LANSING - Senate Republicans placed a bull's-eye Tuesday on public employee pay and benefits as the centerpiece of their efforts to restructure the cost of government, calling for government workers to take a 5 percent pay cut and pay 20 percent of their health insurance premiums. The sweeping plan, which would accomplish the pay cut
MINNEAPOLIS - Seventy-four percent of organizations experienced a data loss incident at their workplace in the last two years. This is one of the key findings of a new survey launched in North America today by Kroll Ontrack, a provider of data recovery and legal technologies products and services. The problem of data loss -
STAMFORD, Conn. - IT budgets will essentially be flat in 2010, increasing by a weighted global average of 1.3 percent in nominal terms, Compared with 2009 levels where IT budgets declined 8.1 percent, that's not bad at all. These are among the results from the 2010 CIO survey by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP). 2009 was
GRAND RAPIDS - Grand Rapids Community College has landed $4 million in stimulus money to train more than 1,000 inner-city residents for green jobs. Those jobs - in energy-efficient building construction, renewable energy and advanced battery manufacturing - pay between $12 and $28 an hour. "We are going to train a lot of people for
BIRMINGHAM - Last Tuesday Google announced that they had been hacked by sources in China. The target was email accounts of Chinese activists and bloggers. An outraged Google threatened to discontinue censoring search results at the Google China search engine google.cn. Yahoo chimed in support of Google. Yahoo of course is another Internet company with
ANN ARBOR - MichBio, Michigan's life sciences trade association, has launched a 2010 membership campaign with the theme, "It Pays To Belong." The group represents roughly one-third of the biosciences organizations in the state, and hopes to increase its membership to at least a majority. "MichBio has made a lot of progress over the past
SAN JOSE - The China-based cyberattacks on Google and other companies were "a watershed moment in cybersecurity," according to an executive at computer security company McAfee. "I believe this is the largest and most sophisticated cyberattack we have seen in years targeted at specific corporations," McAfee Chief Technology Officer George Kurtz wrote on his blog
ANN ARBOR - Four companies recently received a combined total of $170,000 in funding from the Michigan Microloan Fund Program. CTC Holdings, Energy Management Devices, MemCatch and Motor City Wipers will use the microloan funding to commercialize their products and accelerate business growth. CTC Holdings is commercializing advanced VOCs-to-Energy Products that convert VOC emissions into
LIVONIA - Fisker Automotive has contracted with Boston-based A123 Systems to supply battery packs for the forthcoming Fisker Karma plug-in electric car, which is due in late 2010. The battery packs will be built at A123's Livonia and Romulus operations, adding some 500 jobs. The intent is to also supply batteries for Project Nina, a
LANSING - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be handing out $475 million in grants under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and legislators urged Thursday that Michigan receive funding proportionate to its role in the basin. Cameron Davis, senior advisor to the Environmental Protection Agency on Great Lakes policy, told a joint meeting of the