ANN ARBOR - John Stack, President of the Optical Systems Division for Zygo Corporation, was presented with the 2012 AIA Achievement Award during a ceremony held today at AIA's 20th Annual Business Conference in Orlando, Florida. This prestigious award is the vision and imaging industry's top leadership award. Stack was nominated by AIA members and
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, announced the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan as its charity partner for 2012. The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Every year, Plex Systems? employees select one or two nonprofits to support and contribute funds to.
LAS VEGAS ? When state after state seeks to ban cell phone and texting in cars, several automakers at the Consumer Electronic Show demonstrated augmented reality windshields and other in-car technologies that undoubtedly will distract drivers. Take Mercedes-Benz? DICE, which Laptop magazine describes as ?essentially an augmented reality-based interface that allows users to control various
STERLING HEIGHTS - UHY LLP announced the promotion of Krystina Borrocci to Director of Marketing. As department head, Borrocci will be responsible for overseeing marketing initiatives in the Midwest and Southeastern regions including Farmington Hills, Sterling Heights, and Atlanta, GA offices. Borrocci is based in the Sterling Heights office in Michigan and brings several years
SALINE - Pearl Crescent has built an app that challenges people to build winter-themed models using actual LEGO-compatible bricks. The app, called Brick Build Winter Edition, uses a digital device's camera to check that it was built correctly. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPad 2, and iPod touch devices equipped with a camera. It
BIRMINGHAM ? Henry Business Solutions has created a new division, Business Visibility Builder, aimed at helping companies increase sales through generating new leads and traffic across the Internet. The new service is designed to help businesses create an integrated presence across the web, social media, and mobile device platforms through a custom-tailored process of research
ANN ARBOR - The umbrella trade association for the Robotic Industries Association, AIA, and the Motion Control Association has changed its name from the Automation Technologies Council to the Association for Advancing Automation. ?The new name more accurately reflects our mission, which is to be the global advocate for the benefits of automation,? said Jeff
LANSING ? The state of Michigan's official travel and tourism web site attracted more visits than any state tourism web site in the country for the fifth consecutive year, according to the independent online measurement company Experian Hitwise. Michigan.Org received 7.69 percent of the overall market share of visits to state tourism sites, and had
DEARBORN - Ford Sync, the voice-activated in-car connectivity system, now is installed in more than 4 million Ford Motor Co. vehicles since its introduction in 2007. With plans to begin offering Sync in Europe and Asia this year, Ford projects 9 million additional vehicles will be equipped with SYNC by 2015. Powered by the Microsoft
ANN ARBOR - Online Tech announced that it has completed a new fiber optic build-out between their Ann Arbor and Mid-Michigan data centers. The new fiber build also provides a higher speed connection between data centers and additional connectivity to four carriers including Savvis, Level 3, Global Crossing and Cogent. All of Online Tech?s data