ANN ARBOR - Holiday shoppers report higher satisfaction with the web shopping experience this week compared to both last week and last year. Online shopper satisfaction rose 1.7 percent to a score of 77.6 on a 100-point scale for the week of Dec. 3-9, a 3.3 percent higher rating than the same week in 2006.
LANSING - A package of bills now before the Michigan House Energy and Technology Committee would mean higher electric rates for residents and businesses, a group representing those customers and alternative electric suppliers said Monday. Members of the Customer Choice Coalition said at a press conference that the package (HB 5520 , HB 5521 ,
LANSING - Electric utilities in Michigan would have to provide 10 percent of their power from renewable sources under legislation expected before the House Energy and Technology Committee. Sponsors of the legislation, which had not yet been introduced at the time of the committee meeting, said the goal was to urge development and use of
LANSING ? Teri Takai, director of the Michigan Department of Information Technology since February 2003, has resigned to take a job in California. She has been replaced by Kenneth Theis, who was Takai?s deputy. Theis assumes his new duties on Jan. 1. "I thank Director Takai for her five years of dedicated service to the
LANSING ? The deadline for applications for the Michigan 50 Companies To Watch recognition program has been extended from Dec. 7 to Dec. 14 to get a bigger response. Each year, Michigan 50 Companies to Watch recognizes and celebrates the contributions, innovation and energy of 50 diverse second-stage companies in Michigan. Michigan 50 Companies to
LANSING ? Michigan homeowners facing financial trouble with subprime mortgages, burdensome interest under adjustable rate mortgages or who fell behind in payments after losing their jobs would get help under a package of bills that cleared the House on Tuesday. The bills authorize the Michigan State Housing Development Authority to refinance loans at lower rates,
GRAND HAVEN ? eTool Developers has hired a new president, John Zinn who most recently served as director of marketing for Stillen. Zinn has more than 15 years of experience in the automotive aftermarket industry including retail, manufacturing, distribution, and publishing experience as well as web site, forum, and e-commerce development, implementation and management. ?eTool
DETROIT - A net 8 percent of chief information officers in the Detroit area expect to hire information technology professionals in the first quarter of 2008, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. Thirteen percent of executives surveyed plan to add staff during the quarter and 5 percent
SOUTHFIELD ? Congress has given Lawrence Technological University an early Christmas present ? a $1 million appropriation that will be used to build an environmental testing chamber for vehicle components that will be used by the U.S. military. Lawrence Tech said the addition to its Center for Innovative Materials Research should be completed by next
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Symantec has found active exploit code in the wild for an unpatched Apple QuickTime vulnerability. Researcher Joji Hamada wrote in Symantec's Security Response Weblog on Saturday that the company had seen an active exploit for the vulnerability in Apple's media-streaming program that could lead to users downloading Trojan software. Hamada said the