EGHAM, United Kingdom ? As if further evidence was needed to demonstrate the market acceptance of smartphones, worldwide sales to consumers in the third quarter of 2014 grew by 20.3 percent to 301 million units, while sales of more conventional mobile phones were flat, a news survey from Gartner reports. ?Sales of feature phones declined
LANSING ? Michigan House and Senate leaders have decided to put legislation that would increase funding for roads into a House-Senate conference committee in hopes a compromise can be found using that legislative mechanism. The decision came after a Tuesday meeting of the Legislative Quadrant and Governor Rick Snyder. Spokespersons for House Speaker Jase Bolger
LANSING - The Senate on Tuesday voted to send to Governor Rick Snyder a revised version of a bill aimed at increasing work in Michigan for those in the film industry and receiving some income tax from higher-paid producers or actors from certain successful projects. SB 1103 had recently been changed by the House to
LANSING - Schools would have to modify their policy prohibiting bullying to include cyberbullying and include assurance of confidentiality for an individual who reported an act of bullying, as well as procedures to safeguard that confidentiality, under a bill passed by the Senate on Thursday. SB 74 saw some perhaps unexpected debate on the Senate
DETROIT - Tel Ganesan, CEO and Founder of Kyyba and President of TiE Detroit has become the chairperson for Connect India Now, an initiative to provide Indian cities, NGO's, villages and small businesses with cutting edge technology that will not only connect them to each other, but to their counterparts in the United States. The
DETROIT ? If you want to submit a crime tip anonymously to the Detroit Police Department, there?s now an app for that. Detroit Labs has churned out yet another smart phone application, this one for the DPD that provides information about the city and departments, allows tips to be submitted anonymously through the app and
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP ? Suniva has announced it will recruit another 75 people by mid-January to work at its factory near Saginaw, formerly a Sears Warehouse, joining about 30 people who already are building high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells and modules. Suniva has partnered with Great Lakes Bay Michigan Works! Qualified candidates will take the
WASHINGTON - The FBI still can't prove who was - or wasn't - behind last month's cyberattack on Sony Pictures, which led to the theft of thousands of documents and revealed confidential information about the company and its employees. "There is no attribution to North Korea at this point," said Joe Demarest, assistant director of
ANN ARBOR - Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, looks into his crystal ball for 2015 and sees technology continuing to shake up the business world. Here are his predictions: The war for connected wearables heats up The broader trend
LANSING - The Michigan Film Office on Monday announced the approval of film and digital media incentives for the final five projects of fiscal year 2014, bringing its year-end totals to 27 projects awarded more than $63.7 million in incentives. The Film Office said the incentives would generate more than $245.4 million of projected expenditures