LANSING - Nominations open Sept. 29 for the 2015 Michigan Celebrates Small Business awards program, a prestigious annual competition that recognizes successful growing businesses and their supporters. The winners will be honored at the 11th annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business event on May 7, 2015. Last year, nearly 1,000 people attended the state?s premier awards
CUPERTINO, Ca. ? Apple said Monday that its first weekend sales for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus topped 10 million units, another record. Apple didn't break out sales between the two models, though the iPhone 6 Plus seemed to be a much harder device to find over the weekend. "Sales for iPhone 6 and
CUPERTINO, Ca. - The next version of Android will for the first time encrypt data by default, Google confirmed last week, preventing both thieves and law enforcement officials from gaining access to personal information on the devices running the web giant's mobile operating system. While data encryption has been optional on Android smartphones and tablets
LANSING - Michigan's sales tax revenues topped $7 billion for the first time in history during the 2012-13 fiscal year, a report from the Department of Treasury shows, but the tax base is "being eroded rapidly" by increasing retail sales through the Internet and mail order. So-called remote sales sapped an estimated $410 million from
LANSING - Gongwer News Service Thursday unveiled two major new features to its pioneering bill tracking system that allow subscribers greater flexibility and utility in following legislation. The first change enables subscribers to track bills by general category. Under the new service, a subscriber identifies the categories he or she wants to follow. When new
CUPERTINO - Apple is beefing up iCloud's security following promises by CEO Tim Cook to take stronger measures in the aftermath of the high-profile breaching of accounts belonging to celebrities who use the service. Apple quietly reactivated two-factor authentication for iCloud on Tuesday, according to MacRumors.com, after the feature was initially tested but then disabled
CUPERTINO - Apple published a long list of iOS 8 security changes on Wednesday as the operating system update got delivered to users. While Apple credited many independent security experts, it continued to not differentiate bugs by severity and buried the fix to a major vulnerability. The most notable fix of the Apple Knowledge Base
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation on Wednesday announced the Michigan Strategic Fund approval of issuance of bonds for the new events center in Detroit, as well as renewal of the State Trade and Export Program and incentives to 11 business expansions and community improvement projects around the state. The authorization of the issuance
SOUTHFIELD - Wayne State University has received a grant from Silicon Mechanics that provides WSU with a computer research cluster at its Computing Services Center. The HPC cluster includes hardware and software donated by Intel, NVIDIA, HGST, Mellanox Technologies, Supermicro, Seagate, Kingston Technology, Bright Computing, and LSI Logic. This year?s HPC cluster contains eight compute
ROCHESTER - Kenneth M. Root, director of membership for the Small Business Association of Michigan, was recognized with an a 2014 ?Emerging Leader? Diamond Award Wed. Sept. 17 during the Michigan Society of Association Executive?s 13th Annual Diamond Awards Banquet in Rochester. Root was recognized for his contributions to the association industry and potential future