NEW YORK - Star Wars-ready holographic calling tops the just released IBM Five in Five list compiled annually in a survey of 3000 researchers who predict five big tech trends for the next five years. Imagine dialing up grandma and having a 3D avatar pop up from the screen. The popularity of video chat services
SAN FRANCISCO - Lookout Mobile Security, which just raised fresh capital to boost its fight against mobile malware, said it has identified the peskiest cell phone threat to date. The Android Trojan, dubbed Geinimi, has cropped up in China and is capable of taking a significant amount of personal data and sending it to remote
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple is being sued for allegedly letting mobile apps on the iPhone and iPad send personal information to ad networks without the consent of users. Jonathan Lalo, who filed the lawsuit on Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., alleges that Apple's iPhones and iPads let ad networks track which
TORRENCE, Ca. - Carmaker Honda is warning more than 2 million of its customers in the U.S. that an e-mail database containing some of their personal information has been stolen. It's not yet 100 percent clear if this breach is connected to the recent breach of the e-mail marketing firm Silverpop Systems, but it sure
LANSING ? Former Michigan political PR pros Sara and Brad Wurfel are returning from Oregon to take similar jobs in Gov.-elect Rick Snyder's administration. Sara Wurfel will serve as press secretary and her husband, Brad, will serve as director of communications for the Department of Environmental Quality. ?We are so pleased that Sara and Brad
GRAND RAPIDS ? Happy Holidays from MITechNews.Com Editor & Publisher Mike Brennan to all my friends and readers in Michigan and beyond and a prosperous and healthy 2011. Whether you worship God, Buddha, Jehovah, Mohammed, Brahma, or any of the hundreds of other avatars who has returned to our earthly plane to teach us the
ANN ARBOR - Plymouth Venture Partners I L.P. Tuesday announced the completion of three portfolio company exits. Two of the exits are to strategic buyers. The third, Toledo s regional telephone company, AmericanBroadband and Telecommunications, resulted from a company buyback from its strong cash flow. Terms of the transactions were not made public. Plymouth Management
DETROIT - The Engineering Society of Detroit on Jan. 27 will kick off its popular Eggs & Energy Breakfast series by looking at Nuclear Energy, how it is used today, its future potential, opportunities and obstacles facing this industry, as well as innovations and new technologies. This breakfast will feature: David B. Harwood, Director and
BLOOMFIELD HILLS ? A survey of Michigan business leaders, academics and industry experts shows optimistic expectations for Michigan's economy in 2011. The 2010 Michigan Economic Outlook was sponsored by the Business Improvement Team and conducted by Business Research Group of Bloomfield Hills. This is the first in a series of semi-annual surveys that BIT will
YPSILANTI - Integrated Sensing Systems has received two federal grants to aid in the support of its wireless implantable pressure sensors for the chronic treatment of congestive heart failure, as well as its drug infusion flow sensing technology for much safer drug administration. ISSYS applied for these grants earlier in the year under the Qualifying