GRAND RAPIDS - Who is your competition? Competitors include other suppliers who provide similar products (direct competitors) as well as those who provide a product in the same general category (indirect competitors). For example, a retail video rental store competes with other video rental companies, and also with other forms of entertainment such as movie
AUBURN HILLS - Delphi and XM Satellite Radio will roll out just in time for the Christmas shopping season a new satellite radio receiver that can store and manage up to 10 hours of XM programming, as well as an unlimited number of MP3, WMA and WAV files through removable SD cards. A quick-connection capability
ANN ARBOR - The new rules of Federal Civil Procedure (FRCP) become effective December 1. Is your company ready? Are you aware how your company has been storing your electronic information? Are your network architecture maps current? Unfortunately, litigation is part of corporate life (and the annual budget). The new FRCP rules are cause for
DETROIT - Internet Explorer version 7.0 was released on Oct. 18. Don't update and block your automatic updates to make sure you don't get it without your permission. The InfraGard site is not compatible. The news was contained in a Tech Notice sent to all InfraGard members by related to adoption of the new IE7
WASHINGTON DC - President Bush last Friday signed into law a bill slapping more restrictions on online gambling. The odd thing, though, is that at his press conference, Bush mentioned neither gambling nor the Internet. That's because the restrictions were buried in Section 801 of a massive port security bill, which had nothing to do
TROY - Jennifer Granholm hasn't done enough to save your job. Dick DeVos has sent Michigan manufacturing jobs to China. Turn on the television or radio, pick up a newspaper or log onto your favorite Web site and you are likely to get bombarded with either of these lines. Personally, I don?t think either is
LANSING - Every year, the federal government authorizes spending of almost $1 trillion for goods and services that range from purchasing pencils to Apache helicopters, including research and development projects. Yet with all this opportunity, small businesses tend to shy away from implementing a government affairs strategy that would help them get government appropriations, grants,
WHITMORE LAKE - Many organizations are expending enormous resources working to improve how they do projects. They see a significant opportunity to improve the competitiveness of their organization by improving what most consider dismal performance in projects. Project Management Organizations are being designed and implemented to lead these organizational efforts to improve project performance. While
DETROIT - A more dynamic workforce means the list of people requiring network access changes every day. Employees, contractors and other short-term network users must be provisioned by the IT staff, often using a manual, time-consuming process that does not meet just-in-time business requirements or provide an adequate record for auditing and regulatory compliance. Manually
FARMINGTON HILLS - Content filtering solutions are used primarily to limit and or log access to specific Web sites on the internet. These solutions are usually located just inside the corporate firewall and can either be placed in-line or are queried. Both of these strategies have their pros and cons. The in-line variety content filter