VANCOUVER, CANADA ? Daimler AG will be the majority shareholder in a new partnership with Ford Motor Company and Ballard Power Systems to develop fuel cell technology for cars and buses. Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation will be managed by Daimler and Ford with their collective 80.1 percent stake in the new company, while Ballard will
DETROIT ? Toyota has donated $2 million to the Detroit Science Center for the construction of the Toyota Engineering Theater. The theater is scheduled to open in December 2008. The contribution also will help support the Engineering the Future campaign, an initiative to transform the Detroit Science Center into America?s premier engineering-focused museum. Steve St.
ANN ARBOR ? Here's something ever entrepreneur needs to know ? how to increase your start up's sales, profits as well as build a championship executive team. The Dec. 3 event is sponsored by Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest and NextEnergy. Denise Roberts, a nationally recognized public speaker with expertise in prospecting, networking and teaching how
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - It wasn't long after Google announced its long-anticipated mobile plans this week that a debate emerged about the prospective security of the project's Linux-based platform. Can the open-source model for the platform, now known as Android, produce secure code? CNET News.Com asked. Will phones based on Android, dubbed "Gphones" by many,
TROY - JobApp Network, a subscription-based, automated phone and web-based hourly recruiting solution, has landed $4 million in equity funding from Vineyard Capital Group and its affiliated investors, the largest single investment made in a Michigan-based company this year. Richard Helppie, Managing Director of Vineyard Capital Group, will serve as Chairman of the board of
SOUTHFIELD ? Security engineer Tim Heagarty of SecureWorks will discuss successful security monitoring in large environments at the Nov. 15 Motor City ISSA meeting at the Southfield Town Center. Deploying the right security technology in the right places is tricky enough - building the infrastructure to support that technology and get the most out of
BATTLE CREEK - The Michigan Homeland Security Consortium and Battle Creek Unlimited will announce Nov. 13 a key partnership to make investments and support the homeland security industry. This partnership has support from statewide leaders who will participate in a news conference next Tuesday at 11:45 am at the Battle Creek Unlimited Office. Those leaders
WASHINGTON DC ? Thousands of people attended Computer Security Institute 2007 this week in the nation?s capital where more than 100 educational sessions and seminars on such topics as Risks & Metrics, Rising Threats on the Web, and Incident Response were explored. Walsh College IAC Director Nan Poulios, who attended the event, said she presented
GRAND RAPIDS - James Placer CCSE, CCSP, will examine the true cost of a data breach Nov. 16 at the next meeting of The Right Place Program's Fourth Friday networking event. The recent changes in state and federal legislation have pushed the data retention and notification requirements to all companies and individuals with significant punitive
TROY - Under the new leadership of Jennifer Bowden, the Southeast Michigan Information Security Regional Skills Alliance is gearing up with several new initiatives to ensure that Southeast Michigan has a trained workforce in information security. A major component of the MiRSA will now be to examine information security and how it affects the everyday