WASHINGTON, D.C.- Internet2 announced Monday that it is actively seeking a Chief Innovation Officer to join the Internet2 executive leadership team. A distinguished panel of higher education and corporate leaders has been assembled from the Internet2 community to spearhead the search. The primary intention of the CINO role is to stimulate and lead new collaborative
ANN ARBOR - Steven Levitt, the best-selling author of Freakonomics, Superfreakonomics and the recently published Think Like a Freak will speak at the University of Michigan on Halloween during the University of Michigan?s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Centennial Reunion Weekend. Levitt is co-founder of Spin for Good and an economics professor at
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Google said on Tuesday that it supports USB drives built on an increasingly popular software standard that makes two-factor authentication a lot less cumbersome. With two- factor authentication, users combine something they know - such as a password or personal identification number -- with something they have - such as a
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple said Wednesday it will stop supporting the encryption standard Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 for its push notifications service in response to a vulnerability identified earlier this month in the aging protocol. Apple announced on its developer site that it will switch on October 29 from SSL 3.0 to Transport Layer Security
LANSING - Quantum Medical Concepts, a new partnership between the Michigan State Medical Society and Common Wealth Enterprises to provide early-stage funding for developing medical advances in Michigan, announced Monday that it will make a $100,000 investment in Advanced Amputee Solutions. Based in Metro Detroit, Advanced Amputee Solutions uses the Cushioning Implantable End Pad (CIEP)
ANN ARBOR - How secure are your most confidential documents? Find out during a webcast Oct. 30 to find out how bioscience organizations are using secure document sharing solutions to work with outside parties, such as partners and potential acquirers. Explore the risks and benefits of various solutions, and evaluate the reasons why many bioscience
GRAND RAPIDS - Information Security and cyber hacking were the focus of this year?s GRRCon, an annual hacking conference held October 16-17 at DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids. The attendees were a mix of IT professionals interested in improving cyber defense and those who make a living beating it. Throughout the conference, speakers offered
NOVI - This is a critical time for Michigan?s economic recovery, a time when we all need to work together to keep the state?s growth momentum going. Since the end of the recession, unemployment has dropped in Michigan. Our state is one of the leading states in the Great Lakes region where housing prices are
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Susan Pollack has been named a senior account manager at AutoCom Associates, a public relations agency providing communications support for automotive and high-technology businesses. Pollack also is the president of SJP Media Communications, an agency servicing various sports car and off-road racing clients. Pollack has more than 15 years of marketing communications
DETROIT - Graduating college seniors with degrees in computer science and related majors from an accredited four-year college or university need to look no further than Hacker Fellows, a cutting-edge program that allows them to work as a developer at a Michigan start-up. This program, administered by Grand Circus in partnership with Invest Detroit, gives