ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Wednesday the selection of Juniper Networks as Ethernet routing and switching hardware vendor for Merit's REACH-3MC broadband stimulus project. Juniper will supply routing and switching equipment for both funding rounds. Terms were not announced. "Merit Network is pleased to announce the selection of Juniper Networks as Ethernet routing and
LANSING - Storm On Demand, the cloud hosting arm of managed hosting provider Liquid Web, has announced its latest High Performance hosting product - Storm SSD. In Storm SSD, Storm On Demand has tweaked its Cloud Servers to include Solid State Drives and full redundancy. This innovation sees Storm On Demand increasing the power and
ANN ARBOR - Daily deal sites attract new customers and inspire loyalty with Groupon leading the way with the largest share of the market, a new study shows. While there has been some argument about the impact of daily deal offers on new business, according to the ForeSee report, daily deal offers do increase business
GRAND RAPIDS - CQL announced today the addition of a new Software Developer, Matt McCarrick, who comes to CQL with experience working with multiple e-commerce sites and implementations. While his expertise has focused on C# and VB.NET, his passion for software has moved him into different technologies like ASP.NET MVC. His most recent project is
SOUTHFIELD - Secure-24 Inc. is heading to Michigan college campuses to recruit more than 50 IT professionals to fill high-tech jobs and internships at the managed IT hosting company. Secure-24 has already created more than 250 IT jobs in Michigan and plans to create another 250 jobs by 2015. The company?s current college recruitment tour
SAN FRANCISCO - Even as the company redirects efforts to HTML5 and narrows Flash's scope, Adobe is also promising investments in Flash for 5 to 10 years. Last year, Adobe Systems narrowed Flash Player's scope. It canceled the browser plug-in for mobile devices. It shifted development resources toward competing Web standards, CNET News.Com reported. But
ANN ARBOR - Netflix suffered one of the largest drops in ACSI history as e-commerce inched up and competition stiffened, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index?s annual E-Commerce Report. The report, produced in partnership with the Ann Arbor customer satisfaction measurement consultant ForeSee, showed customer satisfaction with e-commerce Web sites overall was up 1
ANN ARBOR - Internet2 announced that Ohio and Indiana are the first states to launch a 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) research and education network by connecting to Internet2's Advanced Layer 2 network--the first transcontinental 100 Gbps network in the world. The network serves as an innovation platform that connects higher education institutions throughout the
DETROIT - Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Claudia Rast will be a featured speaker during the Institute of Continuing Legal Education's 24th Annual Business Law Institute May 4-5, 2012 in Grand Rapids where she will discuss Social Media and Technology: Protecting Your Business Clients and Yourself. Rast will dig into the implications of sharing information
GRAND RAPIDS - Mindscape at Hanon McKendry has recently promoted three employees to meet project and service demands created by continued growth in 2011. Jeff Bell, who has served as project manager since mid‐2010, has been promoted to director of digital marketing services. Bell, who is Google Analytics Certified, has been tapped to lead the