LANSING - Attorney General Bill Schuette has filed a class-action lawsuit against AmeriGas under Michigan's Consumer Protection Act charging the company gouged customers with high-priced propane during the ferocious 2013-14 winter. In a separate action, Schuette said he has reached an agreement with Ferrellgas to provide some 600 customers with more than $100,000 in cost
DETROIT ? Registration is now open for 1DEVDAY 2014, one of the most important gathering place for Metro-Detroit's community of software developers. Register before September 26th and you can take 15 percent off. The event is scheduled for November 15 on the newly renovated 2nd floor of Detroit's Cobo Conference Center. Lunch will be provided
LANSING - A televised town hall-style debate between Governor Rick Snyder and his Democratic rival Mark Schauer will be held on Sunday, October 12, meaning the candidates will face off at least once in a televised event during the 2014 campaign. The debate was announced late Monday, with a spokesperson for Schauer saying the event
CUPERTINO, Ca. - The next version of Android will for the first time encrypt data by default, Google confirmed last week, preventing both thieves and law enforcement officials from gaining access to personal information on the devices running the web giant's mobile operating system. While data encryption has been optional on Android smartphones and tablets
LANSING - Nominations open Sept. 29 for the 2015 Michigan Celebrates Small Business awards program, a prestigious annual competition that recognizes successful growing businesses and their supporters. The winners will be honored at the 11th annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business event on May 7, 2015. Last year, nearly 1,000 people attended the state?s premier awards
CUPERTINO, Ca. ? Apple said Monday that its first weekend sales for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus topped 10 million units, another record. Apple didn't break out sales between the two models, though the iPhone 6 Plus seemed to be a much harder device to find over the weekend. "Sales for iPhone 6 and
LANSING - Michigan's sales tax revenues topped $7 billion for the first time in history during the 2012-13 fiscal year, a report from the Department of Treasury shows, but the tax base is "being eroded rapidly" by increasing retail sales through the Internet and mail order. So-called remote sales sapped an estimated $410 million from
CUPERTINO - Apple published a long list of iOS 8 security changes on Wednesday as the operating system update got delivered to users. While Apple credited many independent security experts, it continued to not differentiate bugs by severity and buried the fix to a major vulnerability. The most notable fix of the Apple Knowledge Base
SOUTHFIELD - Wayne State University has received a grant from Silicon Mechanics that provides WSU with a computer research cluster at its Computing Services Center. The HPC cluster includes hardware and software donated by Intel, NVIDIA, HGST, Mellanox Technologies, Supermicro, Seagate, Kingston Technology, Bright Computing, and LSI Logic. This year?s HPC cluster contains eight compute
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation on Wednesday announced the Michigan Strategic Fund approval of issuance of bonds for the new events center in Detroit, as well as renewal of the State Trade and Export Program and incentives to 11 business expansions and community improvement projects around the state. The authorization of the issuance