DETROIT ? If you missed the WJR Newsradio 760 interview of MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan and cyber security expert Richard Stiennon discussing their new cyber crime novella, you can listen to it on demand. To listen to the 10-minute segment that provides the back story on Cyber Styletto ? an insider?s look at the cyber
EGHAM, United Kingdom - Worldwide sales of mobile devices to end users totaled 428.7 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a 16.5 percent increase from the second quarter of 2010, according to Gartner Inc. Sales of smartphones were up 74 percent year-on-year and accounted for 25 percent of overall sales in the second
HONG KONG - Hackers broke into the Hong Kong stock exchange news Web site today, forcing the exchange to suspend trading of seven companies, according to The Wall Street Journal. The affected companies, which included HSBC, Cathay Pacific Airways and the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, which runs the bourse, had all released price-sensitive information
LANSING - Three organization representing retired workers have joined together in a brief before the Michigan Supreme Court arguing the recently enacted income tax on pensions is unconstitutional. The State Employees Retirement Association, the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association and AARP jointly made the argument to the court in an amicus brief. The
LANSING - This past spring the likelihood the United States would fall into another recession was at 10 percent in Lawrence Yun's mind; now that estimation has grown to 30 percent. Yun, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, told the National Conference of State Legislatures summit the "economic weapons" to combat a
GRAND RAPIDS ? Jason James, an independent film producer from Grand Rapids, is shooting an all digital movie in West Michigan using actors from around the state. The film, to be release around Christmas, is called Dirty Bomb ? and focuses on terrorist threatening to unleash a virus that would wipe out much of mankind.
LANSING - As the national and state economy began to sputter in spring, so did the optimism Michigan residents showed a few months earlier, according to the latest results from the State of the State Survey conducted by the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. In winter, 60 percent of
ANN ARBOR ? Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan contest, a staple on the Michigan entrepreneurial scene for eleven years, will continue for at least three more years thanks to a $1.1 million investment by the Michigan Strategic Fund. The GLEQ award was part of the $25 million given in July to eight organizations that support
LANSING - Lt. Governor Brian Calley said Thursday that there are other ways to authorize the construction of a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, in the event the Legislature does not pass the bills the Snyder administration has proposed. "This bridge will happen. There's a lot of ways the bridge can happen," he
LANSING - President Barack Obama will be in Holland on August 11 to visit the Johnson Controls Incorporated advanced battery facility, the White House announced Thursday. The goal of the tour, officials said, is to highlight the technology that could allow automobile manufacturers to meet new fuel economy standards. Obama will also focus on the