LANSING - With the Legislature not moving on a plan to provide guaranteed increases to education, the K-16 Coalition is now planning to take the proposal directly to the voters, which would ask voters to guarantee inflationary increases for all K-12 schools, community colleges and universities. "We don't see any interest in the Legislature at
HOLLAND ? Sixty percent of large west Michigan companies say they will hire new information technology staff before the end of 2005 - double the number of companies with more than 1000 employees that planned technology employment increases for the first half of the year. This trend is another encouraging economic sign for the technology
LANSING - If the state does decide to securitize a portion of its tobacco settlement monies, the funds should be for economic development purposes only, the two Senate leaders said Thursday. Even then, Senate Minority Leader Bob Emerson (D-Flint) said he needed more convincing of the value of securitization, while Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema
GRAND RAPIDS ? Clinical Systems Implementations will be the topic of a conference July 28-29 by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in downtown Grand Rapids. Clinical System Implementations: The Road Less Traveled will highlight trends in the design and installation of productive healthcare information systems, and success
DETROIT - The 47-percent boost in sales at General Motors last month didn?t pull in as many customers from other automakers as GM hoped, according to new information from J.D. Power and Associates? Power Information Network (PIN). GM?s employee-discount program pulled forward customers who would have otherwise waited to buy a new GM product, rather
BOSTON - Two serious security flaws in a technology widely used for network authentication could expose a bunch of software products to hacker attack, experts warned Thursday. The flaws could allow an online intruder to crash or gain access to computers running Kerberos, a freely available authentication technology that was developed by the Massachusetts Institute
TROY - Automation Alley has retained for the next three years as its general counsel Raymond & Prokop, an active member of Southeast Michigan?s regional technology cluster. Raymond & Prokop maintains a big tax practice and has been branching out into technology, health care, real estate, automotive, manufacturing, non-profit, banking and Indian law. ?This is
LANSING - The Michigan small business economic climate seems stuck in an ice age but, paradoxically, small business hiring started heating up in the spring of 2005, carving a hole in that glacier. SBAM?s latest quarterly Small Business Barometer survey finds that 18 percent of small business owners hired more workers in the second quarter
SAN FRANCISCO - An outbreak of Trojan horse programs is hitting networks around the world, an e-mail security company has warned. MessageLabs said it has blocked 54,000 copies of new Downloader Trojans since Wednesday. The e-mails, which contain the Trojan horse programs Downloader.abc and Downloader.xz, purport to be spam reports from an IT administrator. The
LANSING - A bill that would sell three-quarters of the state's annual payments from the national tobacco settlement in exchange for an immediate $3 billion lump-sum payment that would be used to fund technology start ups, Merit Awards and the state Medicaid Benefits Trust Fund was introduced Wednesday in the Michigan House. The bill (HB