LANSING - Those released on bail for certain crimes could be required to wear a tracking device and the state's drunken driving law would remain as it is under legislation reported Wednesday from the House Criminal Justice Committee. Anyone charged with an assaultive crime could be required to wear a geosynchronous positioning system-based tracking device
DETROIT - Hospice of Michigan Wednesday unveiled a mobile app that will allow family and friends of patients to stay better connected to the care teams of their loved one in hospice care ? no matter where they live. Believed to be the first hospice app that connects patients and families, HOM Cares was demonstrated
GRAND RAPIDS ? Keith Brophy, for the 12th straight year, offered up his vision of the tech future with 10 predictions that include a future where robots will play professional sports. Brophy, a long-time West Michigan serial entrepreneur, now CEO of Grand Rapids-based Ideomed, spoke to a packed house at the Eve Restaurant at the
LANSING - Mike Hansen, president of the Michigan Community College Association, on Wednesday applauded Governor Rick Snyder's $1.1 million one-time appropriation to improve the virtual learning collaborative, saying it would help students access the courses they need. "It's really the direction that education is going, so we were very happy the governor chose to support
DETROIT ? TheFreeLunchFriday hosts its second monthly meet-up Feb. 22 at Atomic Object's Harmonie Park office. The featured speaker is Mike McGee, co-founder of The Starter League, a beginner-focused software school in Chicago. Before The Starter League, Mike's greatest claim to fame was that his High School mascot was a pretzel. He went to Northwestern
GRAND RAPIDS - As local medical device companies look for new growth opportunities, they may do well to consider serving the burgeoning market in the Middle East, specifically Dubai. That?s the word from Don Beery, director of the two-dozen-member West Michigan Medical Device Consortium, who attended Arab Health 2013 in Dubai in late January. Beery
GRAND RAPIDS - Sam Hogg got a master's in business administration degree at Michigan State University's Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, where he worked with MSU's Technology and Innovation Center to create a company, GiftZip.com, that he sold in 2011 to gift card industry leader SVM LP. Hogg, 30, a partner at Open Prairie
TROY ? Billhighway has expanded its Product Development team with the hire of Ramesh Kandukuri and promotion of team members Joe Koppin and Scott Walmer. In his role as Senior Solutions Architect, Kandukuri acts as a leader and mentor on the product development team; leveraging his 15 years? experience in IT strategy and operational planning.
SAN FRANCISCO - The New York Times' report Monday of state-sponsored hacking in China drew new attention to the sophisticated techniques that would-be infiltrators use to gain access to victims' accounts. But it's not just China, Google said - the techniques used against U.S. government agencies and corporations are being used increasingly by hackers around
SAN FRANCISCO - A new backdoor Trojan for OS X is making the rounds, attempting to set up a secure connection for a remote hacker to connect through and grab private information. The malware, dubbed Pintsized by Intego, is suspected of using a modified implementation of OpenSSH to set up a reverse shell that creates