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
ANN ARBOR ? I don?t often take the opportunity to write directly to my readers and listeners, but MITechNews.Com has so much great news to announce I wanted to share it with you in our Guest Column. Hi. I?m Mike Brennan, Editor and Publisher of MITechNews.Com. I founded the web news portal site in the
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
ANN ARBOR - After years on the tech scenes in San Francisco and New York, and with serious start-up and customer acquisition successes to his credit, Shelby Twp. native Shane Bliemaster watched Southeast Michigan?s tech industry growth with more than just passing interest. And, in return, the burgeoning tech start-up scene wouldn?t stop trying to
NOVI - This is a critical time for Michigan?s economic recovery, a time when we all need to work together to keep the state?s growth momentum going. Since the end of the recession, unemployment has dropped in Michigan. Our state is one of the leading states in the Great Lakes region where housing prices are
HOUGHTON - 3D printing guru Joshua Pearce wants nothing more than to provide the means of production to everyone, especially people in developing regions who must get by on very little. But there has been a drawback. 3D printers make all manner of fun and useful things, but they do require electricity. And the grid
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan says that gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer?s proposal to broaden the base of Michigan's Corporate Income Tax takes Michigan in the wrong direction and would hurt the economic recovery of the state?s entrepreneurs. ?I am aghast that candidate Schauer suggests rolling back business tax reform and returning the