LANSING - In its continuing effort to ensure that Michigan-based businesses are in the forefront of receiving state contracts, Michigan Department of Management and Budget Director Lisa Webb Sharpe on Monday said officials are embarking on a statewide tour to generate more buzz about the program so that 90 percent, or a 5 percent increase,
MADISON HEIGHTS - Media Genesis managing partner, Antoine Dubeauclard, the former chairman of InternetTroy, on Monday was named president of the Internet application development and design company, which celebrates its ten-year anniversary in April. Media Genesis specializes in the development of corporate websites, Intranets, and E-Learning Courseware and Systems. ?It is very exciting to see
FARMINGTON HILLS - IT consulting and outsourcing company Covansys Corp. announced Tuesday a partnership with JBoss Inc. that will let Covansys offer application development to companies that use JBoss Enterprise Middleware software. JEMS is an open source platform for SOA (service-oriented architecture), which offers a more flexible, standards-based alternative to commercial software stacks. JEMS products
ALMONT - Vehicle Research and Development, which provides automotive powertrain and physical test equipment and services, announced on Tuesday an alliance with Lapeer-based Testing Services Group to create a partnership to develop business opportunities for physical and powertrain test services. Services include life cycle and mechanical testing, temperature and humidity testing, and engine and transmission
DETROIT - There's a new wireless player coming to metropolitan Detroit that will offer flat-rate, pay-by-the-month cell phone service with no long-term contracts starting April 18. MetroPCS Communications, a Dallas-based wireless service provider, will offer service plans that range from about $30 to $50 a month for unlimited minutes in a footprint that ranges north
REDMOND, Wa. - An unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer could aid fraudsters in pulling off phishing scams, experts warned. The error could be exploited to fake the address bar in a browser window, security monitoring company Secunia said in an advisory. This tactic could be used in phishing scams that attempt to trick people into
TROY - EDS has made a $380 million offer to buy a majority stake in an Indian business-process outsourcing company in Bangalore, India-based Mphasis, which has some 12,000 employees. EDS said last month that it was looking at acquisitions in India, China, Korea and central Europe. Mike Jordan, CEO of EDS, said in a statement:
KALAMAZOO - Helping more than 80 Michigan companies get up to speed on the potential of Radio Frequency Identification technology has earned a nomination for a U. S. Department of Defense national award for KVCC's Michigan Technical Education Center. The nomination of the M-TEC's RFID Center and its coordinator, Kathy Johnson, has been submitted by
LANSING - Newly-named Michigan State Treasurer Robert Kleine, an architect of the Single Business Tax, said Thursday the SBT has become a distraction and needs to be replaced. But his appointment by Gov. Jennifer Granholm immediately recasts the debate over the SBT and the drive by Republicans to quicken its death. Kleine replaces Jay Rising,
DETROIT ? Although thousands of people are worried about their jobs in the auto industry, that industry is actually hiring. Engineers are desperately needed by a long list of companies as evidenced by the help wanted signs hung at the SAE World Congress Career Fair this week in Detroit. The Career Fair featured a dozen