WASHINGTON DC - Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, never dreamed he'd be fodder for late-night TV comedians. But 12 months into his agency's rewrite of rules governing Internet access, he's still trying to explain his plan for saving the Internet. A former wireless and cable industry lobbyist and venture capitalist appointed to
CUPERTINO - Apple has a lot to do to top 2014. This year, Apple introduced larger screen iPhones, showed off its first wearable and launched a mobile-payments service. That was on top of updates to its Mac and tablet lines and improvements in its mobile and computer software. Apple also made its biggest acquisition ever
NOVI - Events of 2014 have trigged more changes in Michigan?s energy landscape than we?ve seen in a number of years. More renewable energy is coming online, and plans are being made to shut down number of coal-based generation units around the state as new federal clean air standards phase in. Each of these changes
DETROIT - Returning to its roots as a mainframe software provider, Compuware has spun off is application performance management software unit. Users of mainframe optimization software and APM software could each benefit from the split. The companies acting separately should be better able to serve constituents than a monolithic single entity could, say the respective
DETROIT - Small and medium-sized businesses are quickly moving to the cloud. And they?re finding that cloud-based services - software as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service provided by vendors from remote locations ?in the cloud? - offer advantages over terrestrial products. For example, with these applications, SMBs can more
DETROIT - To meet customer demands, Internet service providers, in general, are now doubling network speeds every two years?while at the same time, significantly reducing the costs of this faster bandwidth. Having greater bandwidth at lower cost is important to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It gives them?for the first time?the ability to compete successfully
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DETROIT - Over the past few years, big data has caught the attention of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in a big way. Why? Because SMBs have learned that, like their larger counterparts, they, too, can use big data to cost effectively mine all the information collected about their customers, businesses or competitors. Now SMBs
HOUGHTON - Michigan Technological University?s award-winning Peace Corps Master?s International program is offering new degree options for students in two departments: computer science and electrical and computer engineering (ECE). The School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science is also expanding its PCMI programs to include a Master of Geographic Information Science. The expanded programs will
NOVI - Much of the discussion about Michigan?s economic recovery centers on attracting and retaining businesses and jobs, and on educating our students to be well prepared for those jobs. In keeping with ITC?s desire to be a good neighbor and an involved corporate citizen of the communities we serve, we actively support organizations and