PLEASANT RIDGE ? Interactive Promotions company ePrize on Monday announced the hiring of Craig Sprinkle as Chief Financial Officer, and the promotion of Roy Krauthamer to Vice President of Fulfillment Services. As CFO, Sprinkle is responsible for overseeing all finance, accounting, treasury and purchasing operations for the company. He brings over 15 years of financial
ANN ARBOR--The University Research Corridor presidents Monday outlined their vision on how to stimulate technology transfer, business development, and increase the level of cooperation among the University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Michigan State University to help invigorate the state's floundering economy. Speaking at a URC conference that drew leaders from across the nation,
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan and Ann Arbor SPARK said on Monday they plan to fill a former Pfizer facility with U-M researchers and four life sciences startups ? the first tenants of a new wet lab incubator. Wet labs, highly sophisticated, climate-controlled, specially ventilated research facilities, are far more expensive than typical
LANSING - Homeowners facing foreclosures on their mortgages would have refinancing options through the Michigan State Housing Development Authority under legislation proposed Friday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm and legislative Democrats. Michigan has one of the nation's highest foreclosure rates, ranking fourth, as the number has doubled since 2006 to an estimated 83,000 this year. The
HOWELL ? The Michigan Homeland Security Consortium will host on December 4 its second annual venture and angel capital symposium at Cleary University. The MIHSC will bring together capital sources interested in funding high-tech companies involved in homeland security, defense and critical infrastructure. Many venture and angel forums are broad in nature, while this event
GRAND RAPIDS ? Paul Hightower, a senior level official for the Department of Homeland Security, will discus at Grand Valley State University on Nov. 6 private sector participation in security planning. Hightower, Deputy Director, Infrastructure and Coordination Division, Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, Department of Homeland Security, also wants to know what?s on
SAN JOSE, Ca. - McAfee Inc. has announced the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance, a new program for technology companies who want to integrate with McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). The program offers a set of tools designed to help integrate third-party applications with the company's security and compliance risk management technology. "Traditionally, security products have been
SAN DIEGO, Ca. - The summer of 2007 may have been a hot one but in the case of spam and virus activity, it was downright cool, according to St. Bernard Software Inc., a global provider of security appliances and on-demand solutions. The average number of messages St. Bernard's customers received per day dropped nearly
CAMPBELL, Ca. - If all things were equal, 53 per cent of 228 U.S.-based IT security professionals surveyed would deploy open source security software versus 47 per cent that would use a commercial product for similar functionality, according to a recent study conducted by Barracuda Networks Inc., a provider of e-mail and Web security appliances.
YPSILANTI ? Eastern Michigan University will be dedicating its Experiential Learning Center, aimed at training the next generation of Information Assurance professionals on Oct. 25. The new 15,000 square foot security lab is the brainchild of Gerald ?Skip? Lawver, an Associate Professor in the School of Technology Studies at EMU as well as Director of