LANSING - Municipal utilities will have to notify the Michigan Public Service Commission of a shutoff resulting in death or serious injury of a customer under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The legislation permits the PSC to investigate these cases and refer matters to the Department of Attorney General if needed.
LANSING - Cisco is offering a free iPhone app that will allow people to get customized alerts on new security threats and other information for safe Web browsing. The app, which will be available on Friday in the Apple iTunes store, provides information about new malware signatures, bulletins for how to mitigate against threats, ways
ANN ARBOR - Although the Legislature receives outstanding short-term analysis from its House and Senate Fiscal agencies, it needs a similar nonpartisan arm with a more long-term approach, an economist said Friday. Timothy Bartik, senior economist for the Kalamazoo-based W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, said Washington state has had success with this approach and
ANN ARBOR - Amid the carnage of Michigan's shredded economy, economists at the University of Michigan found some glimmers of good news in their annual forecast issued Friday, saying the pace of job losses would slow substantially during 2010 and 2011. But the bottom line for the next two years will be a continued overall
ANN ARBOR - With the severe national recession of the past two years finally behind us, the pace of economic recovery will be slow and unemployment will remain high for quite some time, say economists at the University of Michigan in their annual forecast for the year ahead. "Based on the data currently available, the
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.- Becton,Dickinson and Company announced on Friday the completion of its $275 million acquisition of Ann Arbor-based HandyLab, an exit that brought a record setting $2 million return to early investor, the University of Michigan Wolverine Venture Fund. The Wolverine Venture Fund, part of the University of Michigan's Samuel Zell & Robert H.
LANSING - Studio owners, laborers and producers flooded a committee hearing Wednesday on the future of the state's film credits, telling lawmakers that Michigan's on-again, off-again love affair with providing incentives to the industry is a bad way to do business. The Senate has passed legislation scaling back the film credits, but at the start
LANSING - Businesses would potentially be able to get venture capital funding earlier in their development process and the state could see more venture capitalists under a proposal unveiled Wednesday to the Strategic Fund Board. Under the plan, $6 million of the funds that had gone through the Strategic Economic Investment and Commercialization Board for
WASHINGTON - A new report prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has concluded that the Asian nation is likely using his sophisticated IT systems to spy on America. The report, released Thursday, analyzed China's information warfare strategy and offered up a case study in which an unnamed U.S. company was infiltrated by
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft on Friday said it is working on a fix for a vulnerability in the Server Message Block file-sharing protocol in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2 that could be used to remotely crash a computer. The software giant had said that it was looking at the bug, discovered by