SAN FRANCISCO - Just when you thought the landscape of social-networking developer APIs couldn't get any more complicated, here comes another curveball. Facebook will reportedly open-source the code for its application platform. The news comes from TechCrunch and was reported by CNET News.Com. The announcement may be just days away. Facebook representatives did not immediately
LANSING - Michigan's strategic plan for government technology is centered on six goals that take Michigan beyond the realm of consolidation and into shared services and collaboration. �??The future is exciting and will bring greater partnerships with other state agencies as well as local government and private partners across Michigan, combining resources and transforming government
DETROIT - Microsoft Chief Information Officer Tony Scott headlines the fourth annual Midwest Technology Leaders Symposium June 4-5 at Detroit's MGM Grand Casino. Registration closes Friday May 30. This unique gathering of information technology and business leaders. CIOs (Chief Information Officers), and their teams at major Midwestern corporations, will gather, with key partners, on the
LANSING - The House Judiciary Committee last week took up 10 of the bills in a 12-bill identity theft package, with much of the testimony echoing remarks from Tuesday when the House Banking Committee took up the first two bills and learned that the financial and much of the business world are not on board
LANSING - John Hertel, director of the Regional Transit Coordinating Council, brought the State Fair back from the brink of its demise to solvency and now he is confident that he can shepherd through a plan to unify transit in the Metro Detroit area and provide that regional system business seeks. "In terms of the
LANSING - The Michigan House on Tuesday approved a 12-bill package requiring companies with state contracts or those pursuing economic development incentives to agree to hire Michigan workers first, which proponents say is an effort to put more accountability into the $1 billion in enticements the state gives away on an annual basis. The legislation
LANSING - The Michigan Senate Energy Policy and Public Utilities put out legislation Tuesday that could become something like the House-passed energy efficiency measures. Or it could be something different. The bill (SB 1228 ) as reported, unanimously, merely states legislative intent "to promote energy conservation and efficiency measures to save energy and reduce demand
LANSING - Michigan on Monday released its four-year IT strategic plan, which will spend more than $400 million to continue consolidating the state�??s Information Technology infrastructure. Michigan Chief Information Officer Ken Theis details what he has in store for the state in this News Maker Interview. Theis replaced former CIO Terri Takai who was recruited
GRAND RAPIDS - American manufacturers want change, and they want the three candidates for US president to not only hear them, but also deal with their demands, said David Brousell, editor and chief of Managing Automation magazine. Brousell will detail on Wednesday during PowerPlex the results of a survey of 2000 manufacturers his magazine conducted.
LANSING - Economists at Friday's revenue estimating conference were unyielding in assessing the problems facing the Michigan economy, but offered a glimmer of hope in suggesting the state is much closer to the end of the slump than to the beginning. They pegged the return to relatively good news by 2010. But in the nearer