LANSING - A list of some 50 issues needing to be addressed in the rewriting of Michigan Telecommunications Act has been identified by a workgroup formed by the Senate Technology and Energy Committee, and the list could get longer. The members of the workgroup were urged to add any other issues they think have bearing
LANSING ? Banking and credit complaints ? including identity theft ? continue to lead the annual list of top consumer complaints of 2004 released Thursday by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox. Complaints related to Internet use came in third. "Identity theft dominates the Top 10 list and I want to prevent identity theft by educating
SAN FRANCISCO - A new variant of the Bropia worm that uses MSN Messenger to spread is attacking unprotected computers on the Internet. The Bropia.F worm is packaged with a second, more damaging worm that tries to exploit poorly patched computers. The latest variant of the Bropia worm was discovered on Wednesday evening, reported Security
HOLLAND ? More than half of West Michigan's small companies say they will hire new information technology personnel before July, Paragon Recruiting reported in its Technology Employment Forecast for the first half of 2005. Fifty-two percent of companies employing less than 50 people expect to hire new IT staff during the first half of 2005,
WASHINGTON DC ? Identity theft and consumer fraud last year cost Americans $548 million, more than $100 million than the year before, statistics released by the Federal Trade Commission reported Tuesday. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it received 635,000 consumer complaints in 2004. Identity theft topped the list with 247,000 complaints, up 15 percent
SOUTHFIELD ? Former Michigan State Rep. Marc Shulman will lead the new government relations office he has established in Lansing for Raymond & Prokop. Shulman also will lead the law firm?s lobbying efforts. Shulman, a member of the Michigan House of Representatives since 1998, comes to R&P after serving as the chair of the Michigan
SAN ANTONIO ? AT&T, the company founded 130 years ago by telephone creator Alexander Graham Bell, has tentatively been acquired by SBC Communications in an all stock deal worth $16 billion - creating the nation?s largest phone company. SBC is the dominant telephone company in Michigan as well. If approved by regulators, the deal combines
ANN ARBOR - Vehicles with gasoline-electric hybrid and advanced diesel powertrains could capture nearly 11 percent the U.S. light vehicle market by 2009, but because most of these new drive trains are built overseas, a consumer shift to hybrids could cost Michigan, Indiana and Ohio more auto manufacturing jobs. A new report issued by OSAT
GRAND RAPIDS ? Michigan Senate Republicans unveiled a plan Monday to create a $50 million technology commercialization fund ? a direct response to technology-friendly tax changes proposed last week by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The Seed Capital Fund is aimed at helping start up life sciences company, the reason why Van Andel Institute served as the
ANN ARBOR ? The Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship, a joint effort of eight state organizations, may have reached critical mass Jan. 27 when some 250 entrepreneurs, investors and other attendees packed the Morris Lawrence Building auditorium at Washtenaw Community College. The fifth annual event featured a keynote by Dwight Carlson, CEO of Coherix Corp. as