Guest Columns

Why Most Small Businesses Never See A Return On Technology Investments

ROCHESTER HILLS - Does your business demand greater performance, rapid scalability and higher availability from your line of business and productivity applications to remain competitive? Are you seeking scalable, resilient, cost effective solutions to meet your business needs? Does your staff utilize office suite, CRM or service delivery applications? Would your business benefit from highly

By |2016-12-16T14:57:17-05:00December 16th, 2016|Guest Columns|

Advanced Statistical Analysis Shows No Evidence Of Systematic Tampering In Michigan Election

EAST LANSING - Anderson Economic Group, LLC, has completed a forensic analysis of the 2016 election results. In a letter to the Secretary of State, AEG concluded that the outcome of this analysis shows no evidence of fraud or tampering with the Michigan 2016 general election results of the office of the President. “This review

By |2016-12-16T15:22:06-05:00December 16th, 2016|Guest Columns|

Michigan Technological University Summer Youth Program Taking Applications For 2017

HOUGHTON - Michigan Technological University's Summer Youth Programs has announced its 2017 summer courses for middle and high school students, including several new explorations such as Coding for the Internet of Things, the World of Design, Global Discovery 101 and Computing Elements.   SYP includes pre-college explorations and competitive scholarship programs featuring hands-on activities, field trips

By |2016-12-13T20:12:55-05:00December 13th, 2016|Guest Columns|

Michigan Companies Assess Cannabis Market In State, Across The Nation 

EAST LANSING – Are the emerging markets for legal cannabis products across the United States a new gold rush or will sales disappear in a puff of smoke? Two Michigan-based companies have crunched the numbers to find out. The potential U.S. market demand—were cannabis products legal for recreational use nationwide in 2017—is $22.4 billion, according

By |2016-12-09T14:24:35-05:00December 8th, 2016|Featured, Guest Columns|

Looking For A Business Partner To Handle Your Tech Needs? Look At CloudTech1.Com

ROCHESTER HILLS - Let’s face it business owners…We are the star of our own show. Successful business owners, industrialists and entrepreneurs have vision, drive and the savvy to form any business entity we want because of how we think. Whether we are a current professional, a C-level officer on the brink of retirement or an

By |2016-12-02T16:10:03-05:00December 2nd, 2016|Guest Columns|

The Trouble With Recounts in the Name of Hacking

GRAND LEDGE - With suspicions of hacking, Jill Stein is asking for a recount of the votes cast in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. This is a bad idea. Here are 10 reasons why. Jill Stein is raising plenty of money via her website to the pay for the government recount efforts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and

By |2016-11-28T19:05:49-05:00November 28th, 2016|Featured, Guest Columns|

Tech-Policy Think Tank Offers Trump Administration Quick-Start Policy Checklist For 2017

WASHINGTON - The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Wednesday released an open memo to President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team outlining actionable proposals that the new administration can accomplish in its first year to bolster America’s innovation economy. Think tank ITIF proposes 36 policies that can be achieved quickly through executive authority or discrete

By |2016-11-16T20:08:22-05:00November 16th, 2016|Guest Columns|

Mobile-Friendly: Google’s Getting Real Serious and So Should You

FLINT - Here we go again. Another potential massive shake up with how Google structures their index and trust me on this, it will have an impact on your site’s rankings! Google is taking mobile-friendly to a new level. All of this has to do with the seismic shift people are making to mobile. For

By |2016-11-11T08:58:37-05:00November 11th, 2016|Guest Columns|

(Not so) Dirty Word Of The Day: Outsourcing

ROCHESTER HILLS - One of the challenges CloudTech1 faces each day when talking with potential partners and clients is their fear of “outsourcing.” CloudTech1 excels at helping clients outsource their IT. That’s not a bad thing. Taking the unnecessary stresses away from a business decision maker and passing them on to a Managed Service Provider

By |2016-11-11T08:31:26-05:00November 11th, 2016|Guest Columns|

Behind The Wheel – Hackers Attack Unprotected Connected Vehicles

ANN ARBOR - In July 2015, a pair of hackers commandeered a Jeep Cherokee through its Uconnect entertainment system to attack the vehicle’s brakes, engine and navigation system. Fiat Chrysler responded by patching the vulnerability and then issuing a recall for 1.4 million vehicles. Fast forward to July 2016: Fiat Chrysler announced it would pay

By |2016-11-03T18:54:54-04:00November 3rd, 2016|Cyber Defense, Guest Columns|