DEARBORN ? ISACA Detroit will host a chapter meeting on March 19 that looks at how to Implement an IT Risk Management Methodology. RSVP by March 15. Panel Speakers include: Brenda Karl, CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, QSA Craig Kelley, MBA, CISA Jamshid Sadaghiyani CPA, CISA, CRISC David Flynn CPA, CISA The pre dinner topic is Career
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. personal income increased by 0.3 percent in January, driven by Increased government benefits from the Affordable Care Act and from cost-of-living increases, Comerica Bank said in a report issued Tuesday. The expiration of long-term unemployment benefits was a drag, as was the after-effect of the December boost in lump-sum social security
LANSING - Doubt is mounting among House Republicans about using the state's surplus funds for tax relief with momentum building to instead use the funds for road repairs as the pressure from constituents, especially after the first thaw of the year, builds to improve the state's crumbling roads. Rep. Tim Kelly (R-Saginaw Township), sponsor of
LANSING ? The Green Infrastructure Conference, hosted by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, is taking registration for the event, scheduled for May 8-9 in Lansing. This conference includes several panels and keynote speakers that will be discussing what is being done at the federal and state levels to advance Green Infrastructure (GI) including new
DETROIT ? Eleven Michiganders are ranked among by Forbes magazine as the wealthiest people in the world, lead by brothers Hank and Doug Meijer ? co-chairmen and grandsons of the founder of the Grand Rapids-based grocery that bears the family name. The Meijers brothers earned the highest ranking of billionaires in the Great Lakes State
SAN FRANCISCO - Total Kickstarter pledges have surpassed $1 billion, the company announced Monday. The total came from 5.7 million donors, and half of the sum was pledged in the last 12 months alone. In Kickstarter's first month in April 2009, its users raised nearly $3,900. Kickstarter, along with competitor Indiegogo, have become funding places
MILFORD - MIPRO Consulting, an Oracle?s PeopleSoft applications integrator, announced that they have been retained by Children?s Hospital Colorado, a national leader in providing children and their families with an integrated pediatric heath care delivery system. The core of this project will involve upgrading the hospital?s PeopleSoft FSCM applications from version 8.9 to 9.2. The
DETROIT - Professor Jeff Ingalsbe puts some of the recent advances in mobile technology showcased at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in perspective and explores the threats to our privacy that come with these advances. Matt Hampel of Code for Detroit Brigade shares the vision of this group of technologist who want to solve
CUPERTINO, Ca. ? Apple has finally perfected its iOS product for the car, called CarPlay -replication of a simplified iOS interface into a touch-screen display in the car, plus extensive voice command. The focus here is simplicity and safety, with no complex interface elements and, seemingly, no virtual keyboards, CNET News.Com reported. Instead, many actions
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Wednesday the completion of several upgrades to its statewide, fiber-optic backbone. The upgrades bolster critical paths on Merit's core network to better support bandwidth exchange between Members and improve the flow of traffic to key interconnection points with Internet2, the Tier 1 Internet and content providers. "Our Members continue