LANSING - The Michigan small business economic climate seems stuck in an ice age but, paradoxically, small business hiring started heating up in the spring of 2005, carving a hole in that glacier. SBAM?s latest quarterly Small Business Barometer survey finds that 18 percent of small business owners hired more workers in the second quarter
SAN FRANCISCO - An outbreak of Trojan horse programs is hitting networks around the world, an e-mail security company has warned. MessageLabs said it has blocked 54,000 copies of new Downloader Trojans since Wednesday. The e-mails, which contain the Trojan horse programs Downloader.abc and Downloader.xz, purport to be spam reports from an IT administrator. The
PLANO, Texas ? By 2010, some 56 million people will be downloading free audio programs, called podcasts, up dramatically from less than a million a year ago, a new report predicts. In five years, three-quarters of all people who own portable digital music players will listen to podcasts, up from less than 15 percent last
LANSING - A bill that would sell three-quarters of the state's annual payments from the national tobacco settlement in exchange for an immediate $3 billion lump-sum payment that would be used to fund technology start ups, Merit Awards and the state Medicaid Benefits Trust Fund was introduced Wednesday in the Michigan House. The bill (HB
SEATTLE - As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft this week said it plans to release three security alerts for flaws in Windows and Office. Two of the security bulletins apply to Windows, and at least one of them is deemed "critical," Microsoft's highest risk rating, the company said in a notice posted on
GRAND RAPIDS ? Computer Products and Resources, a West Michigan IT solutions provider, has hired a senior consultant and two account managers to expand its staff to 115. Christopher Simmons, senior consultant, specializes in storage, Microsoft and Macintosh Platforms, technology infrastructure, consulting and implementation. Prior to joining CPR Chris spent 5 years at Biggs Gilmore
SOUTHFIELD ? LDMI Telecommunications, which this week will become part of the Talk America empire, has expanded its voice and data network into the Greater Lansing and Jackson markets. LDMI?s footprint extends to Lansing and East Lansing, Jackson, Okemos, Albion, Hillsdale and nearby communities. Services provided include the SmarT T1, an integrated local, long distance
DETROIT - nanoScience Engineering Corporation, a spin-out company from Wayne State University, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant of nearly $100,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop a manufacturing process for nano-structured composite materials. The phase one SBIR project will identify the optimum supercritical fluid processing conditions and compare these technologies
SEATTLE - Microsoft has issued a security advisory for Internet Explorer, after a research firm published a working exploit to demonstrate how attackers could take advantage of the flaw, CNET.Com reported. The vulnerability, discovered by SEC Consult, mean that attackers could cause the browser to unexpectedly exit and execute arbitrary code. Versions of IE affected
PALO ALTO - Hewlett-Packard has bulked up its iPod lineup by adding the smallest of the Apple-designed music devices, the iPod Shuffle. HP last month added the iPod Mini to its stable, which also includes 20GB and 60GB Apple iPods. HP is now selling two versions of the Shuffle: a 512MB model for $99.99, which