BURLINGAME, Calif. - Everyone knows traditional landline telephones are becoming less important, what with the rise of both mobile phones as well as free or low-cost Web-based telephony products like Skype. Who knew, though, that it was happening this quickly? A new study suggests nearly a quarter of U.S. households are without landline phones, having
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Republicans moved Wednesday toward a budget that slashes funding for local governments, roads and economic development programs, the 21st Century Jobs Fund and the Pure Michigan advertising campaign - but doesn't raise taxes. Financially battered local governments would suffer another blow under a budget plan approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee
LANSING - An audit heavily critical of the state's main economic development program has actually helped the Michigan Economic Development Corporation as it's been revising its own audit procedures, MEDC CEO Greg Main told a House panel Wednesday, even though the audit has resulted in some "adverse publicity" for the state. Main told the House
ANN ARBOR ? An industrial energy education center is coming to the University of Michigan courtesy a $765,500 grant from the state through the US Department of Energy. UM's Michigan Industrial Energy Center will provide education and a certification program to train industrial energy managers in specific strategies for how to save energy. The MIEC
DETROIT - A Wayne State University spinoff company is highlighted in a national report that shows how investment in basic research leads to innovation and job creation. The report, "Sparking Economic Growth: How federally funded university research creates innovation, new companies and jobs," released by The Science Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of 45 of
LANSING - Managed web hosting company, Liquid Web, has added a new feature for its cloud computing platform - Storm On Demand - called Storm Bare Metal, which allows users to provision and manage private dedicated servers with Cloud Hosting features. Storm Bare Metal is a server technology that allows users to provision and manage
SAN FRANCISCO - With Facebook's security and privacy standards under fire from all sides, suffice it to say that this is not a good time for one of the company's investors to fall for a Facebook phishing scam. On Saturday evening, a Facebook event invitation was sent to some of the over 2,300 friends of
SAN FRANCISCO - On the heels of a worm that was installing backdoors on Windows systems via Yahoo Instant Messenger comes a new worm that is even more sophisticated in its social engineering and payload, reports security firm Bkis. The malware arrives via instant message through Yahoo or Skype with any one of a number
LANSING - After ending the week with both sides claiming the other had to reach out, it appeared Monday as though the two lead negotiators on a retirement package for school employees were once again trying to get to a compromise. But the two sides still seem to be in disagreement over several parts of
ANN ARBOR - Accuri Cytometers, which produes a bench-top flow cytometer, and eBioscience, the No. 2 supplier of research flow cytometry reagents, on Monday announced they have signed a worldwide co-marketing agreement. The collaboration is designed to offer scientists a better and more comprehensive solution for their flow cytometry research needs, harnessing the cost-effectiveness, ease-of-use,