BOSTON - A steep drop in shipments of Android-based tablets offset a strong quarter from Apple and caused the media tablet market to miss projections for the first quarter of 2012 according to preliminary data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker. Total worldwide media tablet shipments for the quarter reached 17.4
DETROIT ? The FBI's top cyber cop in Detroit is the keynote speaker May 21 at the 2012 Spring HTCIA Conference where the focus is on exploring cyber espionage and law enforcement. The event is closed to the general public and press because of the sensitive nature of the information disclosed. But security professionals are
ANN ARBOR - A record 36 of the top 100 online retailers, lead by Amazon.Com, achieved the "threshold for excellence" on the annual Top 100 E-Retail Satisfaction Index from customer experience analytics company ForeSee. Scores of 80 or higher on ForeSee's 100-point scale are considered superior customer satisfaction performances. In 2010 and 2011, 28 websites
LANSING - A new Michigan House bill would take federal grants given to businesses to help them retool or expand so they can create green energy products and change the system into a revolving loan fund for businesses looking to do many of the same things, but with strings attached and penalties for not creating
ANN ARBOR - North America's largest display of vision and imaging components and systems will be on display May 8-10 during The Vision Show at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston sponsored by AIA, the world's largest machine vision trade association. Show hours run 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on May 8 and May 9
SAN FRANCSICO - While most Silicon Valley companies are keeping quiet about their thoughts on the cybersecurity bill, Mozilla has come out against the legislation. Other big name tech companies - Facebook, Microsoft, and Oracle - supporting the controversial Internet surveillance bill that passed in the House last week. "While we wholeheartedly support a more
LANSING - Critics of increasing enrollment in cyberschools pushed the idea Wednesday that the way SB 619 was amended at the last minute could actually allow for five times the number of students than supporters insisted it would, but the bill's backers and the administration say the 2 percent cap will be strictly enforced. Late
SALINE ? Automotive Components Holdings has reached a deal that will keep the ACH facility in Saline open for the foreseeable future. Faurecia will acquire the Saline business, which generates $1.1 billion annual sales [euro 835 million] supplying cockpit modules, instrument panels, door panels and center consoles for 12 vehicle programs assembled at eight Ford
LANSING - States across the country are largely showing continued improvement in their overall fiscal condition for the current 2011-12 fiscal year, a report from the National Conference of State Legislatures shows, with Michigan reporting a bit of a mixed picture on its performance. According to the report, Michigan is saying income tax collections are
LANSING - The new Secretary of State online services available at ExpressSOS.Com has topped one million transactions, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Tuesday. ?There?s never a line online,? Johnson said. ?Many of our most popular transactions now can be done in minutes from the comfort of your own home or anywhere you have Internet