ANN ARBOR ? Supply chain design software solutions provider, LLamasoft, has released Data Services, a new product that provides reference and benchmark data to LLamasoft customers and others in the supply chain design community. By providing easy access to this data, LLamasoft Data Services provides significant reduction in model building time and validates model outputs
SAN FRANCISCO - Forget the National Security Agency and other government intelligence bureaus. One doesn't need a taxpayer-funded agency to maintain a nearly comprehensive and constant library of your visage as you travel near and far. There are, in fact, a number of products and services from both startups and tech giants aimed at capturing
DEARBORN - The SME Education Foundation has awarded $120,000 in Family and Director Scholarships to eight students pursuing engineering careers. In addition, the 2013 SME-EF scholarship winner?s circle includes 224 students who were awarded $521,500 in scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $7,000, with some receiving multiple awards. Family Scholarships were presented to the following students:
SAN FRANCISCO - Signed with a valid Apple ID, Backdoor:Python/Janicab.A uses a Unicode trick to pass as a standard document instead of an application. F-Secure is reporting that some new malware attempts in OS X are using a spoofing technique to disguise malicious installations as standard files. The technique involves using a special Unicode character
GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan Health Connect is the first health information exchange in the state to effectively transfer infectious disease lab reports from hospitals to the state health department, saving valuable response time during disease outbreaks. Seven McLaren Heath Care hospitals in Michigan ? McLaren Bay Region, McLaren Central Michigan, McLaren Flint, McLaren Greater Lansing,
ANN ARBOR ? The New Enterprise Forum is celebrating its tenth anniversary in July during its unusual entrepreneurs month, featuring business success stories hinging on a wacky product or service idea, lucky timing in a market segment, or a chance encounter that become the big break. To celebrate the decade mark, this year NEF will
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? The labor market for engineering talent has fundamentally changed in Michigan becoming a sellers' market, so says The Hunter Group, an executive search agency. ?If you have a strong technical background and you?re not working, it?s by choice,? said Sherry Muir Irwin, a partner in The Hunter Group, founded in 1995 to
WEST BLOOMFIELD ? Gibbs Sports Amphibians, maker of the world's first personal sports amphibian, plans to add a hundred new dealers nationwide, hire more employees to assemble the land-water vehicles in Auburn Hills, and introduce a new two-passenger model later this year. The company has orders to build 1000 Quadskis in 2013, said Gibbs Communications
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday proposed a funding factor of 91 cents per meter per month as its first annual income energy assistance funding factor for the Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund created by law earlier this month. The factor was based on the assumption that all utilities that have filed nothing yet
LANSING ? Michigan House Democrats announced legislation on Thursday that would add regulations to horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to require more transparency from companies do fracking for natural gas. The legislation would require the disclosure of chemicals used in the fracking process and report the water used when it exceeds 100,000 gallons; allow communities