SAN FRANCISCO - Android continues to outpace iOS as the top smartphone OS, but Apple remains the dominant manufacturer of handsets. Google's mobile OS captured a 42.8 percent share of smartphone subscribers in the third quarter, according to the latest stats from Nielsen. That left Apple's iOS in second place with 28.3 percent, CNET News.Com
FERNDALE ? Grooveshark, an online music search engine, music streaming service and music recommendation software application, announced Monday that its first branded device is available for pre-sale with Ferndale-based Livio Radio. The Grooveshark Kit by Livio allows users to wirelessly connect their Android phone to any car with a cigarette lighter 12-volt charger and an
STAMFORD, Conn - Worldwide server shipments in the third quarter of 2011 grew 7.2 percent year-on-year, while revenue increased 5.2 percent year-on-year, according to Gartner Inc. All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the third quarter of 2011 except HP and Oracle. HP declined 3.6 percent year-on-year and Oracle achieved flat
SEATTLE - Thursday at the 24th annual SC Conference researchers demonstrated advancements in developing 100 Gbps networks within the U.S. and internationally that are necessary for the next generation of research and discovery. ?Next generation science increasingly requires investigations based on extremely large volumes of data that must be transported across wide distances with exceptionally
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online FSMS, the leading enterprise Food Safety Management System, announced its latest food safety webinar on Dec. 1 called Getting Started with GFSI: Implementation Strategies and Tips. Presented by Jeff Chilton, president and founder of Chilton Consulting Group Inc., this webinar is the latest in the
LANSING - Michigan developers can qualify for financial assistance for the development of eligible brownfield sites through a new low-interest loan program offered by the State of Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority. The funds are being offered through a $1 million Revolving Loan Fund award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ?This grant will
ANN ARBOR - Charles Reinhart Company Realtors kicked-off their 16th Annual Coat Drive on November 1 with the goal of collecting more than 1,500 adult and children?s coats. Through the month of November, Charles Reinhart Company Realtors will be collecting new and gently used winter coats at all of the Charles Reinhart Sales Offices as
ANN ARBOR ? The University of Michigan put two satellites into space Monday on a NASA rocket and satellite. U-M was one of three universities across the nation to send satellites into space on this rocket. M-cubed, which about the size of a square tissue box, ? 10 cm by 10 cm by 10 cm
DETROIT - The Mobile Technology Association of Michigan will explore the future impact of machine-2-mobile and mobile-2-machine technology at Automation Alley November 14 at 5:30 p.m. The growth of the M2M sector of the mobile technology industry is set to explode over the next 10 years according to a multitude of forecasters and analysts. The
ANN ARBOR - The National Science Foundation has awarded a two-year, $2 million grant to the School of Information at the University of Michigan to led a cooperative effort by four major universities to create better methods for data-sharing among scientists and researchers in the new and growing field of sustainability. Sustainable Environment-Actionable Data (SEAD)