TROY - Automation Alley is currently accepting applications for an upcoming trade mission to Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. The mission is scheduled for September 27 ? October 1. Targeted industries on the mission include aerospace; automotive components; building products; cleantech and renewable energy technologies; defense and homeland security; general industrial equipment; IT and information
LANSING - Majority Senate Republicans are offering a proposed compromise that would resolve the current year 2009-10 budget deficit as well as the budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year that begins October 1 using a variety of measures to lessen cuts that previously passed the Senate for 2010-11. The proposal, provided to Gongwer News Service,
LANSING - A House Democratic proposal to sell part of the state's future tobacco settlement revenues to reap immediate funds that could close the current year budget deficit of about $300 million in the general fund was rejected Thursday by Senate Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (R-Rochester) said the concept is fiscally irresponsible. "Probably
LANSING - There were again fewer telephone lines in Michigan and competitors to the incumbent phone companies controlled a larger percentage of those lines, according to the annual competition report from the Public Service Commission. The 10th annual report showed there were 3.9 million telephone lines in the state in 2009, down from 4.19 million
LANSING - Rep. Robert Dean's chief of staff has resigned after a newspaper exposed Noah Seifullah gloating about making a profit off the state through a film credit deal for a studio near Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids Press reported on Seifullah's comments, which were made at a conference in Chicago, in which he said
LANSING - Securitizing the state's tobacco settlement money for a third time was an option proposed during a Wednesday legislative Quadrant meeting on how to solve the current year deficit in the general fund, Gongwer News Service learned. A House source, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed securitization of the state's remaining tobacco settlement money
SAN FRANCSICO - A hacker in a group that discovered the AT&T iPad-related flaw was arrested following the execution of an FBI search warrant of his home in Arkansas on Tuesday, authorities told CNET. Andrew Auernheimer, 24, was being held in Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville, Ark., according to Lt. Anthony Foster of the
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems announced Tuesday that Mike Twarozynski, the company's chief financial officer, has been named CFO of the Year by Crain's Detroit Business. Twarozynski will accept his award at a celebration at the Henry Ford in Dearborn on Wednesday, June 16. Seven winners and five finalists will be honored in a variety
WASHINGTON DC - We don't know yet whether whistle-blowing Web operation Wikileaks has hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents provided by U.S. Army Specialist Bradley Manning or whether it will publish them. But in the meantime Wikileaks' Julian Assange is providing ammunition to those who believe that the fragile new world of
SAN FRANCICSCO - Mozilla released a new Firefox 4 prototype late Monday that builds in support for Google's WebM video technology and several other changes planned for the open-source Web browser's next major version. With WebM, Google hopes to liberate Web video from patent-related royalty constraints of today's prevailing video compression technology, H.264. Mozilla and