GM: Chevy Volt should get 230 mpg General Motors CEO Frtiz Henderson said Tuesday its Chevy Volt rechargeable electric car should get 230 miles per gallon of gasoline in city driving, more than four times the mileage of the current champion, the Toyota Prius. "The Volt is becoming very real, very fast," Henderson said at GM's Warren Tech Center. GM came up with the figure in early tests using draft guidelines from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for calculating the mileage of extended range electric vehicles, said Tony Posawatz, GM's vehicle line director for the Volt. If the figure is confirmed by the EPA, which does the tests for the mileage posted on new car door stickers, the Volt would be the first car to exceed triple-digit gas mileage, Posawatz said. More.
$650,000 in energy funding for three Michigan cities It's another energy boost for Michigan. Awarded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Dearborn, Flint, and Grand Rapids will split $657,325 for energy projects as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program. According to a media release from U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Carl Levin (D-MI), this funding is geared to help the three cities to develop an energy efficiency and conservation strategy, which details how the communities plan to save energy, reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, and create or save local jobs. More.
Verizon activates new cell site for MIS Verizon Wireless has activated a temporary cell site to improve its voice and data network around the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn.The new site will accommodate the anticipated crowd of about 100,000 visitors attending the NASCAR races and related events Aug. 14-16. The company has deployed a Cell on Light Truck to boost capacity in the area surrounding the race track. A COLT is a fully functional, generator-powered mobile cell site that enhances wireless capacity in a specific location -- and works especially well in dense areas with large crowds. More.
Mid Michigan Innovators speaker series hosts Alex Lindahl
The MidMichigan Innovation Center's MidMichigan Innovators Speaker Series will host a special guest, Alex Lindahl, Co-founder of College Mogul and Director of Ultra Light Start-ups, on Thursday, Aug. 13 beginning at 4:30 p.m. The event will take place in the Sloan Building of Northwood University in Midland. Lindahl will share his experiences as a young entrepreneur in Boston, and explain the workings of the “open source world” and harnessing the power of “crowd sourcing” to accelerate technology start-ups. Admission is free, but pre-registration is encouraged. More.
Another attack hits Twitter Twitter has suffered from another attack following one that left the site down for several hours last week. Tuesday's outage was brief. The online messaging site said in its status blog Tuesday afternoon that it is analyzing its traffic data to determine the nature of the latest attack. No other details were given. Last Thursday, Twitter was inaccessible for several hours following hacker attacks targeted at a Georgian blogger who uses the site. More.
URL shortener Trim reopens 'indefinitely' URL shortening service Trim is reopening its doors, restoring service to both existing Trim links and the core of the site that lets users make new ones. A company blog post that details the change of plans says that the company will continue to run Trim "indefinitely" while a trustworthy buyer is sought out.Trim originally began experiencing problems late last week as all of its shortened links stopped working for several hours. Then, over the weekend, the company announced that it would be shutting down come the end of December, taking all of its shortened links with it. More.
Google's Caffeine: A jolt to search rankings?
One of the largest behind-the-scenes updates to Google's search technology in three years is under way, as the company reworks its computing muscle. On Monday evening, Google quietly began soliciting feedback for "Caffeine," a new system for Web searches that is being tested completely separately from the live search results currently found through Google.com. More.
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