WASHINGTON DC - The Obama administration plans to work with Congress to enact legislation to protect peoples' online privacy based on a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. At the same time, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committing to work with Do Not Track technology in most major Web browsers so people can stop companies
LANSING - Michigan would be on the leading edge of states if it includes performance measures for universities to see increased funding as part of the fiscal year 2012-13 budget, but it also would be on the low side of the funds committed to that incentive, the House Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittee was told Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO - Even as the company redirects efforts to HTML5 and narrows Flash's scope, Adobe is also promising investments in Flash for 5 to 10 years. Last year, Adobe Systems narrowed Flash Player's scope. It canceled the browser plug-in for mobile devices. It shifted development resources toward competing Web standards, CNET News.Com reported. But
LANSING - Liquid Web a managed hosting company with locations in Michigan and Arizona has successfully completed a SSAE-16 (formerly SAS70) and SOC 3 examinations, relevant to security, availability, and processing integrity, and has been issued an Independent Service Auditor's Report for both. The report found that Liquid Web had addressed each of the controls
ANN ARBOR - Netflix suffered one of the largest drops in ACSI history as e-commerce inched up and competition stiffened, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index?s annual E-Commerce Report. The report, produced in partnership with the Ann Arbor customer satisfaction measurement consultant ForeSee, showed customer satisfaction with e-commerce Web sites overall was up 1
LANSING - Where students at Highland Park schools will end up for the rest of the academic year is still an open question after the Michigan House and Senate pushed through an emergency bill late Thursday afternoon. Those who show up to their classroom on Monday may not see many teachers, and if there are
LANSING - Michigan's urban areas could lead the state to a new recovery with some readjustment of the state's economic development priorities, a report commissioned by Business Leaders for Michigan said. The report, Michigan's Urban and Metropolitan Strategy, developed by Public Sector Consultants and the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, said Michigan's cities already lead
TROY - Automation Alley was awarded a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor under the H-1B Technical Skills Training Grant Competition to make high-level IT training available to local partner companies, including HP Enterprise Services and Lakeside Software. Automation Alley applied for the grant in partnership with Oakland Community College and the
CLIMAX - Stephen Jessup, principal of the Jessup Group, is a Battle Creek native who used to travel to large cities for his healthcare accounting business. But when CTS Telecom Inc. installed high-speed optic fiber to a building in his hometown, he cut back on his travel and did more business with his clients in
ADA - Worldwide sales of Amway products jumped 17 percent to a record $10.9 billion, corporate parent Alticor reported Thursday, the sixth consecutive year of growth for the company. The 17 percent increase over 2010 sales of $9.2 billion was driven by broad global growth in sales from Russia to Thailand. The privately held company