MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - When Google announced Android, its wide-ranging cellphone project, last November, it promised a mobile platform more open than any other in the wireless industry. On Tuesday, the Internet giant released the Android platform source code for free via a new Web site, Forbes magazine reported. The release comes just a day
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission warned in its winter energy appraisal that the cost of natural gas could rise as much as 21 percent. Now small business owners and their employees can hedge against this likely increase through a new member-only program being offered by the Small Business Association of Michigan. Small business
DEARBORN - Ford is offering iPhone and iPod touch users a unique and free software application from the Apple App Store that enables them to enhance existing or new photographs, courtesy of the all-new 2009 Ford Flex. �??Flex consumers love new technology, and we know that a lot of them have iPhones, so we wanted
SALINE - DesignHub, a creative services and marketing company, has developed the new websites for Advanced Photonix and its subsidiary Picometrix, both headquartered in Ann Arbor. DesignHub?s services for Advanced Photonix and Picometrix included planning the new websites, designing their graphical user interfaces, editing content, programming the sites, and populating the sites? pages with content.
DETROIT - EnVironmental Transportation Solutions has created a new video of all the EcoVElectric models with computer generated animation. The video is accessible on the EcoVElectric.Com website. A second version is in process to add narration to the video. The response has been great to the images which really show what the production EcoV will
LANSING - The federal government should transfer management of the housing bailout portion of the giant financial bailout package to the states, Governor Jennifer Granholm has said in an interview with Michigan Public Radio. All the states have housing arms of their governments and once the federal government recreates many of the mortgages that now
ANN ARBOR - October 31 is the last day to receive early-bird pricing for attending the MichBio Expo, which takes place on November 18-19 at the Rock Financial ShowPlace in Novi. It is the 4th Annual Expo presented by MichBio, the association for the biosciences industry in Michigan. Exhibit booth prices also go up Nov.
ROCHESTER - Oakland University will host Stem Cell Research: The Science, the Cures and the Law, an informational conference Oct. 28 at the Oakland Center Banquet Rooms. The forum will be led by Marcia Baum, executive director of Michigan Citizens for Stem Cell Research and Cures, from 6:30-8:30 p.m.. A question and answer session featuring
LANSING - Clerks across the state are gearing up for higher than anticipated voter turnout in the election, by trying to get more poll workers to precincts and adding additional voting stations. Although final voter registration figures for the state are not yet available, the intense interest in the presidential race is driving the anticipation
GRAND RAPIDS - Ray DeWinkle, well know vice president of business development for the Right Place economic development program in Grand Rapids is leaving that job to become President and CEO of GreaterFindlay, an economic development group that serves Findlay and Hancock counties in Ohio. DeWinkle assumes his new post on Nov. 17. "Ray served