FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Flash-based storage continues to move from being an expensive niche technology targeted at a few workloads to a more mainstream technology. According to the International Data Corporation, the broader availability of products, a growing level of familiarity with the benefits of solid state technologies, and declining prices are all adding to the
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. ? The worldwide smartphone market reached a new milestone in the second quarter of 2014, moving past the 300 million unit mark for the first time in its history. According to final data from the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 301.3 million smartphones worldwide in
LANSING - A Michigan Senate work group assembled after the chamber could not reach an agreement on how best to fund infrastructure met on Thursday and reviewed some 48 bills related to the subject, Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville said, and will likely address requests for proposals and the bidding process in the fall. "Some
LANSING - Michigan has had various controls in place for decades to reduce the nutrient loading that caused a recent algae bloom in Lake Erie, but is now asking for federal assistance in taking the next steps. The requests, made at a meeting with federal officials Wednesday and announced Thursday, was for a national standard
AUBURN HILLS ? Kathy Ossian, founder of Ossian Law, will teach a workshop that takes a look at the practical approach to data security laws on Aug. 21 at 9 am at Oakland University. It is part of the Growing Your Business, Tools For Success Workshop Series. In the wake of the Target and Neiman
SOUTHFIELD - The Engineering Society of Detroit has brought Robert Magee out of retirement to serve as interim executive vice president of the nonprofit organization until a permanent successor can be found for former executive director Darlene Trudell, who left ESD several weeks ago to pursue other opportunities. ESD Director of Communications Matt Roush declined
SOUTHFIELD - Warner Norcross & Judd LLP Partner Dennis J. Donohue has been named chair of the Mining and Mineral Extraction Committee of the American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy and Resources. An experienced environmental law attorney, Donohue will serve a one-year term leading the committee, which provides a forum for research, study and
GRAND RAPIDS ? Veteran journalist Rod Kackley said after decades of writing straight news copy, or reading it on the radio, he was ready to write something fun. Now he has, publishing the second of three books of fiction centered on his imaginary town of St. Isidore, where unusual happenings ? read kidnappings and suicides
BIRMINGHAM - This is an update to the article about identifying LinkedIn scammers when they request a connection. In that article we listed six ways to identify fake accounts. 1.Look at that URL. If it indicates that this is a new account (anything over 300 million right now) be very suspicious. Other than your kids
BIRMINGHAM - We all knew it was coming. As more and more networks are created and the IP address space is subdivided more and more the global routing table that backbone routers have to store in memory grow. Many older routers only have 512K of memory. If the size of the table exceeds that, the