SOUTHFIELD - The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit teamed up Nov. 1 with Southeast Michigan colleges and universities for its inaugural Online Red Kettle College Competition. Student-run organizations from each school have created their own Online Red Kettle and are encouraging students, staff, alumni and supporters to donate. Donors can view their school's fundraising goals
DETROIT - The Grand Valley State University board, meeting Friday at its new Detroit Center near Comerica Park, approved the purchase of 11 acres of land near downtown Grand Rapids to expand the university's health campus at the east end of Grand Rapids' multi-billion-dollar Medical Mile. The university already owns four acres of property adjacent
ARO ? Consumers Energy on Friday held the groundbreaking for its 105 megawatt Cross Winds Energy Park that will include 62 wind turbines when fully operational. Also participating in the ceremony was its contractors, Tuscola County-area landowners and local government officials. ?Renewable energy will continue to be a vital part of our Balanced Energy Initiative,
TROY - The planning committee for the second annual Great Lakes BI and Big Data Summit has issued a call for speakers to address the day-long conference March 13, 2014, at the Detroit Marriott Troy. In its inaugural year, the Summit was attended by nearly 200 of the area's top business and technology leaders from
EDISON, N.J. - Emil Carafa, the principal of Washington Elementary School in Northern New Jersey started a pilot program with the Michigan-developed WriteSteps elementary school writing curriculum three years ago. He couldn?t be happier with the results today. Begun in 2007, the latest iteration of WriteSteps complies with the new national Common Core State Standards
TENAFLY, N.J. - No business can avoid ?the cloud.? Some embrace cloud based services with enthusiasm as a formal way of delivering all or part of a given organization?s IT requirements, whilst others grudgingly accept them because it is near impossible to stop individual users or lines of business from building them in to business
TENAFLY, N.J. - One of the security-related topics that has the least actual impact on enterprise security has been getting the most attention from the security press and the security Twitterverse: the Edward Snowden NSA surveillance disclosures. If you made a list of the top 100 risks to any company (or any individual) NSA intercepting
TENAFLY, N.J. - As we approach the Internet of things, more and more things are keeping tabs on me. My toaster is watching me, and the blender is looking at me funny. Increasingly companies that collect data will have to have robust privacy policies about what they collect and store, who they share it with,
TENAFLY, N.J. - A European judge recently blocked a security researcher's paper describing how to bypass a car's immobilizer theft-protection system. The Next Generation of airline control systems is designed to efficiently improve air travel, but the new system reportedly uses no encryption on its communications links, and is also missing authentication mechanisms meaning false
TENAFLY, N.J. - How do you defend against something that's never been seen before? That's the key question organizations struggle with. A decade ago, the first victims of any worm or virus outbreak had difficulty defending against a brand-new threat, leaving resources vulnerable until the attack could be detected and signatures created. Today the ultimate