LANSING ? Michigan Senate Republicans on Thursday drastically changed legislation directing how local governments would receive reimbursement in exchange for curbing the personal property tax. The key change cited by local government organizations, which have switched from opposition to neutral as a result, would reinstate the personal property tax to its current form if future
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder took part in a high-level meeting with Canadian Transport Minister Denis Lebel and the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, David Jacobson, in Windsor, Ontario, Thursday, to discuss details regarding the proposed new international bridge between Detroit and Canada. A spokesperson for Snyder said the meeting was a continuation of the conversations
WASHINGTON D.C. ? Summer vacationers beware. Recent analysis from the FBI and other government agencies demonstrates that malicious actors are targeting travelers abroad through pop-up windows while establishing an Internet connection in their hotel rooms. Recently, there have been instances of travelers' laptops being infected with malicious software while using hotel Internet connections. In these
LANSING ? Michigan public employee retirement systems may soon be able to more greatly diversify their retirement portfolio and expand their funds globally if a bill reported Wednesday from the Senate Appropriations Committee becomes law. "At the end of the day, the world has changed," said Sen. Mark Jansen (R-Gaines Township), sponsor of the bill.
LONDON - Analyst firm Ovum said Android will be the dominant operating system in the smartphone market over the next five years as handset vendors rush to make it their primary smartphone platform. Smartphones will outperform the overall market for mobile phones, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.9 percent for the
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