LANSING - The revelation that Iowa-based Midwest Living magazine writes the state's Pure Michigan Travel Guide prompted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer to question why Governor Rick Snyder's administration did not pick a Michigan-based company for the job. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported Saturday that Des Moines, Iowa-based Midwest Living publishes the guide, which is
SAN FRANCISCO - Forget the National Security Agency and other government intelligence bureaus. One doesn't need a taxpayer-funded agency to maintain a nearly comprehensive and constant library of your visage as you travel near and far. There are, in fact, a number of products and services from both startups and tech giants aimed at capturing
DEARBORN - The SME Education Foundation has awarded $120,000 in Family and Director Scholarships to eight students pursuing engineering careers. In addition, the 2013 SME-EF scholarship winner?s circle includes 224 students who were awarded $521,500 in scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $7,000, with some receiving multiple awards. Family Scholarships were presented to the following students:
SAN FRANCISCO - Signed with a valid Apple ID, Backdoor:Python/Janicab.A uses a Unicode trick to pass as a standard document instead of an application. F-Secure is reporting that some new malware attempts in OS X are using a spoofing technique to disguise malicious installations as standard files. The technique involves using a special Unicode character
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan Health Connect is the first health information exchange in the state to effectively transfer infectious disease lab reports from hospitals to the state health department, saving valuable response time during disease outbreaks. Seven McLaren Heath Care hospitals in Michigan ? McLaren Bay Region, McLaren Central Michigan, McLaren Flint, McLaren Greater Lansing,
ANN ARBOR ? The New Enterprise Forum is celebrating its tenth anniversary in July during its unusual entrepreneurs month, featuring business success stories hinging on a wacky product or service idea, lucky timing in a market segment, or a chance encounter that become the big break. To celebrate the decade mark, this year NEF will
DETROIT - One of the most innovative new in-field technologies used by the U.S. Army during its campaign in the Middle East was developed at Focus: HOPE, a nonprofit civil rights organization based in Detroit. The Mobile Parts Hospital, a portable manufacturing unit, has been onsite at as many as six separate battlefield locations at
COMMERCE ? In a study just released, Nuspire Networks contends network reconnaissance is on the rise, growing more pervasive and potentially damaging than the threat of computer viruses. The study finds that port scanning incidents at remote locations and branch office environments have risen nearly 40 percent from one month to the next. Port scanning
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? The labor market for engineering talent has fundamentally changed in Michigan becoming a sellers' market, so says The Hunter Group, an executive search agency. ?If you have a strong technical background and you?re not working, it?s by choice,? said Sherry Muir Irwin, a partner in The Hunter Group, founded in 1995 to
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? Gibbs Sports Amphibians, maker of the world's first personal sports amphibian, plans to add a hundred new dealers nationwide, hire more employees to assemble the land-water vehicles in Auburn Hills, and introduce a new two-passenger model later this year. The company has orders to build 1000 Quadskis in 2013, said Gibbs Communications