SAN FRANCISCO - McAfee is looking into a problem with a service in its SaaS Endpoint Protection software that appears to be allowing computers to serve as open proxies for sending spam, the company told CNET. A McAfee customer posted on a Microsoft Technet forum that "McAfee has developed a patch that will instruct rumor
LANSING ? The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday that the City of Detroit has won a $400,000 Advanced Lighting Technology Demonstration grant to upgrade street lights in six areas of the city. ?The State of Michigan is pleased to partner with the City of Detroit and DTE Energy to replace aging and inefficient lighting
SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries are in the middle of a cyberwar that has led to disruptions of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, several Israeli banks, and an airline. As a result, some Israeli banks have blocked or are threatening to block international access to their sites to avoid
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Crime fiction author John Locke was the first independently published author to sell more than one million Kindle eBooks using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Now he's the first author to sign a book distribution deal with Simon & Schuster to get his next book into book stores nationwide. Locke, a commercial
ANN ARBOR - The umbrella trade association for the Robotic Industries Association, AIA, and the Motion Control Association has changed its name from the Automation Technologies Council to the Association for Advancing Automation. ?The new name more accurately reflects our mission, which is to be the global advocate for the benefits of automation,? said Jeff
SAN JOSE, Ca. ? On Jan. 15, on-line shoe sales site Zappos notified customers about the breach of their database systems that resulted in the exposure of customer data, which could have been prevented if the data had been encrypted. Todd Thiemann, Senior Director, Product Marketing Vormetic, which provides encryption for 15 of the Fortune
ANN ARBOR - John Stack, President of the Optical Systems Division for Zygo Corporation, was presented with the 2012 AIA Achievement Award during a ceremony held today at AIA's 20th Annual Business Conference in Orlando, Florida. This prestigious award is the vision and imaging industry's top leadership award. Stack was nominated by AIA members and
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, announced the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan as its charity partner for 2012. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Every year, Plex Systems? employees select one or two nonprofits to support and contribute funds to.
PLEASANT RIDGE - ePrize has announced its second acquisition in six months, buying Cellit, a Chicago-based mobile marketing agency. The deal adds 16 employees to ePrize, which will top 400 employees in 2012 forcing the digital marketing company to look for new headquarters. Cellit?s expertise in mobile marketing and customer relationship management products and services
ANN ARBOR - Ann Arbor SPARK has launched Ann Arbor SPARK CEO Podcasts: Conversations on Economic Opportunity, featuring Paul Krutko, its president and CEO, interviewing regional business leaders. "Since joining Ann Arbor SPARK, I've met with more than 80 business owners who are advancing our region's economy; there's an incredible depth of expertise in our