TRAVERSE CITY - Appia Communications announced it has won a patent for the underlying technology of AppiaSecure, which combines routing, firewall and security management functions in a single appliance. The fine print is the a U.S. patent (8132245) was issued for "Local area network certification system and method." "We are very pleased that the Patent
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems announced an independent auditing firm has confirmed its compliance with SSAE 16, an auditing standard that replaces SAS 70. Plex Systems has received a SOC 1 report and the SOC 2 report is in progress. Presented by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
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