SAN FRANCISCO - Retailer Brookstone this year will start selling a portable fuel cell able to charge smartphones a dozen times before running out. Fuel cell maker Lilliputian Systems today announced that Brookstone will be the first retailer to carry its portable USB power source, which will be sold under Brookstone's brand, CNET News.Com reported.
COOPERSVILLE - IT Resource will be the keynote speakers at the Coopersville Area Chamber of Commerce May 17 where they will offer a program to focus on maximizing IT investment. The breakfast meeting - from 7:30-9:00 a.m. at 327 Main, Coopersville ? will also help attendees understand what questions need to be asked to evaluate
WASHINGTON D.C. - Lockheed Martin will assist the Defense Department's Cyber Crime Center thwart cyber criminals under a task order that has a ceiling value of $454 million if all options are exercised. The General Services Administration?s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center task order, under GSA?s Alliant contract, calls for Lockheed Martin to deliver
LONDON - Analyst firm Ovum said Android will be the dominant operating system in the smartphone market over the next five years as handset vendors rush to make it their primary smartphone platform. Smartphones will outperform the overall market for mobile phones, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.9 percent for the
BOSTON - A steep drop in shipments of Android-based tablets offset a strong quarter from Apple and caused the media tablet market to miss projections for the first quarter of 2012 according to preliminary data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker. Total worldwide media tablet shipments for the quarter reached 17.4
DETROIT ? The FBI's top cyber cop in Detroit is the keynote speaker May 21 at the 2012 Spring HTCIA Conference where the focus is on exploring cyber espionage and law enforcement. The event is closed to the general public and press because of the sensitive nature of the information disclosed. But security professionals are
ANN ARBOR - A record 36 of the top 100 online retailers, lead by Amazon.Com, achieved the "threshold for excellence" on the annual Top 100 E-Retail Satisfaction Index from customer experience analytics company ForeSee. Scores of 80 or higher on ForeSee's 100-point scale are considered superior customer satisfaction performances. In 2010 and 2011, 28 websites
LONDON - A campaign of "ransomware" is locking people out of their computers in Europe unless they pony up the right amount of money. Spotted by security blog abuse.ch, the malware taps into an exploit kit known as "Blackhole." Sold underground, Blackhole is used by criminals to infect computers through security holes in the browser
LANSING - A new Michigan House bill would take federal grants given to businesses to help them retool or expand so they can create green energy products and change the system into a revolving loan fund for businesses looking to do many of the same things, but with strings attached and penalties for not creating
ANN ARBOR - North America's largest display of vision and imaging components and systems will be on display May 8-10 during The Vision Show at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston sponsored by AIA, the world's largest machine vision trade association. Show hours run 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on May 8 and May 9