AUBURN HILLS ? The Michigan Council of Women in Technology will host the 6th Annual Technology Career Summit on Sept. 17 at Oakland Community College. You'll have an opportunity to: Listen to HP's view of the future of technology Hear why mobile apps are the bright future for developers See how nanotechnology drives development of
DETROIT - The worldwide market for Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles will reach almost $9 billion by 2015, when 2.5 million hybrids, 300,000 plug-in hybrids and 500,000 electric vehicles will be coming down production lines. This growth will, however, be accompanied by massive overcapacity. Over the next few years, we will see Li-ion battery production
NOVI - Red Level Networks announced Wednesday that it has been selected for inclusion on the CRN Next-Gen 250 list. This annual listing of innovative businesses and technology integrators, solution providers, and resellers in North America features businesses that offer solutions and services in cloud computing, mobility, unified communications, virtualization and other budding technologies. Businesses
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.
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
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
LANSING - U.S. Rep. John Conyers is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to deny permits for the controversial commercial hazardous waste injection well in Romulus that he once supported, Gongwer News Service has learned. The move comes as Conyers (D-Detroit) considers whether to run in a new congressional district that includes Romulus, where opposition to