TROY - Creative Breakthroughs will host an ongoing series of authorized Cisco training courses in May at its Training Facility in Troy. As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner and a Cisco Learning Partner, CBI will offer a variety of courses led by CBI Practice Manager and Senior Cisco Instructor, Matt Just. The training is geared
LANSING ? Data center Liquid Web is giving its followers access to its most recently constructed Data Center with a Google Street View tour of the web host posted Tuesday. The company has also hidden clues around the Data Center that will allow users to interact in a weeklong scavenger hunt - featuring monetary prizes
GRAND RAPIDS ? Forbes Magazine has ranked Grand Rapids as a top 10 city for find employment, citing the metropolitan area's 6.6 percent unemployment rate in February. Forbes cited the top industries hiring as Healthcare, Financial Services, Skilled Labor, Education, IT, and Engineering. The job skills most in demand are Information Specialists, Manufacturing, Administrative, and
LANSING - The two most talked about potential Democratic challengers to Governor Rick Snyder in 2014, former U.S. Reps. Mark Schauer and Bart Stupak, both manage statistical ties when matched against Snyder in a new poll released Monday. Schauer took 39 percent to 38 percent for Snyder in the survey from Lansing-based EPIC/MRA while Snyder
SOUTHFIELD - Sixty-eight teams from 28 communities in Michigan will compete in the state regional championship round of Robofest on April 27 at Lawrence Technological University. Admission and parking are free. Robofest is a competition of autonomous robots - computer-programmed to act independently and not remote-controlled - that encourages students to have fun while learning
MT. CLEMENS - Macomb County's courts and other departments are back to pen-and-paper operations after a fire at the old county building Wednesday wiped out the county's servers and phone system. The county did not have a its data backed up off site. ?This is what we warned them about,? County Executive Mark Hackel told
GRAND RAPIDS - Rick DeVos said Thursday that his Start Garden fund has invested more than $2.3 million in more than 100 projects during its first year. Start Garden began last spring, investing $5,000 in two potential ideas, projects and startup businesses each week. The fund is backed by $15 million from DeVos? family, and
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder put a major emphasis Thursday on how much hospitals, physicians and other health care providers charge for care in unveiling his plan to overhaul how the state regulates medical coverage for those catastrophically injured in automobile accidents. One of the key components of the legislation, expected to be introduced next
WASHINGTON DC - The US House of Representatives Thursday passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act, which President Barack Obama has threatened to veto should it be paased by the Senate. But should CISPA earn the president?s autograph, private businesses will be encouraged to voluntarily share cyberthreat information with the US government. The
WASHINGTON DC - Security firm McAfee is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to try to shore up America's defenses against cyberthreats. McAfee announced that the company is now part of the National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership and will join cybersecurity professionals from both the private and public sector to tackle the escalating