ROCHESTER - Kenneth M. Root, director of membership for the Small Business Association of Michigan, was recognized with an a 2014 ?Emerging Leader? Diamond Award Wed. Sept. 17 during the Michigan Society of Association Executive?s 13th Annual Diamond Awards Banquet in Rochester. Root was recognized for his contributions to the association industry and potential future
LANSING - Gongwer News Service Thursday unveiled two major new features to its pioneering bill tracking system that allow subscribers greater flexibility and utility in following legislation. The first change enables subscribers to track bills by general category. Under the new service, a subscriber identifies the categories he or she wants to follow. When new
SOUTHFIELD - The United States is joining an international student competition for robot design for the first time this year, and on Sept. 27, Lawrence Technological University will host the first-ever national championships to determine who will represent their country at the World Robot Olympiad. The competition will be held from 9 a.m. to 4
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
CUPERTINO - Apple is beefing up iCloud's security following promises by CEO Tim Cook to take stronger measures in the aftermath of the high-profile breaching of accounts belonging to celebrities who use the service. Apple quietly reactivated two-factor authentication for iCloud on Tuesday, according to MacRumors.com, after the feature was initially tested but then disabled
DETROIT - Over the years, Detroit has held many titles and nicknames, many of them negative - which is why, as the city works to reinvent itself, one local woman is on a mission to crown it the "Little Free Library capital of the world." Kim Kozlowski wants to raise enough money over the next
LANSING - Bills that would allow terminally ill patients the right to try drugs that have only gone through the first phase of Food and Drug Administration testing were sent to the House floor on Tuesday by the House Health Policy Committee. SB 991 would create the Right to Try Act, allowing individuals with terminal
LANSING - After Governor Rick Snyder signed HB 4465 , current high school seniors suddenly were required to have two credits of foreign language rather than one. But on Wednesday, the House Education Committee reported a bill that would fix the inadvertent change. Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R-Alto), sponsor of HB 5793 and chair of
DETROIT - Will you be buying a new iPhone 6 or 6 Plus? Yakeem Tatum, host and founder of Urban Nation Radio, Apple Payment: The Ultimate Digital Security? MITechNews.Com headlines. To listen, Click on InternetAdvisor.Org
LANSING - Republican Governor Rick Snyder has a small, but statistically insignificant, lead over Democratic challenger Mark Schauer, and Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters leads Republican Terri Land in the U.S. Senate race, according to a new poll. Snyder received 43 percent to 40 percent for Schauer in the telephone interview survey of 600 likely