YPSILANTI ? Network security solutions provider XyLocTM announced it has relocated its corporate offices to the Forest Health Services Building in Ypsilanti as the company prepares for rapid growth. Ensure Technologies moved its headquarters to a larger facility shared with Forest Health Services, a XyLoc customer since 1999. The increased office space is designed to
LANSING - Local governments could be forced to layoff as many as 5,000 police and fire fighters if an all cuts solution to the 2007-08 budget is enacted, GoV. Jennifer Granholm said in a radio interview Thursday. But she also expressed confidence that the House will enact a total plan to resolve the budget issue
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan InfraGard is looking for volunteers to staff centers in four Michigan cities that will be participating on Sept. 27 in a Flu Pandemic Exercise. Larry Shattuck, Midwest Region Representative for InfraGard, talks about the exercise in this Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
KALAMAZOO - GLIMASouthwest.Com is hosting a Security seminar at the Fetzer Center at Western Michigan University's campus on Oct. 4 called Shedding New Light On IT Security. In this Newsmaker Interview, Faith Heikkila of PivotGroup, the conference organizer, talks about what attendees can learn about at the Tech Expo 2007. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com
SOUTHFIELD ? Global business intelligence provider Veritas Global has hired Brian Gawne ? president of MotorCity Information Systems Security Association ? to its team as a managing director of computer forensics and IT investigations. ?Brian brings a great deal of computer security and forensic knowledge to our investigative operations,? said Gregory Suhajda, Veritas? chief operating
ANN ARBOR - ForeSee Results this week acquired Red Spade, an online usability consultant, for an undisclosed sum. But the result of the acquisition is ForeSee Results' clients now can add targeted usability audit reviews to help guide online improvements. Using the scientific methodology of the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index, ForeSee Results
GRAND RAPIDS ? Van Andel Institute will present the annual Daniel Nathans Award on Sept. 13 to Harald zur Hausen and Douglas Lowy, two VAI researchers. Zur Hausen?s laboratory helped identify infection by human papillomavirus as the main cause of cervical cancer. Lowy?s studies helped lead to the development of a novel way to prepare
LANSING - Public funds in Michigan could not be invested in companies that do business in countries listed by the U.S. Department of State as sponsoring terrorism under a series of bills and a constitutional amendment Senate Republicans announced on Tuesday. The series of 15 measures could affect the state's use of Credit Suisse as
DETROIT - A net 14 percent of chief information officers in the Detroit area expect to hire information technology professionals in the fourth quarter of 2007, a 3 percent increase from the third quarter, the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report contends. The local results reflect a two-quarter rolling average based on
SOUTHFIELD - Students and recent graduates of Lawrence Technological University are rushing to complete construction on their solar-powered, energy-positive house in time for the Solar Decathlon competition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in October. They have designed and built a house with nearly 700 square feet of living space that will use the