LANSING - The driving factors in attracting workers in the "new economy" are different between metropolitan communities and rural areas, according to a final report out of the Land Policy Institute at Michigan State University. As Michigan looks to recover from the loss of more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs over the past eight years, falling
LANSING - Development of advanced batteries and the vehicles that will use them is an important sign of the future viability of the U.S. automotive industry, Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Tuesday. Speaking to reporters shortly after the Michigan Economic Growth Authority approved tax breaks for four advanced battery manufacturing centers in the state, Granholm said
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - EBay Inc. said it would spin off its Internet-calling business Skype through an initial public offering in the first half of next year, after the online auctioneer faced calls for months to unload the company, which has fallen short of expectations. "Skype is a great stand-alone business with strong fundamentals and
ROCHESTER HILLS - Michael Thibideau, CIO at Webasto North America, is the ConnecTech Mentor of the Month. To learn more about this mentorship program, which pairs verteran CIOs with up and comers, listen to this Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
TRAVERSE CITY - Brian Hall, vice president of the ConnecTech Grand Traverse Bay chapter, is the April member profile on the ConnecTech Channel. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
AUBURN HILLS - Will Fiat's CEO, Sergio Marchione, become the CEO of Chrysler as well? That's from a report in Italian newspaper La Stampa. Of course, we always knew that Bob Nardelli was brought in by Cerberus to run Chrysler for a limited amount of time, until he got its finances cleaned up. My assumption
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Trend Micro wants its existing channel solution partners to aggressively sell into a rapidly growing SaaS security market by way of its complete, channel-friendly portfolio of hosted endpoint, hosted email and hosted Website security products for small and medium-sized businesses, and it is launching a new SaaS for the Channel program to
Microsoft has decided to delay its integrated security suite, codenamed Stirling, until the fourth quarter of 2009. Stirling was initially supposed to ship in the first half of this year. According to Microsoft, the company will begin releasing the suite in the fourth quarter of 2009 with the launch of Forefront Server Security for Exchange
YPSILANTI - The Information Assurance program at Eastern Michigan University is sponsoring a special class for Enterprise Incident Response. If you are a network administrator or involved with network security this class is a must for you. Course Description: Principles and practices to address computer incident response for modern enterprise computing environments. Tools, techniques, and
REDMOND - The use of scareware and exploits that take advantage of common file formats like PDF, Excel and Word rose in the second half of last year as online scammers realized people are getting smarter about recognizing spam and phishing e-mails, according to a Microsoft security report released last week. There was a significant