MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - In much the same way it changed the wired Internet, Google plans to revolutionize the mobile Web through its new open software platform. Google's cell phone strategy took shape Monday with the announcement of a new open software platform and an alliance of wireless heavyweights that will help form the development
TROY ? PMV Technologies has been awarded two MarCom Awards, including one Gold Award, for their marketing and promotional campaigns. PMV is a member of Automation Alley. The MarCom Awards is an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communication professionals. PMV Technologies competed against a broad field that included corporate marketing
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft thinks it has found the right price for its enterprise search tool: free. Starting next year, the company plans to give away a new product, dubbed Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, which enables workers to see a collection of search results spanning databases, internal computer systems, and the Internet. In addition
LANSING - While lawmakers and outside influences have put on a major push to repeal or at least delay the new sales tax on services before its scheduled December 1 launch, officials with the Department of Treasury are telling businesses to be ready for the tax to take effect on December 1. So much opposition
DETROIT -- United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger and his lieutenants will meet Monday afternoon with local union leaders trying to build support for a tentative contract reached with Ford Motor Co. over the weekend. The agreement, which is regarded as a landmark concessionary deal that will help the company better compete against Asia-based rivals,
BEIJING, China - Suntech Power Holdings, an aggressive, rising star in the solar world, said in a conference call yesterday that it hopes to build plants in the U.S. to help it break into the market here. "We are currently in discussion with the governors of three different states who have been recruiting us to
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. government's controversial plan to outfit all Americans with uniform electronic identification cards--officially known as Real ID--may be on its deathbed, opponents of the program charged last week. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has long said that starting as soon as May 2008, and definitely after May 2013, it will
LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm and her economic team will tour the state this week to talk to alternative energy companies about their expansion plans and needs. But she also pushed the Legislature to adopt a renewable energy portfolio to give those alternative energy companies a big boost. Michigan hopes to put alternative energy manufacturing
CUPERTINO, Ca. - What a McAfee security expert calls a "nasty" piece of malware, Puper, has hit Apple Macintosh computers with a thud. "This is the first real malware that we have seen in the Mac," said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager, McAfee Avert Labs. "It is written by the same group that
LANSING - By the end of this week, it is possible that a bill repealing Michigan's new sales tax on services will have passed one house, but how much progress will be made to replacing the tax is less certain. Some sources said more interest is coalescing around the proposal to create a surcharge for