DETROIT - Forget Kim Kardashian...I think we accidentally broke the internet last week. Or at least our site came close to breaking. One of our posts trended worldwide, and whacky mayhem ensued...but more on that in a moment. We've got several entries for you to check out, we're going to experiment and tweak the way
LANSING - StudentsFirst Vice President of State Affairs and former State Representative Tim Melton made the following statement regarding Governor Rick Snyder's State of the State speech. During the speech, Gov. Snyder called for the implementation of teacher and administrator evaluation as well as continued efforts to improve pre-school through 3rd grade reading: "I applaud
WASHINGTON DC - Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, never dreamed he'd be fodder for late-night TV comedians. But 12 months into his agency's rewrite of rules governing Internet access, he's still trying to explain his plan for saving the Internet. A former wireless and cable industry lobbyist and venture capitalist appointed to
CUPERTINO - Apple has a lot to do to top 2014. This year, Apple introduced larger screen iPhones, showed off its first wearable and launched a mobile-payments service. That was on top of updates to its Mac and tablet lines and improvements in its mobile and computer software. Apple also made its biggest acquisition ever
NOVI - Events of 2014 have trigged more changes in Michigan?s energy landscape than we?ve seen in a number of years. More renewable energy is coming online, and plans are being made to shut down number of coal-based generation units around the state as new federal clean air standards phase in. Each of these changes
DETROIT - Returning to its roots as a mainframe software provider, Compuware has spun off is application performance management software unit. Users of mainframe optimization software and APM software could each benefit from the split. The companies acting separately should be better able to serve constituents than a monolithic single entity could, say the respective
DETROIT - Small and medium-sized businesses are quickly moving to the cloud. And they?re finding that cloud-based services - software as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service provided by vendors from remote locations ?in the cloud? - offer advantages over terrestrial products. For example, with these applications, SMBs can more
DETROIT - To meet customer demands, Internet service providers, in general, are now doubling network speeds every two years?while at the same time, significantly reducing the costs of this faster bandwidth. Having greater bandwidth at lower cost is important to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It gives them?for the first time?the ability to compete successfully
ANN ARBOR ? I don?t often take the opportunity to write directly to my readers and listeners, but MITechNews.Com has so much great news to announce I wanted to share it with you in our Guest Column. Hi. I?m Mike Brennan, Editor and Publisher of MITechNews.Com. I founded the web news portal site in the
DETROIT - Over the past few years, big data has caught the attention of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in a big way. Why? Because SMBs have learned that, like their larger counterparts, they, too, can use big data to cost effectively mine all the information collected about their customers, businesses or competitors. Now SMBs