LANSING - If the Department of Natural Resources no longer can afford to maintain the 23 state forest campgrounds it plans to close, then the DNR should offer to sell them to local governments for $1, several legislators from northern Michigan said Monday. The group is developing legislation that would transfer the management responsibilities of
MOUNT PLEASANT - Michigan's next promising businesses got a boost Friday in the form of $45,000 in start up funds during Central Michigan University's New Venture Competition. The competition was held to enrich the economic environment in Michigan and encourage the entrepreneurial spirit among CMU students. 24 teams presented their business plans to a panel
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of security researchers say they have found ways to trick online cashier systems into ordering items for free or at a discount. Researchers from Indiana University and Microsoft Research found security holes in a software development kit from payment hosting provider Amazon Payments, Rui Wang, a Ph.D. student at Indiana
YPSILANTI - A three-team alliance made up of teams with two-digit numbers won Michigan?s FIRST Robotics Championship Saturday at Eastern Michigan University?s Convocation Center. The winning alliance was comprised of Team 33, the Killer Bees, from Notre Dame Preparatory School; Team 67, the Heroes Of Tomorrow (HOT) Team from Huron Valley Schools; and Team 70,
SAN FRANCISCO - Cisco has unveiled a series of enhancements to several Cisco physical security products designed to help customers transition to IP-based safety and security systems. The changes were announced last week, as part of the Cisco Smart+Connected Communities initiative, at ISC West in Las Vegas. Three major changes were announced, upgrades to Cisco
MIDLAND - The definition of resilience is an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. What the definition does not cover is the cost of not being able to recover fast enough on your and the people around you. And, we all know that entrepreneurs need an overabundance of RESILIENCE to
DETROIT ? Strategic Staffing Solutions, the Detroit-based global information technology and business services company, has been ranked as the No. 3 women-owned business in Michigan by DiversityBusniess.com, a national web-based resource portal for business communications. The company was listed in a total of six categories by DiversityBusiness.com, which ranks companies based on revenue, employment numbers
SAN FRANCISCO - There's a new twist with some fake antivirus scareware that has cropped up. It accepts payment via SMS, according to antivirus firm CyberDefender. Typical rogue security programs infect the system first, then display pop ups warning that the computer is infected, and request payment to clean it up. The new programs are
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SOUTHFIELD ? ImageSoft has promoted John Koerner to engineering manager. Prior to his promotion, he was principal engineer for the Southfield-based technology company and helped lead the company's technical team. Koerner joined ImageSoft in 2004 as a software engineer and in 2008 was named principal engineer. He has worked in the technology industry since 1997