LANSING - Members of the Mid-Michigan Creative Alliance announced plans to open their doors to area businesspeople interested in learning more about the very active and well-respected marketing and advertising community in Lansing. It's all part of the second annual Studio Crawl, which will take place April 23 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Each
DETROIT - A Wayne State University researcher received $127,874 from the National Science Foundation to develop the framework for a network that connects pervasive, embedded sensors that are highly diverse in function, with the ultimate goal of communicating information directly to the Internet. The network sensors, which can be placed virtually anywhere, can detect light
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. - In its' annual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec says it expects that malicious code developers will continue to increasingly adapt attacks in order to evade detection and that some overt attack activities could be abandoned or pushed further underground. Malicious activity will be increasingly pushed to regions with emerging infrastructures that
ROCHESTER HILLS - Michael Thibideau, CIO at Webasto North America, is the ConnecTech Mentor of the Month. To learn more about this mentorship program, which pairs verteran CIOs with up and comers, listen to this Newsmaker Interview. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
TRAVERSE CITY - Brian Hall, vice president of the ConnecTech Grand Traverse Bay chapter, is the April member profile on the ConnecTech Channel. To listen, click on MITechNews.MediaRica.Com a>>
AUBURN HILLS - Will Fiat's CEO, Sergio Marchione, become the CEO of Chrysler as well? That's from a report in Italian newspaper La Stampa. Of course, we always knew that Bob Nardelli was brought in by Cerberus to run Chrysler for a limited amount of time, until he got its finances cleaned up. My assumption
REDMOND - The use of scareware and exploits that take advantage of common file formats like PDF, Excel and Word rose in the second half of last year as online scammers realized people are getting smarter about recognizing spam and phishing e-mails, according to a Microsoft security report released last week. There was a significant
WASHINGTON DC - The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the past six months cleaning up after Internet attacks and network issues, military leaders said on last week. "The important thing is that we recognize that we are under assault from the least sophisticated-what I would say the bored teenager-all the way up to
WASHINGTON DC - Two U.S. senators introduced legislation late last month that calls for naming a national cybersecurity adviser who reports directly to the president and who would have the authority to disconnect federal or critical infrastructure networks from the Internet if they were deemed to be at risk of attack. This proposed legislation comes
SAN FRANCISCO - The Cloud Security Alliance, whose founding members include eBay, PGP, and Qualys, is seeking to promote the best ways to secure cloud computing and outline how to use cloud computing for the protection of other types of computing. "The very nature of how businesses use information technology is being transformed by the