DEARBORN ? With Sync 3, Ford is raising its game to support Android Auto and CarPlay eventually, but for now it's introducing a completely new version of its venerable Sync system. Introduced way back in 2007 in partnership with Microsoft, Sync was intended to make cars smarter. And not just the expensive ones, CNET reported.
WASHINGTON DC - Few companies could have prevented the cyberattack that devastated Sony Pictures, the FBI said during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on cybersecurity and the finance industry. "[T]he malware that was used would have gotten past 90 percent of the Net defenses that are out there today in private industry and [would have
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio, the state?s Life Sciences trade group, is hosting a webinar Dec. 16 to define how to do electronic submissions to the FDA for Small Biopharma ? What, How, and Who? With pending FDA mandates for submissions in electronic common technical document (eCTD) form, small biopharma companies have been among the last
DETROIT - ardentCause L3C, a Southeast Michigan woman-founded and woman-led technology company, was recently selected to provide data and analysis in support of ongoing, crucial evaluation services for the new Detroit Head Start Early Childhood Innovation Fund. Programs are ramping up to provide more extensive services to young children and their families from birth until
LANSING - The Senate on Tuesday voted to send to Governor Rick Snyder a revised version of a bill aimed at increasing work in Michigan for those in the film industry and receiving some income tax from higher-paid producers or actors from certain successful projects. SB 1103 had recently been changed by the House to
LANSING - Schools would have to modify their policy prohibiting bullying to include cyberbullying and include assurance of confidentiality for an individual who reported an act of bullying, as well as procedures to safeguard that confidentiality, under a bill passed by the Senate on Thursday. SB 74 saw some perhaps unexpected debate on the Senate
LANSING - Consumers Energy has asked the Public Service Commission for an addition $160 million a year in part to cover the costs of shuttering coal plants and purchasing natural gas plants, the utility said in a filing on the rate case. The utility said the rate increase is needed to comply both with federal
LANSING - The more conservative of the two chambers of Congress has approved legislation authorizing the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which provides funds for various conservation and cleanup projects around the Great Lakes. The program has already seen some $1.6 billion in federal funds since 2010, but U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-Royal Oak), a co-sponsor
DETROIT - Tel Ganesan, CEO and Founder of Kyyba and President of TiE Detroit has become the chairperson for Connect India Now, an initiative to provide Indian cities, NGO's, villages and small businesses with cutting edge technology that will not only connect them to each other, but to their counterparts in the United States. The
DETROIT ? If you want to submit a crime tip anonymously to the Detroit Police Department, there?s now an app for that. Detroit Labs has churned out yet another smart phone application, this one for the DPD that provides information about the city and departments, allows tips to be submitted anonymously through the app and