ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Tuesday it has cut a deal with Bloomingdale Communications to deploy fiber-optic network infrastructure that will be jointly owned by each organization to build-out their respective network projects. Both projects are in part federally-funded. In working together, Merit and Bloomingdale maximize federal investment in Michigan to save tax-payers? dollars.
WARREN - The U.S. Army will hold its third Robotics Rodeo in May 2012 to give scientists and engineers from government and industry to demonstrate unmanned ground systems. Robotics Rodeo III is co-hosted by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center in Warren and Fort Benning?s Maneuver Battle Lab near Columbus, Georgia.
LANSING - Center for Business Innovation has partnered with Aerohive Networks to provide their partners with cloud-based managed wireless solutions. Cloud-based managed wireless solutions eliminate the chances for single-points of failure. It also eliminates the need for physical wireless controllers, making this a cost effective wireless solution for any size organization. ?Offering a cloud-based managed
LANSING - Managed hosting company Liquid Web has made a $10,000 donation to the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund to support further development of the Perl programming language. Liquid Web has developed much of its software using perl and continues to do so. The programming language serves as an integral tool for the continued development
BIRMINGHAM - Gas Station TV Wednesday announced a business deal with Austin, Texas-based Wayne to triple the audience for its TV programming broadcast atop gas pumps. This investment will nearly triple GSTV's viewership from 27 million people monthly to more than 70 million people monthly, significantly surpassing cinema advertising viewership. Wayne is making an investment
LANSING - The State of Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget has awarded a $47 million contract to Unisys to build and maintain a new child welfare services system to serve the needs of thousands of children and social workers in Michigan. Designed to meet new state and federal data quality and information-sharing requirements,
ANN ARBOR - Customer satisfaction across three durable goods industries stalled in 2011, with the majority of companies staying almost exactly where they were in 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Customer Satisfaction Index. The report covers customer satisfaction with personal computers, major appliances, and electronics (televisions and BD-DVD players). One
FERNDALE - Livio Radio, a manufacturer and developer of car Internet radio products and services, Tuesday announced the roll out of its Bluetooth Internet Radio Car Kit. ?The Kit,? previewed at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is a plug-and-play gadget that brings Internet radio and music from your iPod or iPhone
ALPENA - Verizon Wireless has completed its $850,000 upgrade of 450 antennas on all of its cell sites between the Saginaw Bay north to the Mackinaw Bridge and east of Interstate 75 to Lake Huron, producing gains of up to one mile. The last tower to receive new equipment is in Roscommon, where a nest
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems announced it raised enough money to provide 11,282 days of food for the Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan's 2011 Food Fight to Tackle Childhood Hunger. The amount was the highest among participating companies with 100-250 employees, as well as the largest amount of all 30 participating companies. These