AUBURN HILLS - Chrysler Group Thursday reported its best December sales since 2007 with 152,367 units, up 10 percent from the same month a year ago. The Chrysler, Dodge, Ram Truck and FIAT brands each posted year-over-year sales gains in December compared with the same month last year. The FIAT brand?s 59 percent increase was
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget is currently working to resolve an error that is impacting 85,000 food assistance recipients and their families. As a result of human error, benefits to the Bridge Cards providing food assistance for clients with account numbers ending in 0 were not loaded to the cards
RESTON, Va. - Samsung is the top handset manufacturer overall with 26.9 percent of the U.S. mobile market share, while Google Android continued to lead among smartphone platforms, accounting for 53.7 percent of smartphone subscribers. Apple was second with 35 percent. The survey was done by comScore during the three-month period ending November 2012. Samsung
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced Thursday that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has issued the REACH-3MC Round I project a no cost-extension. The announcement comes following Merit's December 31, 2012, completed milestones report, which stated that 98 percent of all strand, conduit and cable had been deployed on the 1,017-mile fiber-optic construction project.
WASHINGTON D.C. - Google competitors unhappy with the way their search results are displayed on Google search pages will be able to opt out under an agreement announced today by the Federal Trade Commission. That was perhaps the most significant plank of a multipart agreement announced by the FTC after a lengthy investigation into Google's
SAN FRANCISCO - The hacking group issues a statement boasting of its cyberattacks against the U.S., Syrian, and Israeli governments in 2012, while warning people to continue to expect this type of activity. The hacking collective Anonymous has clarified that it has no plans to fade away in the New Year. It issued a statement
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network announced the completion of approximately 292 additional miles of their REACH-3MC fiber-optic network build-out. Merit completed and activated the optical network equipment used to "light" the newly installed fiber to provide network services, on the following segments; Centreville to Berrien Springs (66 miles), Mount Pleasant to Prudenville (87 miles), Gaylord
CHICAGO - What will 2013 bring for small business? Barry Moltz, a noted small business expert, said his 2012 predictions proved to be 80 percent correct, but 2013 is a tougher year to predict than last. 1. The economy will grow ? slowly. Quarterly GDP growth of about 2.5 percent becomes the new normal. What
SAN FRANCISCO - Mobile and Mac malware burbles noxiously, data breaches and data mining will cause more havoc with your privacy, and the Web will continue to suffer the ignominy of poorly-written, Swiss-cheesed code as security experts predict lessons from 2012 go unlearned in 2013. The Internet is slowly changing, and security experts say that
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network, announced it has completed milestones on its REACH-3MC Round I fiber-optic project. Ninety-eight percent of all strand, conduit and fiber have been installed of the 1,017 miles of the Round I middle-mile project. In January, 2010 Merit received an ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) award as part