STAMFORD, Conn. - A storm of trouble is forcing research firm Garter to revise its 2011 and 2012 PC shipment forecasts, the company announced Thursday. Previously, Gartner estimated that worldwide PC shipments in 2011 and 2012 would grow 9.3 percent and 12.8 percent, respectively, over year-earlier figures, CNET News.Com reported. However, the research firm has
ANN ARBOR - The Great Lakes Chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, UM Dearborn, and Great Lakes Entrepreneur Quest will debut the Savvy Entrepreneur Series Sept. 13, which includes a five-minute Michigan entrepreneur update from MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan. The series is co-produced with, and hosted by, a number of the region?s leading innovation accelerators
KALAMAZOO - Vestaron Corporation, a venture-backed agricultural biotechnology company, has hired Steven Hartmeier as its new President and CEO. Hartmeier brings 30 years of agricultural experience to Vestaron with large and small companies. ?Steve?s experience with taking start-up companies through the product commercialization process is just what Vestaron needs at this stage of its development?
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. has received specific and credible intelligence showing al Qaeda militants in Pakistan may be preparing to carry out car bombings in Washington, D.C., and New York City, timed to coincide with the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a U.S. counterterrorism official told the Wall Street Journal Thursday night.
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. ? IT-Harvest.Com Publisher Richard Stiennon has been named to the Most Powerful Voices in Security as both a security analyst and blogger. Stiennon is the technical advisor on a new cyber crime novella, called Cyber Styletto, that predicts a terrorist attack on the nation's traffic and railroad computer controls. Stiennon was ranked
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech is sponsoring an IT disaster recovery webinar and a 7x24 Exchange event presentation Sept. 20 at 2 pm. During the webinar and presentation, Steven Gold that will share expertise learned from living through an actual IT disaster. Steven Gold, Principal Infrastructure Consultant at SJG Consultants, has over 30 years of
WASHINGTON DC ? The Department of Energy will give grants to three Michigan organizations to help make solar energy systems more cost effective. The three organizations to receive awards are: * Cascade Engineering, Grand Rapids, $602,623: Racking system for commercial rooftops using polymers. * Raymond Tinnerman Manufacturing, Rochester Hills, $1.67 million: Bracket system for commercial
TROY - Altair Engineering Wednesday unveiled the world's first series hydraulic hybrid transit bus. The LCO-140H (Low-Cost of Ownership-1st 40-foot Hybrid) was developed under the BUSolutions program in partnership with Automation Alley, which is projected to lower the cost of ownership by $170,000 per bus as compared to a conventional diesel bus. With the average
GRAND RAPIDS ? Rod Kackley, the host of WOODRADIO's Clearly Community show, interviewed Mike Brennan and Richard Stiennon about their new cyber crime novella, Cyber Styletto, which discloses facts about the cyber war now underway. The show aired Sunday on WOOD-AM/FM, WBFX-FM, WMAX-FM, WSNX-FM, WSHZ-FM, WSRW-FM, WBCT-FM, WMRR-FM, WMUS-FM, WKBZ-AM, and WTKG-AM. To listen to
SAN FRANCISCO - New spamming campaign has been observed by TrendMicro that is spreading on twitter, the malicious shortened URLs contain a JPEG file from a Facebook domain. Files with extension .JPEG are usually image and pictures extension but here link lead to a worm detected by Trend Micro as WORM_KOLAB.SMQX. The interesting point that