SAN FRANCISCO - McAfee is looking into a problem with a service in its SaaS Endpoint Protection software that appears to be allowing computers to serve as open proxies for sending spam, the company told CNET. A McAfee customer posted on a Microsoft Technet forum that "McAfee has developed a patch that will instruct rumor
LANSING ? The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday that the City of Detroit has won a $400,000 Advanced Lighting Technology Demonstration grant to upgrade street lights in six areas of the city. ?The State of Michigan is pleased to partner with the City of Detroit and DTE Energy to replace aging and inefficient lighting
SOUTHFIELD - The average age of cars and light trucks on the road today is a record 10.8 years, offering a sales opportunity for both the automotive aftermarket and for automakers who hope the public will buy new, rather than fix up. The annual survey from R.L. Polk shows the average age of cars and
LANSING - Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been linked to a variety of environmental problems around the country, but industry officials said a combination of the state's geography and its regulations would prevent those incidents in Michigan. Though the issue has become a hot button for environmentalists in recent months, Michigan has had wells that
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday its co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from its board of directors, severing all ties with the Internet company he started nearly two decades ago. In a statement, Yang said: "the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside Yahoo." He added that he was also was
LANSING - Economists testifying at Friday's Revenue Estimating Conference saw good signs of economic growth in Michigan going forward, but concerns about the national economy and the debt crisis in Europe, which affects the state, are ever present. George Fulton of the University of Michigan's Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics said the state is more
LANSING ? The state of Michigan's official travel and tourism web site attracted more visits than any state tourism web site in the country for the fifth consecutive year, according to the independent online measurement company Experian Hitwise. Michigan.Org received 7.69 percent of the overall market share of visits to state tourism sites, and had
LANSING ? The state of Michigan's official travel and tourism web site attracted more visits than any state tourism web site in the country for the fifth consecutive year, according to the independent online measurement company Experian Hitwise. Michigan.Org received 7.69 percent of the overall market share of visits to state tourism sites, and had
SAN FRANCISCO - The Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the United States ? the Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP in the U.S. Senate. If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open
DETROIT - Five years ago, Bob Lutz stood in front of a curious crowd at the North American International Auto Show and introduced the Chevrolet Volt electric plug-in concept car to the world. This week Lutz introduced a line of extended-range electric pickup trucks, vans and SUVs that he thinks make more sense than the