Ann Arbor
rehab cuts energy use by five times from 'regular' house The
house on North Holmes Street in Ann Arbor doesn't look all that different
from its neighbors. In fact, the low-slung one-story rancher would look
at home in virtually any postwar neighborhood, from the 1950s through
the 1990s. It has just over 2,000 square feet, three bedrooms, two bathrooms
and a partial basement. But everything from its siding to its insulation
to its mechanical systems to its architectural layout is state-of-the-art
green. Here's
the story, and here's
video from the home shot Friday.
Ann
Arbor, Washtenaw County create tech firm microloan fund Ann Arbor Spark and Washtenaw
County have collaborated to create a $225,000 Eastern Washtenaw Micro
Loan Fund. The Eastern Washtenaw Micro Loan Fund will support innovative,
high-growth start-up companies throughout eastern Washtenaw County as
they near commercial viability. More.
iRobot
plans growth in Michigan Expect the Troy office of
Bedford, Mass.-based iRobot Corp. to grow. The robot maker -- best known
in pop culture for its Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, but which also
builds deadly serious military robots -- plans to use the Troy office
and the United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and
Engineering Center as the basis for a new engineering center. More.
Arts, Beats
and Eats festival offers incentives on social sites The Arts, Beats & Eats
festival in Pontiac this Labor Day weekend is offering its fans special
incentives to follow the festival on Twitter and announce their friendship
of the festival by becoming a fan on Facebook. For example, the first
2,500 Facebook fans will receive free parking at the Pontiac Silverdome
with free shuttle for the short trip to and from the festival. More.
Troy's
Ilumisys licenses patents to LED manufacturer
Ilumisys Inc., the Troy developer and producer of next generation solid
state lighting technology, has granted a license for its light-emitting
diode fluorescent tube replacement patents to Light Emitting Designs
of North Barrington, Ill. The agreement provides for payments to be
made on a per-unit basis in exchange for having rights to manufacture
and sell products covered by the patents. More.
The Week Ahead: Holiday doldrums precede 'back to school'
It feels like Monday ought to be Labor Day, but it
isn't. Instead, Labor Day is as late as it possibly can be this year,
so we have two more weeks of lazy dog days before that psychological
"back to school" milepost in the year that at least for me
lingers even on into adulthood,.
Labor Day. Time to get back
at it, get serious, start a new "work year." But for the next
two weeks, the Great Lakes IT Report's Michigan
IT Calendar, the state's most comprehensive tech event calendar,
is just a bit thin.
Not that there isn't good
stuff. Those Michigan wind energy commission panels today in Bad Axe
and a week from Monday in Scottville look really interesting. And Comcast
is offering us a social media seminar Tuesday, the same day Ben &
Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield is to speak at Lawrence Technological
University in Southfield, and Detroit EcoTuesday is to hear from Ford
Motor's green car boss.
So we'll see you out there
-- maybe at the beach, until we all get back to the real world on Tuesday,
Sept. 8.
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ProQuest
beefs up databases Ann Arbor-based ProQuest
announced several additions to its online databases Friday. First, its
Periodicals Archive Online now offers three more ways to build a library’s
research archive, with the addition of The Spectator to Collection 7,
the launch of Collection 8 and the development of five additional years
of coverage for journals in Collections 1 to 5. There's also new content
from the Paley media archives and more historical academic dissertations
from the United Kingdom. More.
MMTC launches
Explorer Webinar series
The Plymouth-based Michigan
Manufacturing Technology Center, the Michigan affiliate of Manufacturing
Extension Partnership of the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
announces the launch of its new Explorer Webinar Series. The no-fee
series will launch on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 2 p.m. More.
Chemistry
building addition is MSU's first LEED project The Chemistry Building might
conjure images of white lab coats, glass beakers and stainless steel
laboratory equipment, but for Lynda Boomer, MSU’s energy and environmental
engineer, the new Chemistry Building addition represents another way
to reach MSU’s environmental goals. The addition has earned the
U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design silver certification, the first LEED-certified project on campus.
More.
THE WORLD
IN TECH
Online radio
service wins ruling over license fees Personalized Internet radio
stations got a boost Friday when a federal appeals court ruled that
Yahoo's LAUNCHcast music service was not interactive enough to be forced
to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing fees. The 2nd U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said LAUNCHcast did not offer
its users so much control over selecting songs for personalized Internet
radio stations that the users would choose those Webcasts over buying
music. LAUNCHcast enabled users to create stations that played songs
based on how the user rated songs, artists and albums. More.
Will
antitrust probe keep Microsoft, Yahoo apart? Yahoo
Inc. and Microsoft Corp. hope that by joining forces, they can tilt
the balance of power in Internet search away from Google Inc. First,
however, Yahoo and Microsoft have to convince regulators that their
plan won't hurt online advertisers and consumers. As the U.S. Justice
Department reviews the proposed partnership, approval figures to hinge
on this question: Will the online ad market be healthier if Google's
dominance is challenged by a single, more muscular rival instead of
two scrawnier foes? The first step toward getting an answer came this
month when Microsoft and Yahoo filed paperwork with federal regulators
to comply with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, an antitrust law governing
mergers and alliances between competitors. The Justice Department has
until early September to approve the agreement or -- as is likely in
this case -- request additional information. More.
Apple
denies 'rejecting' Google Voice for iPhone Apple Inc. told federal
regulators Friday that it blocked the Google Voice program from running
on the iPhone because it alters important functions on the device --
yet Apple denied that it has rejected Google's application outright.
"Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google
Voice application, and continues to study it," Apple said in a
letter to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is looking
into Apple's block on the Google Voice app as part of a bigger examination
of the consumer implications of practices in the wireless industry.
It sent questions to Apple, Google and Dallas-based AT&T Inc., the
only wireless carrier to offer the iPhone in the U.S. More.
Microsoft,
Yahoo, Amazon to fight Google book deal The
fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital
rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting to resemble a heavyweight
brawl in the library. Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
are joining a coalition that hopes to rally opposition to Google's digital
book ambitions and ultimately persuade a federal judge to block or revise
the Internet search leader's plans. The group, to be called the Open
Book Alliance, is being put together by the Internet Archive, a longtime
critic of Google's crusade to make digital copies of as many printed
books as possible. A growing number of critics already have filed objections
to Google's book settlement, but none have the clout that the Open Book
Alliance figures to wield with three of the world's best-known technology
companies on board.More.
Stocks:
Shares jump as Bernanke says economy near recovery Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke said what investors wanted to hear, that the economy is
indeed on the verge of recovery, and they responded with a rally that
sent the major indexes to new highs for the year. The Dow Jones industrials
shot up 155 points Friday, closing above 9,500 for the first time since
Nov. 4, and all the big indexes finished with gains of more than 1.5
percent. Meanwhile, Treasury prices tumbled, pushing yields sharply
higher, as investors no longer felt they needed the safety of government
debt. The stock market's gains were broad, reaching across all industries,
but the biggest jumps came from energy, industrial and material stocks
as oil and commodities prices soared. Bank stocks also rose sharply.
Just nine days after the Fed declared the economy to be "leveling
out" rather than contracting, Bernanke went further, saying, "the
prospects for a return to growth in the near term appear good."
More.
The Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP)
rose 31.68 points or 1.6 percent to 2,020.9. The Dow Jones Industrial
Average ($INDU)
rose 155.91 points or 1.7 percent, to 9,505.96. The Philadelphia Semiconductor
Index ($SOX)
rose 4.89 points or 1.7 percent to 301.3. The Morgan Stanley High Tech
35 Index (MSH)
rose 8.54 points or 1.7 percent to 505.46. The NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical
Index (DRG)
rose 4.06 points or 1.5 percent to 285.01. The NYSE Arca Biotech Index
(BTK)
rose 7 points or 0.8 percent to 879.18. Finally, the Standard & Poor's
500 (SPX)
rose 18.76 points or 1.9 percent to 1,026.13.
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The
house on North Holmes Street in Ann Arbor doesn't look all that different
from its neighbors. In fact, the low-slung one-story rancher would look
at home in virtually any postwar neighborhood, from the 1950s through
the 1990s. It has just over 2,000 square feet, three bedrooms, two bathrooms
and a partial basement. But everything from its siding to its insulation
to its mechanical systems to its architectural layout is state-of-the-art
green. 
The Week Ahead: Holiday doldrums precede 'back to school'
