ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Tuesday the completion of Round 1 REACH-3MC construction. All infrastructure is installed with fiber-optic cable along the 1,017-mile network extension through rural and underserved areas in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, including all 55 fiber-optic lateral connections to Merit Members from the middle-mile infrastructure. "Merit is proud to announce the completion
GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group announced an expanded partnership with StillSecure, a leading managed security services and certified compliance company. This partnership will significantly expand its cloud and dedicated hosting solutions to include a new suite of managed security services and compliance offerings to customers, including PCI Complete and HIPAA Essential. Trivalent Group?s managed security solutions
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum announce the winners of its 2013 Essay Contest ? A Master of Management & Master Gardener; a Locavore and Foodbeet blogger; and a writer, researcher, builder and remodeler. Michele VanHouten wins highest honors with her essay The Country Cemetery. Honorable Mentions go to Theresa Hogerheide (From
LANSING ? The Port Huron Area School District was awarded a $99,365 grant for installation of energy efficient lighting in seven elementary schools, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Tuesday. ?Replacing obsolete lighting equipment will make the school environment healthier for students and also bring energy and cost saving benefits to the school district,? said
SAN FRANCISCO - Video service Vudu began warning users today that it has instituted a systemwide password reset following an office break-in last month. A burglary March 24 resulted in the loss of hard drives that contained users' sensitive personal information, including names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, account activity, dates of birth, and
REDMOND - Microsoft will toughen up its products' security by adding dual-factor authentication soon, according to a report by Liveside.net. Judging by details in the Microsoft-focused blog, the approach closely mirrors what Google did years ago: authorization requiring both a password (the first factor) and a special six-digit code retrieved from an authenticator app on
TROY ? WIT President Quaid Saifee said he hoped 70 people who show up for his Business Intelligence and Big Data Summit on March 14. Instead 178 people showed up from business and technology leaders, Fortune 500 companies as well as small to mid-sized Michigan and Ohio companies. ?It show there?s a pent up demand
DETROIT - Verizon on April 3 launched its Powerful Answers Award, a $10 million challenge to find innovative ideas in three core focus areas - healthcare, education and sustainability. Entries must use Verizon networks and technology (wireless, cloud, broadband, etc.) to help deliver solutions that address societal challenges, deliver social benefit and grow markets. With
SAGINAW ? Saginaw County has been selected as the seventh in the under 200,000 population category by Site Selection Magazine. The award recognizes states and metropolitan areas for the numbers of new and expanded facilities announced in the past year. Saginaw County was seventh in the United States with nine projects. Projects are qualified based
MIDLAND - The MidMichigan Innovation Center and BlueWater Angels along with the Office for Innovation at Covenant HealthCare will be co-hosting a health technology forum April 10 to showcase five new Michigan companies - each company having potential to dramatically impact the future of medicine. One of the roles of the Covenant HealthCare Office for