LANSING - When Pfizer announced it was moving its Ann Arbor laboratory and some of its other operations out of the state, Gov. Jennifer Granholm quickly announced the availability of loan funds to help displaced employees start new businesses in the state. But with the budget for Fiscal Year 2007-08 still unresolved, the status of
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan scientists have received a pilot grant of nearly $1.3 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to test whether nanoparticles can help wounded solders on the battlefield by administering sustained, safe doses of the most effective painkillers long before they can reach expert medical help. The ultimate goal
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Mozilla released on Tuesday an update to Firefox 2 that patches the Mozilla side of a flaw shared with Microsoft Internet Explorer. The update, Firefox 2.0.0.6, also patches a privilege escalation vulnerability. Current users of Firefox 2 will receive an update notice. Others can download it from the Mozilla site. Researcher
WASHINGTON--The FBI's chief on Thursday attempted to defuse lingering concerns about abuse of secret requests for telephone and e-mail logs, as politicians proposed new limits on the practice. Director Robert Mueller's afternoon appearance before a U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary oversight committee highlighted the lingering fallout over a Justice Department inspector general report issued earlier
LANSING - If proponents of a Michigan public safety surcharge on phones want to raise $135 million annually, they have to make the monthly fee $1.27, not $1.35, as proposed in HB 4852. Mark Wolf with the House Fiscal Agency projects the $1.27 figure based on charging all landline, cell, pre-paid, Voice over Internet Protocol
MENLO PARK, CA -- The proliferation of wireless technologies and feature-rich Internet applications is making it easier for information technology professionals to work outside of the office, so says a new study by Robert Half Technology. The study shows that telecommuting is becoming more commonplace among IT professionals. Nearly half (44 percent) of chief information
LANSING - Smoking would be banned in all Michigan workplaces except for cigar bars that have 30 percent or more of their sales originate from tobacco or tobacco-related products - or 75 percent for retail establishments - under a substituted HB 4163 that was overwhelmingly reported by the House Commerce Committee on Tuesday. An amendment
DETROIT ? Joseph F. Sawasky has been appointed associate vice president for computing and information technology and chief information officer at Wayne State University. The appointment, which was effective July 5, was announced Tuesday by Nancy S. Barrett, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Sawasky is responsible for the university?s centrally provided computing
KALAMAZOO ? Blue-Granite co founder Dan Blackledge has succeeded David Hatfield as the chairman of the advisory board for the Kalamazoo Valley Community College Michigan Technical Education Center. Hatfield, president and chief executive officer of Main Street Savings Bank in Hastings, has held the chairmanship since the KVCC M-TEC opened its doors in March of
WASHINGTON DC - Insurance companies argued that using the reimbursement schedule for worker's compensation to control the costs for no-fault insurance would allow rate cuts, at least in the long run. But Democrats on the House Insurance Committee did not appear ready Wednesday to trade cuts to physicians and hospitals without a guarantee of rate