NEW YORK - Best Buy is warning customers who purchased its Insignia 10.4-inch Digital Picture Frames that their device may be harboring a virus, according an advisory posted on its Web site. Insignia digital frames, with model number NS-DPF10A, may be infected with the virus, Best Buy states in its posting, CNET News.Com reported. The
TROY - If you're not sure whether worms are used for phishing. If cookies and smurfs sound like harmless Saturday morning fun. If you're pretty sure that attacks by zombies and bots only happen in science fiction movies. If you've ever wondered what exactly it means to be phished, pharmed, spammed, spimmed, or spoofed, this
GRAND RAPIDS ? A forum Feb. 5 co hosted by E-Discovery Update for attorneys, compliance professionals, paralegals, and other legal staff to learn how e-discovery has permanently changed the litigation landscape. One year after the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended, e-discovery is as costly and complex as ever before. In this engaging seminar,
LANSING - Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison together would invest $6 billion in new generation, but only if the Legislature passes the mandatory 10 percent renewable standard Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed in her State of the State Address on Tuesday. But it is still not clear that mandate will reach her desk. Granholm had asserted
LANSING - Ensuring security of Michigan's computer systems is the top priority, Department of Information Technology Director Kenneth Theis said Tuesday, and that will mean assuring both internal and external security. He spoke at a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Emerging Technologies Committee that unanimously recommended confirmation of his appointment as the permanent
LANSING - Rebounding from a trough reached a year ago, increasing numbers of small business owners expect sales, profitability and investments to increase over the next 12 months, the latest business barometer from the Small Business Association of Michigan reports, while a larger number of employers expect to increase workforces and wages than in the
SAN CARLOS, Ca. - The cold rain that had been falling on Northern California in mid-January paused before we silently rolled the roadster out the development garage in San Carlos. With the sun shining for a least a short time, the top was easily removed by releasing a pair of latches on each side and
WASHINGTON - Global growth has slowed "markedly" amid the turmoil in financial markets, and risks remain to the downside, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. In updating its World Economic Outlook, the fund said the world economy should slow to a 4.1 percent growth rate in 2008 from an estimated 4.9 percent in 2007, The
LANSING - Prima Civitas Foundation on Tuesday awarded ten mini-grants worth $45,000 to Mid-Michigan organizations that will host a variety of Entrepreneur and Inventor Days to showcase new businesses or hot new technologies. The awards are funded by a grant received from the C.S. Mott Foundation in October 2007. A competitive bid process was announced
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - The Deal Gateway will host its monthly Deal Incubator event Feb. 5 to connect business owners and entrepreneurs with potential business partners and investors. The February meeting runs from 4 -6 p.m. at 1760 S. Telegraph Rd. in Bloomfield Hills at the offices of Hertz Schram PC. The Deal Incubator is geared