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EGHAM, United Kingdom - Global sales of smartphones topped 1.4 billion units in 2015, up a whopping 14.4 percent from the year before, Gartner Inc. said in a report released Thursday. But in the fourth quarter of last year, smartphone sales only increased 9.7 percent from the same three months in 2014, the slowest growth
WASHINGTON DC - Wind energy installed more electric generating capacity last year than any other energy source in America, contends a report by The American Wind Energy Association. “These impressive results drive home the point that Wind is a cost-effective solution that makes business sense,” said Chris Brown, President of Vestas, Americas. “More than 500
ANN ARBOR - While Americans can do a lot of little things in their daily lives to help reduce carbon emissions, driving a vehicle that gets better gas mileage is by far the best way for an individual to combat climate change, University of Michigan researchers said in a report released this week. The study
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Small Business Development Center and Small Business Association of Michigan launched a joint research project designed to help determine what resources small and medium-size Michigan companies need for future success. The research project kicked off February 10 with a survey of small business owners to learn more about what kind
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University is now a co-sponsor of a news blog covering high technology in Michigan. TechCentury.com is the online version of TechCentury, the magazine of The Engineering Society of Detroit. LTU recently hired Matt Roush as managing editor of its news bureau. He had been director of communications and public relations at
LANSING - There are several states yet to hold caucuses and primaries before Michigan's March 8 presidential primary that will help shape the Democratic contest between former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, but a new survey shows Clinton leading with 50 percent to 40 percent. Powering Clinton
ANN ARBOR - The spacecraft engine that will help take humans to Mars may be based on a University of Michigan prototype. NASA gave this dream new credibility by funding a spaceflight propulsion system to be built around a tabletop-sized thruster developed by Alec Gallimore, the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering
FERNDALE - Is software patentable? Yes, according to attorney Andrew Basile Jr., managing partner of Young Basile, an intellectual property law firm based in Troy, but with offices in Ann Arbor, Chicago, and Silicon Valley. Basile is joined in the conversation by Keith Schonberger, an associate in the firm’s Troy office. Schonberger concentrates his practices
WASHINGTON DC - President Obama wants the United States to spend $19 billion across a broad range of initiatives, all with the aim of making it harder for hackers to steal information from individuals, companies and government agencies - a whopping 35 percent increase over the previous year's budget. That money, for example, would promote
DETROIT - DTX Launch Detroit, a 10-week technology startup accelerator for college students and recent graduates, is accepting applications for summer 2016. The application period closes on April 22. An information session will be held on February 24 from 6-8pm at TechTown Detroit, 440 Burroughs, Detroit. “DTX Launch Detroit is an intensive, real-world acceleration program,”
