CALEDONIA, Mich. - MarketLab Inc., which is a catalog supplier of specialty products and services for healthcare professionals, announced Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Petulama, Calif.-based Newmatic Medical. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Newmatic Medical is a direct marketer of MRI products
SOUTHFIELD - Verizon Wireless announced Monday that it is near completion of a major capacity improvement project for its high-speed 3G network in Michigan this year that will ensure the company continues to stay ahead of its customers' growing data usage on their smart phones, wireless modems and handsets. The project has entailed adding 3G
WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would have the power to "establish and enforce" cybersecurity requirements including issuing fines of up to $100,000 a day for non compliance with DHS directives. Legislation introduced this week would allow Napolitano to levy those and other civil penalties on noncompliant companies that the government deems "critical," a
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea has installed digital "bunkers" to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts of the country last year. The nation was floored after huge streams of junk internet data poured across South Korea's networks last year, targeting the infrastructure of government and businesses in what
SAN FRANCISCO - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says news reports suggesting that it's close to an agreement to provide India with lawful access to monitor and access network data are "inaccurate" and "misleading." One story CNET found, published yesterday in the Indian paper Mint, quotes an unnamed senior official from India's Home Ministry who
SAN FRANCISCO - Novell, a software company that rose to power along with Intel-based computers but failed to keep up with rivals such as Microsoft and Red Hat, announced Monday an end to its independence with a Microsoft-boosted $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate. Under the agreement, privately held Attachmate will pay $6.10 per share for
CUPERTINO, Ca. ? Apple announced that its latest operating system update for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users was available Monday. iPad users will now be able to multitask by switching from one app to another, organize apps via folders, and more easily jump from one e-mail inbox to another. Owners of Apple's popular tablet
LIVONIA - TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. has won its first contract to supply an integrated Driver Assist System and chassis control unit for a major European car manufacturer. TRW will begin to supply the control units, known as the Safety Domain ECU or SDE, in 2013 for 2014 model year applications. The SDE integrates a
ROLLING MEADOWS ? TG Fluid Systems USA Inc. of Brighton has received a 2010 Award from the Association for Manufacturing Excellence maintaining global competitiveness throughout unstable economic conditions and positioning its organizations as leaders during the economy's recovery phase. AME?s Manufacturing Excellence Awards honor companies that demonstrate significant progress in their journeys toward enterprise excellence
AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, provider of Plex Online, the No. 1 rated SaaS manufacturing ERP software, has released a new new paper from researchers at Aberdeen Group that sheds light on the acceptance of software as a service (SaaS) ERP systems. The report is titled ?Leveraging SaaS ERP for Impressive Results? and is available