WASHINGTON D.C. - The US Small Business Administration has recently announced a new series of live web chats that offer an opportunity for small business owners to interact with leading entrepreneurs and agency officials. The inaugural web chat will be held July 21, beginning at 1 PM EDT. J. Scott Plank, Chief Administrative Officer of
DETROIT - A growing chorus of reports suggest that hybrid vehicles such as the Toyota Prius are falling well short of their promised fuel economy. And even a senior Toyota researcher recently admitted that it is difficult to justify the added cost of hybrid technology by the savings on fuel. Yet when it comes to
DETROIT - Henry Ford Health System has cut a multi-year contract with Reliance Software Systems of Farmington Hills to use the company?s next generation electronic medical record system. Terms were not announced. RelWare suppliers web-based clinical applications for healthcare providers in the acute care setting. The additional architecture and development will be based off of
LANSING - With the Legislature not moving on a plan to provide guaranteed increases to education, the K-16 Coalition is now planning to take the proposal directly to the voters, which would ask voters to guarantee inflationary increases for all K-12 schools, community colleges and universities. "We don't see any interest in the Legislature at
HOLLAND ? Sixty percent of large west Michigan companies say they will hire new information technology staff before the end of 2005 - double the number of companies with more than 1000 employees that planned technology employment increases for the first half of the year. This trend is another encouraging economic sign for the technology
LANSING - If the state does decide to securitize a portion of its tobacco settlement monies, the funds should be for economic development purposes only, the two Senate leaders said Thursday. Even then, Senate Minority Leader Bob Emerson (D-Flint) said he needed more convincing of the value of securitization, while Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema
GRAND RAPIDS ? Clinical Systems Implementations will be the topic of a conference July 28-29 by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in downtown Grand Rapids. Clinical System Implementations: The Road Less Traveled will highlight trends in the design and installation of productive healthcare information systems, and success
TROY - Automation Alley has retained for the next three years as its general counsel Raymond & Prokop, an active member of Southeast Michigan?s regional technology cluster. Raymond & Prokop maintains a big tax practice and has been branching out into technology, health care, real estate, automotive, manufacturing, non-profit, banking and Indian law. ?This is
DETROIT - The 47-percent boost in sales at General Motors last month didn?t pull in as many customers from other automakers as GM hoped, according to new information from J.D. Power and Associates? Power Information Network (PIN). GM?s employee-discount program pulled forward customers who would have otherwise waited to buy a new GM product, rather
BOSTON - Two serious security flaws in a technology widely used for network authentication could expose a bunch of software products to hacker attack, experts warned Thursday. The flaws could allow an online intruder to crash or gain access to computers running Kerberos, a freely available authentication technology that was developed by the Massachusetts Institute