading provider of web-based research management, writing and collaboration services for the academic and research communities. No dollar value was announced. Cambridge Information Group has had an ownership position in RefWorks since May 2001. Complete ownership will enable ProQuest to integrate
WASHINGTON - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Aviation Safety Program, has awarded $476,000 to the University of Michigan to develop a damage resilient flight planning and guidance system and adaptive flight controls to make future commercial jetliners safer. These awards will foster closer collaboration with and facilitate the exchange of ideas and information among researchers
ANN ARBOR - Research spending by the University of Michigan cracked the $800 million plateau in fiscal year 2007, the first time that has happened. The announcement was made by Stephen Forrest, U-M Vice President for Research at the January Regents meeting. The federal government provided 72.4 percent of the $823 million total. Investments by
FLINT - Russell J. Ebeid, president of the Guardian Glass Group, has donated $500,000 to seed a $1 Million endowment to provide scholarships for students of Arab-American descents attending Kettering University. The fund, a partnership with the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services in Detroit, will total more than $1 million within 25
GRAND RAPIDS ? Network backbone provider US Signal has added a new data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, to serve its metro Chicago network. US Signal?s Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical backbone is based on Cisco technology. ?Providing services in carrier-neutral data centers is an important component of US Signal?s strategy in the