DEARBORN - Ford is testing an array of new active crash-avoidance and driver-aid technologies it will introduce in 2009 by driving prototypes into large, car-shaped balloons to help customers avoid real accidents. Engineers use the balloons as target practice at Ford's Dearborn Development Center to test the company's new Adaptive Cruise Control with Collision Warning
RESTON, Va. - comScore released its Fourth Quarter 2008 retail e-commerce sales estimates, which showed that online retail spending declined 3 percent versus year ago, the first recorded quarter of negative growth since comScore began tracking e-commerce spending in 2001. Nonetheless, for the full year 2008, retail e-commerce grew 6 percent to $130.1 billion, but
SAN FRANCISCO - On Thursday, a coalition of tech companies and nonprofit groups ranging from Microsoft to ICANN, AOL, Symantec, F-Secure and Verisign announced that they've teamed up to put an end to the Conficker worm, also known as Downadup, that has infected as many as 12 million computers, Microsoft has even offered $250,000 to
MIDLAND - Midland Tomorrow and Saginaw Future Inc. Thursday launched a dynamic partnership to attract new solar business investment to the region. The Great Lakes Bay Economic Development Partnership is a marketing collaboration that will present a unified marketing message and help stimulate the region's solar industry. "The three economic development organizations have worked cooperatively
LANSING - Economic development efforts for many years focused on bringing in new business: providing the tax incentives or the site, or both, for the new plant. But two separate presentations Wednesday said that focus on jobs could be misplaced in the new economy. "Is it jobs first or quality of life first?" said Rep.
LANSING - While a bleak picture is likely to be painted in the governor's 2009-10 budget, which will include layoffs as the proposal seeks overall general fund cuts of at least $600 million, it appears there will be no cuts to revenue sharing nor to Michigan's 28 community colleges. But the state's per-pupil foundation grant
GRAND RAPIDS - The Van Andel Institute has created an alliance with the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, which will share newly appointed VAI Research Director Jeffrey Trent to speed cancer research into commercialized products. Trent, Ph.D., will succeed founding VAI Research Director George Vande Woude, Ph.D., who stays on as head of the
DETROIT - SciTech Development is working on a new drug delivery system that could help attack eight different types of cancer, including some of the real bad ones such as pancreatic and breast. In this TechTown channel interview, SciTech President Earle Holsapple discusses the company's R&D efforts and its attempt to raise $7 million to
TROY - Doug Stratton, president of the Stratton Foundation, has been selected as the ConnecTech January 2009 Member of the Month. Stratton is a member of the ConnecTech Greater Detroit Chapter. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
LANSING - Michigan's U.S. Senate members said Tuesday that the $838 billion stimulus bill that chamber passed on Tuesday will help put Michigan residents back to work once it takes effect, but the stimulus plan got mixed support from the House, which passed a resolution on largely a party-line vote supporting the stimulus measure. The