LIVONIA - TRW Automotive Holdings announced that its self-adaptive seat belt load limiting technology, capable of automatically adapting to different body sizes of passengers, has been shortlisted as an Automotive News PACE Award finalist. The winners will be announced on April 11, 2011. The Automotive News PACE Awards honor superior innovation, technological advancement and business
ANN ARBOR - Mass Times has recently selected Online Tech as their managed data center partner. The Mass Times ministry, based in Boston, manages MassTimes.Org a multi-language website that provides locations and worship times for over 110,000 churches worldwide. Catholics that are outside of their diocesan boundaries are able to search for mass times and
ROCHESTER HILLS - Emission control technologies manufacturer Emitec has signed an agreement with Ford Performance Vehicles of Australia to supply low backpressure catalytic converters for their line of high performance vehicles powered by Ford?s new 5.0L Coyote V8 engine. The new catalyst technology uses a perforated, ultra-thin-foil metallic substrate designed to withstand the highest exhaust
NOVI - Dynamic Intelligent Solutions Tuesday launched its patent-pending process called ChamberCam that combines photogrammetry hardware and software with current thermal management technology to provide product engineers the ability to accurately measure parts in real time during thermal cycling in an environmental chamber. "Until now, manufacturers could only measure a product before and after it
DEARBORN - Ford Motor Co. Monday announced plans to invest an additional $850 million in Michigan between 2011 and 2013 across a variety of plants including Van Dyke Transmission, Sterling Axle, Livonia Transmission and Dearborn Truck Plant. The company expects the expansion will create 300 salaried and 900 hourly jobs. The expansion is part of
MUSKEGON - Alltel and AT&T will host a Weekend of Fun in Muskegon, one of AT&T's recently acquired markets, to remind Alltel subscribers to replace their current phone or data device with a new one from AT&T to avoid interruption of their wireless service. By visiting WeekendOfFun.Com eligible Alltel customers in Muskegon can receive up
ANN ARBOR - The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year $2.65 million grant to the Internet2 Middleware Initiative to advance collaboration for virtual organizations. Over the last decade, the Internet2 community has developed foundational authentication and authorization tools such as Shibboleth Federated and Single Sign-on System, Grouper Groups Management Toolkit, and COmanage Collaborative Management
ANN ARBOR - Marisa Smith, President of The Whole Brain Group, has partnered with Made in USA Certified to form a strategic business alliance that will focus on fostering technological growth and expansion for U.S.A- based service and manufacturing businesses. The Whole Brain Group recently became ?Service in USA Certified and has developed a strong
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? Think of Mr. Potato Head for the iPhone. Well that's what Captain Moustache, a start up developing mobile applications for Apple products, wants you to do with its latest product, Simple Pumpkin Face, out just in time for Halloween. Simple Pumpkin Face offers a myriad of exciting face options, backgrounds and words
ANN ARBOR - ForeSee Results has resigned New York & Company to measure online satisfaction using its American Customer Satisfaction Index. "We are very serious about turning online browsers into online and offline buyers. ForeSee Results has helped us improve our online conversion rates by accessing attitudinal data to understand who is coming to our