SAN FRANCISCO - Lookout Mobile Security, which just raised fresh capital to boost its fight against mobile malware, said it has identified the peskiest cell phone threat to date. The Android Trojan, dubbed Geinimi, has cropped up in China and is capable of taking a significant amount of personal data and sending it to remote
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple is being sued for allegedly letting mobile apps on the iPhone and iPad send personal information to ad networks without the consent of users. Jonathan Lalo, who filed the lawsuit on Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., alleges that Apple's iPhones and iPads let ad networks track which
LANSING ? Former Michigan political PR pros Sara and Brad Wurfel are returning from Oregon to take similar jobs in Gov.-elect Rick Snyder's administration. Sara Wurfel will serve as press secretary and her husband, Brad, will serve as director of communications for the Department of Environmental Quality. ?We are so pleased that Sara and Brad
GRAND RAPIDS ? Happy Holidays from MITechNews.Com Editor & Publisher Mike Brennan to all my friends and readers in Michigan and beyond and a prosperous and healthy 2011. Whether you worship God, Buddha, Jehovah, Mohammed, Brahma, or any of the hundreds of other avatars who has returned to our earthly plane to teach us the
GRAND RAPIDS ? If you'd have a great web-based technology business idea, and you'd like to live in West Michigan for 12 weeks this summer, than the Momentum business accelerator program may be what you're looking for. You can apply now for the 2011 program. Momentum is open to any entrepreneur in Michigan or beyond.
WASHINGTON DC - The Federal Communications Commission today officially adopted controversial Net neutrality rules, but the fight is far from over as the FCC's authority to create and enforce these rules may still be in question. With the support of the Democratic FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, and two other Democratic commissioners, Michael Copps and Mignon
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University, through a partnership with Oakland County and the U.S. Department of Labor, has been awarded a federal grant to cover tuition for engineers living in Oakland County who enroll in its graduate certificate program in defense manufacturing engineering. As many as 15 engineers who meet the funding criteria will have
LANSING - Olga Dazzo, Governor-elect Rick Snyder's choice as Department of Community Health director, said Friday the state faces both large challenges and opportunities in changing the direction of health care and its cost. But she also said the state would continue to implement its portion of the new national health care law, especially those
LANSING - Of the 92 schools in Michigan deemed Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools, 45 now have approved restructuring plans, the Department of Education announced Friday. Another 22 of the schools have conditional approval of their plans, with teacher contract amendments needed by August 1 to receive full approval. Five of the schools either already closed
WASHINGTON - Congress passed the most far-reaching tax bill in a decade late Thursday, averting across-the-board tax increases, enacting new breaks for individuals and businesses and laying a marker for how Washington might work in an era of divided government. The bill goes to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature after the House