Events/Announcements

LANSING ? IT consultant Dewpoint announced it has acquired Strategic Advantage Corporation, which the Dewpoint executives said would further develop the company?s public sector practice. Barbara Dawson, Strategic Advantage Corporation president, joins Dewpoint as director of its public-sector practice. Her experience includes numerous large-scale technology installations and strategic planning projects for several divisions within the

GRAND RAPIDS - A new variant of the Sober worm made the network rounds Tuesday, attempting to entice people into clicking on attachments purporting to be threats from the FBI or videos clips of Paris Hilton, the hotel heiress and her reality TV co-star Nicole Richie. Antivirus companies said the worm gained some traction over

LIVONIA ? Readers of Mitechnews.Com and our six eNewsletters can get a 10 percent discount for Food Gifts for the Holidays from KelseyPromo. ?Kelsey really has a nice selection of chocolates, hams, gift baskets, sausage and cheese trays and much more,?? said Mike Brennan, Editor and Publisher of Mitechnews.Com. ?If it?s important to make a

Over the past five years, Michigan's economy has lost 308,900 jobs and will lose another 9,600 jobs in 2006. The state's manufacturing workforce has declined by about 25 percent since 2000 and will lose another 28,600 jobs in the next two years. Six straight years of job losses in Michigan is unprecedented since World War

DETROIT ? SBC Communications - the former Southwestern Bell Company spun out in 1984 by AT&T when Ma Bell was broken up by the federal government ? is again known as AT&T. SBC closed the books Friday on its $16.9 billion acquisition of the former American Telephone & Telegraph Company and adopted its former parent

RESTON ? Consumer spending on non travel goods at U.S. Internet sites will exceed $19 billion during the November-December Holiday shopping season, a 24 percent increase from 2004, comScore Networks announced Monday. "Expectations across all channels for this holiday season have been dampened slightly by high gas prices and wavering consumer confidence," said Gian Fulgoni,

FORT WORTH, Texas ? RadioShack is expected to announce Monday that it will offer net telephone service Skype Technogies as part of its 2005 Holiday shopping promotions. The Luxembourg-based Net telephony company, founded by the people behind the Kazaa peer-to-peer service, will go direct to US consumers at more than 3,000 RadioShack location nationwide. Each

LANSING ? Former Michigan Governor William Milliken in an interview with Gongwer News Service said Michigan?s government leaders must find deliberate ways to ease the growing partisan bickering that has plagued Lansing this year and change or possibly eliminate the Single Business Tax. As it now stands, politics now stands in the way of a

DETROIT ? Another critical vulnerability, found in some versions of Apple Computer's iTunes software, could let attackers remotely seize a user's computer, even if users applied the Apple security patch released last week. eEye Digital Security said the latest flaw existed on the earlier version of iTunes 6 for Windows and was not addressed by

ANN ARBOR ? The good news in this year?s U.S. Economic forecast from the University of Michigan is the nation will add nearly four million new jobs through 2007, but the bad news for investors is interest rates and inflation will rise as well. In their annual forecast of the U.S. economy, economist Saul Hymans