NEW YORK - IT spending worldwide will reboot in 2010, rising 8.1 percent after last year's 8.9 percent freefall, Forrester Research predicts in a report released Tuesday. Businesses and governments are expected to spend $1.6 trillion on information technology throughout 2010, Forrester predicts, CNET News.Com reported. In the U.S. alone, IT spending is likely to
LANSING - Both of the state's two largest utilities have now been ordered to repay customers for excessive rates they had self-implemented with the completion of a rate case Monday for Detroit Edison. Edison will have to refund $62.6 million plus interest, meaning about a 1.3 percent rate cut for customers, the Public Service Commission
LANSING - It looks like the nation started pulling itself out of the recession sometime around the third quarter of last year, but it won't be until the same time in 2011 that Michigan can expect to see modest job growth, economists said Monday during the Revenue Estimating Conference. By the time Michigan recovers, 11
LANSING ? Michigan could yet see rules requiring businesses to implement ergonomics programs. True to her word, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is disregarding language in the Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth 2009-10 budget prohibiting spending on the rules. And true to their history, business groups continue efforts to block them. Doug Kalinowski with the
LANSING - Election-year politics, including having two legislative leaders seeking statewide office, is creating a time crunch for Business Leaders for Michigan to get its Michigan Turnaround Plan into law, the head of the group said Friday. Doug Rothwell, president and CEO of the group formerly known as Detroit Renaissance, said part of the organization's
DETROIT - GM chairman Ed Whitacre predicted the company will return to profitability this year. Of course, he didn't attach any numbers to that prediction, nor did we learn if he's talking about an operating profit, a pre-tax profit, or, the one that really counts in my book, a net profit. Even so, the profit
LAS VEGAS - Ford Motor is making its vehicles an Internet application platform by giving drivers access to streaming media and other smartphone applications. During a keynote on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show, Ford CEO Alan Mulally plans to show off the latest high-tech touches to the interior of Ford vehicles, including a redesigned
LANSING ? Michigan's Department of Information Technology issued a Request for Information Thursday to get industry feedback on building a new state data center ? of up to 100,000 square foot ? to consolidate three smaller less efficient facilities. In this Threatcast interview, Amy Baumer, Director of the Office of Enterprise Development, talks about what
LANSING - The Michigan House Fiscal Agency had a mixed bag projection for 2010-11, predicting general fund revenues will see a slight uptick, but School Aid Fund dollars will come up short. The fiscal agency's report was released Wednesday in preparation for the Revenue Estimating Conference to be held Monday. Each legislative fiscal agency releases
SAN FRANCISCO - We knew it was coming, but we had to wait for Google to spill the news before we could talk about it with authority. And the company did so Tuesday morning at a press conference at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. As expected, the Nexus One is a new Google Android