TRAVERSE CITY ? Neil Jackson provides news briefs and observations in part two of his fly-on-the wall report from the Center For Automotive Research's Management Briefing Seminars that took place last week in Traverse City. STRAIGHT ANSWER. Asked whether the auto industry world is still round or getting flat, Toyota's U.S. manufacturing chief Gary Convis
FARMINGTON HILLS - During the dot-com era, just five short years ago, the answer was apparent: private equity and the grandeur of exorbitant wealth in the global financial markets fueled the innovative appetites of technologists and inventors to build technologies and systems that arguably had more sizzle than business value. The business learned from this
TRAVERSE CITY ? Neil Jackson presents a fly on the wall insider report this week from the Center For Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars. Tuesday's report looks at Ford, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, globalization, and Toyota. Is Ford in his future? A reporter asked Phil Martens, the suddenly former president and COO of Plastech Engineered Products,
LOS ANGELES - Bhopal. Exxon Valdez. DDT. Fentanyl. Sarin. Hydrochloric acid. LNG. These are words tied to chemicals that conjure up death and destruction resulting in a crisis. And a crisis means publicity. What often turns a chemical emergency into a crisis or disaster is surprise, compounded by confusion and errors that occur during the
ANN ARBOR - The increasing functionality of mobile devices, driven by products like Blackberry and Treo telephones, is quickly chewing away at the tether that linked users with their personal computers. Today's devices merge email, text messages and web traffic all in a small, handheld device, opening up yet another frontier for marketing and communications.
SOUTHFIELD - Kids today have grown up on computers: With ease they navigate the Internet, design PowerPoint presentations for class, and play realistic video games. Hours spent on Instant Messenger mean those small fingers pound the keyboard faster than their parents. So, it seems odd so many girls are shying away from pursuing technology careers.
FARMINGTON HILLS - Many are familiar with the process by which a user supplies credentials - whether it is a basic username and password or a more advanced strong schema of either 2-factor or certificate - to access a resource, much like using a key to open a lock in a door. This authorization to
GRAND RAPIDS - Last month IP3 convened the Second Annual VoIP Security Forum hosted by Illinois Institute of Technology. We again had experts from academia, the vendor community and industry. The breadth and depth of coverage was outstanding; but it left most of us with a growing discomfort over the lack of progress on technologies
PITTSBURGH - Your recent article, Telecom Reform in Michigan Could Save Consumers Money, Create Jobs, repeated a number of claims made by Bell telephone companies and their friends in their effort to get special favors from legislators. While they claim to support lower prices for consumers, what they really want is a leg-up over their
TROY - The United Inventors Association says that less than one in 20 patented inventions ever makes it to the marketplace. How can that be? If something is good enough to patent, won't people want to buy it? Short answer: Probably not. Patenting your whiz-bang may be the first step on a journey to the