LINCOLN, Neb. - The Internet2 IPv6 Working Group today announced it will begin a broad outreach program to help promote the adoption of the IPv6 protocol among the research and education community and beyond. As a first step, the working group has created an IPv6 accessibility challenge for attendees of the ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs meeting
DETROIT - Wayne State University has been selected by the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education to receive its Award for Institutional Excellence in Communications Technology for the university's Broadcast Messaging Service. This service was developed at the direction of WSU President Irvin Reid, who called for the creation of an emergency
ANN ARBOR - Borders Audiobook Downloads, a new audiobook download service, debuted Monday on Borders.com, offering an initial 15,000 titles, including fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, classics, self-help and children's books, among other categories. Each week, hundreds of new titles will be added to the online catalog of audiobook titles, augmenting the vast selection of audiobooks
ANN ARBOR - The software development community came together last weekend to help 15 metro Detroit non-profits at the first annual Ann Arbor Give Camp. At Give Camp, nearly 100 developers from around the region created custom software to help non-profits solve IT challenges ranging from Web site creation to data management. Ann Arbor Give
ANN ARBOR - Intellectual property attorney Chris Mitchell has joined Butzel Long as a senior attorney based in the firm?s Ann Arbor office. He focuses his practice in the areas of consumer products, life sciences and medical devices. Mitchell has represented biochemical producers, manufacturers of food products, sporting goods and building products, food service franchisors,
ANN ARBOR - Data center operator Online Technologies Corporation, has released a new product called MyOTC Customer Portal, which lets customers manage their colocated and dedicated servers by providing remote monitoring and management of their servers. The MyOTC Customer Portal provides a dashboard, making it easy to: manage support incidents and user accounts; monitor data
AUBURN HILLS - Plexus Systems announced Thursday it has signed a contract with Inteva Products, LLC, a global Tier 1 supplier of automotive interior and closure systems. Under the agreements, Plexus Systems will provide a global implementation of Plexus Online, the on-demand software for the manufacturing enterprise. Inteva designs, engineers, manufactures, and assembles Instrument Panels,
ROCHESTER HILLS - Business process software developer Trubiquity, formerly Autoweb, last week acquired the assets and business operations of German-based Mosaic Software AG, a provider of commercial electronic data interchange (EDI) software products for customers in the retail, manufacturing and finance markets. Terms were not disclosed. Offering an EDI-trade portal (web and classic EDI) for
ANN ARBOR - ProQuest has closed on its agreement to acquire the Dialog business from ThomsonReuters and named industry veteran Suzanne BeDell as Dialog General Manager. BeDell will report to ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn. Financial terms were not disclosed. "I am thrilled about what this means both to ProQuest and Dialog and to the customers
YPSILANTI - Ensure Technologies has been selected for the 2008 Best of Ypsilanti Award in the Computer Equipment category by the U.S. Local Business Association. The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their