DETROIT - A new Trojan horse program was infecting PCS last week, exploiting a hole in Windows systems to sneak onto computers, then dropping adware or spyware or turning them into zombies, Internet security companies warned. The Trojan, dubbed Exploit-WMF (Windows Meta File), was rated a category 2 level risk, meaning it had the potential
DETROIT ? iPods, Video games, coats and jewelry helped online merchants record record sales during the just completed Holiday shopping season. Mega eTailer Amazon.Com said it had its best holiday sales season ever, with more than 108 million items ordered from Nov. 1 through Dec. 21. The busiest day for the world's largest online store
LONDON ? Some 28 million cars in the United States and 73 million worldwide will be equipped with iPod integration solutions of one kind or another by 2011, TRG Forecasts predicts. The proliferation of automotive interfaces for portable music players is creating a new competitive landscape driven by music listening and device preferences. From iPod
TROY - 2006 will be a year of continued transition for Michigan?s economy, writes Ken Rogers, Executive Director of Automation Alley. Our domestic vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers will continue to reshape themselves into a more sustainable business model. At Automation Alley, our emphasis is on where we are going not where we have been.
ANN ARBOR - We all have experience in economic ups and downs, writes Larry Eiler, chairman of Eiler Communications. Now, Michigan is being lambasted over the affect that globalization and other parts of the already established or emerging world competition is having on ?our? auto industry as well as other businesses of our once stellar
TROY ? Automaton Alley and GLIMASoutheast member Phil Rosette, Author of ?The Freya Project,? will be reading from his suspense novel, autographing copies, and answering reader?s questions at two Michigan book lover?s nooks in January. On Thursday, January 5th, Phil Rosette will be appearing at the St. Clair Library, 310 south Second Street, St. Clair
LANSING - Meeting for the first-time since the 21st Century Jobs Fund was signed into law, the Michigan Strategic Fund was encouraged Wednesday to move quickly on creating a distribution model for about $300 million dollars in tobacco settlement securitization money that will go to fund Michigan technology start ups. Headed by James Epolito from
ANN ARBOR ? Don?t want to attend that Holiday party this year but can?t think up a good enough excuse getting out of it? Interactive marketing company Enlighten has got you covered with its online Holiday Party Excuse Generator. The interactive invitation, created by the elves at Enlighten, provides 268 million different possibilities for backing
GRAND RAPIDS - Don't open media files from sources you don't trust ? your computer could get hacked, a security researcher warned Wednesday. Tom Ferris, an independent security researcher, has provided more details on a security flaw in Apple Computer's popular iTunes and QuickTime software that could put systems running Windows and Mac OS X
WASHINGTON DC ? This may be the last holiday season to enjoy tax-free Internet shopping, thanks to new legislation in the U.S. Congress. Two bills introduced Wednesday propose sweeping changes to how Americans are taxed for online and mail order purchases. The changes would bring more taxes to Michigan. Businesses initially would be required to