Northern
Michigan University launches WiMax wireless Web service
Northern Michigan University in Marquette
and the Home & Networks Mobility business of Motorola Inc. of Arlington
Heights, Ill. Thursday made history by launching the school's new mobile
WiMax network. The start of this new high-speed campus-wide wireless
broadband service coincides with the 10th anniversary of the school's
laptop program. With this rollout NMU becomes the first university in
the United States to deploy a fully functional Motorola WiMAX network.
At Thursday's kick-off event nearly 3,000 of the school's more than
9,000 students received new WiMax-enabled laptops. Students, faculty
and guests also had the opportunity to experience WiMax on the go --
including video chat sessions -- through demonstrations of students
using WiMAX in off-campus sites. More.
Web
development firm adds six staff, moves to new office Ann Arbor-based Switchback LLC, a Web development
firm specializing in content management systems, announced this week
the addition of six full and part time positions to its payroll. The
additions include industry specialists in the areas of software development,
Web site design and project management. Switchback has experienced continual
growth since opening its doors in April of 2008. More.
Comcast
boosts HD, moves basic cable channels to digital Comcast announced the addition of 15 new
High Definition channels to its HD lineup in the communities of Birmingham,
Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms, Bloomfield Township, Bloomfield Hills,
Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Franklin -- the first wave of a massive
HD expansion made possible by the company’s ongoing digital network
enhancement. As part of its
“World of More” digital upgrade, Comcast is digitizing channels
29 through 72 in these communities to clear the way for additional HD
programming, more On Demand programming, faster Internet speeds and
other benefits. The 15 newly launched HD channels represent the latest
benefits to local Comcast customers in these towns. More.
X-Rite swaps
debt for preferred stock Kentwood-based
X-Rite Inc. announced that it had entered into a series of transactions
under which X-Rite issued preferred stock and warrants to purchase common
stock to existing shareholders OEPX LLC, Sagard Capital Partners L.P.,
and Tinicum Capital Partners II L.P., in exchange for the cancellation
of $41.6 million of second-lien loans. The exchange transactions result
in the reduction of the principal amount of the Company’s first
and second lien debt by $41.6 million to $195.1 million. More.
DTE
discounts give 'green' light to CFLs; utility adds other services
DTE Energy is making it easier -- and more affordable -- for its Detroit
Edison customers to make their homes greener and more energy efficient
with discounts of up to 50 percent on compact fluorescent light bulbs.
The specially priced bulbs are available now through DTE Energy at several
area retailers for as little as 99 cents apiece. The CFL discounts are
part of DTE Energy's Your Energy Savings initiative, designed to help
its customers save money and help the environment by saving energy.
As part of this effort, the company is introducing a number of other
new energy efficiency programs this month including home energy audits
and help for low-income customers to make energy efficiency improvements.
More.
Is your house or business perfect for the movies?
Would you like Steven Spielberg to visit your cornfield? Here’s
how you can maybe make it happen: Go to www.michiganfilmoffice.org,
click on the Submit Location tab, and post up to 10 jpeg-format photos
of your business or residence free of charge.
“Offering the use of your home, land
or business as a location can be fun and profitable,” said Michael
Grabemeyer, Locations Manager of the Michigan Film Office. “We
are growing an exciting new industry in Michigan and this is one way
that an average citizen can get involved.”
The Film Office approves all submissions
before posting them on the Web site, and reserves the right to withhold
or correct any submissions. There is no guarantee that a submission
will be used.
If you have any questions, please call
(800) 477-3456, fax (517) 241-0867 or e-mail info@michigan.org.
Note: For information on how you
can sponsor content in the Blue Box, contact Jeff Lasser at (248) 455-7319
or
jeff.lasser@cbsradio.com
New Web
site for One D A Detroit organization hopes
to start a conversation. A conversation about how to improve and inspire
change in Detroit and its surrounding areas. And with the evolution
of the Web, these conversations can live in one place -- www.OneD.org.
One D is part of a regional, civic initiative that launched in November
2006 to support progress in Southeast Michigan. More.
Wayne State
nursing school gets $2 million
The Wayne State University
College of Nursing has been awarded over $2 million in the latest round
of grants related to initiatives aimed at alleviating the state’s
nursing shortage. This award will prepare faculty for Michigan Schools
of Nursing, helping to alleviate a bottleneck to preparing the necessary
number of nurses to meet the state’s need. More.
Oak
Park's Azure sells two more hybrid CitiBuses Oak Park-based Azure Dynamics
Corp., the developer of hybrid and electric drivetrains for medium-duty
trucks, announced that its hybrid shuttle buses will service student
and faculty needs at both the College of Staten Island and the University
of Fairfield in Connecticut. The two CitiBuses will be delivered in
late September for the fall semester. More.
THE WORLD
IN TECH
Oracle:
Justice Department OKs Sun deal Business software maker
Oracle Corp. said Thursday it has received the Justice Department's
approval to move forward with its $7.4 billion acquisition of former
dot-com-era star Sun Microsystems Inc. The deal still needs to get the
go-ahead from the European Commission. Clearance by the Justice Department
had been held up over questions about the licensing of Java, a programming
language that Sun invented that now runs on more than 7 billion electronic
devices around the world, including cell phones and personal computers.
More.
Feds
file age discrimination suit against AT&T The
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday it filed an age-discrimination
lawsuit against AT&T Inc., the country's largest telecommunications
provider. The EEOC says AT&T discriminated against older employees
by denying them the chance to be rehired solely because they retired
under early retirement plans. The effect of this denial, the agency
said, leads to a disproportionate number of older workers not having
the same opportunity to apply for re-employment with the company as
younger workers. This, the agency says, amounts to age discrimination.
More.
Accused
credit card hacker lived large in Miami Nestled near a row of sultry,
silvery-green palm trees and a 205-foot-long infinity pool, room 1508
at the National Hotel on South Beach is a portrait of Art Deco luxury.
It is also where, on May 7, 2008, federal agents seized two computers,
$22,000 in cash and a Glock 9 gun from a man known on the Internet as
"soupnazi." His real name is Albert Gonzalez, and he was with
his girlfriend when federal agents arrived. Just as the setting was
not run-of-the-mill, neither was the arrest. Gonzalez was charged with
hacking into business computer networks and stealing credit and debit
card accounts -- and in an embarrassing twist, he had once been an informant
for the U.S. Secret Service. This week, Gonzalez, 28, was indicted in
New Jersey on more federal charges. Now the biggest credit card hacks
of the decade -- totaling 170 million accounts -- have been pinned on
Gonzalez. Industry analysts marveled at the scope of the operation --
which Gonzalez allegedly dubbed "Get Rich or Die Tryin'."
One compared it to a hackers' version of the 1980s gangster movie "Scarface."
More.
A
back-to-school guide for college students It's
almost time for college students to head back to class. It's an exciting
time for both the students and those who want to see their loved ones
succeed. But doing it alone with no help from the Web doesn't make much
sense nowadays. Thus, this of resources for students to use when they
head back to college. Whether it's finding textbooks or getting help
with tough subjects, every student should use at least some of these
sites. More.
Stocks:
Shares advance on more signs of economic pickup More signs that the economy
is creeping toward recovery encouraged investors to move further into
stocks -- but at a cautious pace. Stocks rose moderately Thursday in
very light volume. There were no dramatic economic reports, but a smattering
of positive data convinced investors to take more chances on stocks.
Financials were particularly in demand after a report quoting American
International Group Inc.'s CEO as saying the company will repay its
bailout loans from the government. News from the Philadelphia Federal
Reserve of a pickup in mid-Atlantic manufacturing also lifted the market,
having offset a weaker-than-expected Labor Department report on first-time
claims for unemployment. More.
The Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP)
rose 19.98 points or 1 percent to 1,989.22. The Dow Jones Industrial
Average ($INDU)
rose 70.89 points or 0.8 percent, to 9,350.05. The Philadelphia Semiconductor
Index ($SOX)
rose 2.99 points or 1 percent to 296.41. The Morgan Stanley High Tech
35 Index (MSH)
rose 4.9 points or 1 percent to 496.92. The NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical
Index (DRG)
rose 0.61 points or 0.2 percent to 280.95. The NYSE Arca Biotech Index
(BTK)
rose 12.23 points or 1.4 percent to 872.18. Finally, the Standard &
Poor's 500 (SPX)
rose 10.91 points or 1.1 percent to 1,007.37.
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