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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 (Coverage: March 29 - April 11, 2005) |
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HEADLINES
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MAR 29 - APR 4, 2005
* Detroit: MATT HELMS: Self-serve for license tabs
* Grand Rapids: Post Office warns about Internet Scam
* Royal Oak: Royal Oak wired about Internet access
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Apple, Microsoft prepare for war with new systems
* Livonia: Nonprofit volunteers share gift of technology with those in need
* Milford: Milford pilot for wireless
* Milford: Wireless wannabe
* Eastern Upper Peninsula: New technology brings back old problem for 911
APR 5 - 11, 2005
* Warren: Lawrence Tech looks to keep engineers in Michigan
* Clinton Township: Geocaching in
* Chippewa Valley: Learning for the new age
* Manton: The virtual classroom alternative
* Royal Oak: Courts start online fine program
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Internet phone service looks like next big thing
* Dowagiac: Borgess-Lee Memorial logs on to telemedicine future
* Plymouth-Canton: Technology, money top incumbent's list
* Fenton: New services offered by GDL
UPCOMING EVENTS
* Lansing: Advanced Information Infrastructure - Monday, April 18
Advance information and communication networks and services, both wireline and wireless, form an infrastructure that is critical to the prosperity of communities, states, and nations.
Source: Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law, http://quello.msu.edu/events/adinfra/program.pdf
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* Federal Computer Week
* Government Computer News
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* New York Times: Technology
* Washtech.com (Washington Post)
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MAR 30, 2005
* Detroit: MATT HELMS: Self-serve for license tabs
Renewing your license plates is getting easier. Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land unveiled an ATM-style service Tuesday for drivers in good standing to renew their license plate tabs.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/news/driving/kiosk30e_20050330.htm
MAR 31, 2005
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Apple, Microsoft prepare for war with new systems
After years of relative quiet, both Microsoft and Apple are frenetically working on major new upgrades to the base software that run the personal computers of tens of millions of business and consumer users.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland31e_20050331.htm
MAR 31, 2005
* Milford: Milford pilot for wireless
Oakland County is seeking pilot communities for its wireless Internet initiative. It makes sense Milford is one of those communities involved in the program. Township officials are applying for the pilot program, touting Milford's beneficial qualities.
Source: Milford Times, http://www.hometownlife.com/HomeTownLife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=94343
MAR 31, 2005
* Milford: Wireless wannabee
A proposed effort to blanket all of Oakland County's businesses and residences with free wireless Internet access by 2006 has Milford officials ogling an opportunity for Milford to become one of five pilot communities selected this year for the program.
Source: Milford Times, http://www.hometownlife.com/HomeTownLife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=94349
MAR 31, 2005
* Eastern Upper Peninsula: New technology brings back old problem for 911
New technology threatens to bring old problems back to local residents as Voice Over Internet Phone service (VOIP) may be unable to connect residents with their local central dispatch systems in times of emergency.
Source: SooEveningNews, http://www.sooeveningnews.com/articles/2005/03/31/news/news582.txt
APR 1, 2005
* Royal Oak: Royal Oak wired about Internet access
Free high-speed Internet access will come to every home, business and outdoor space in the city this fall if Royal Oak is chosen as a pilot community for the Wireless Oakland program.
Source: Daily Tribune, http://www.dailytribune.com/stories/040105/loc_20050401014.shtml
APR 3, 2005
* Livonia: Nonprofit volunteers share gift of technology with those in need
Mildred Scott, a resident of Livonia's McNamara Center, plans to get a lot of use out of the new computer lab being installed in her apartment building.
Source: Livonia Observer, http://www.hometownlife.com/HomeTownLife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=95040
April 4, 2005
* Grand Rapids: Post Office warns about Internet Scam
A fraud scheme speeding across the Internet may cost Michigan residents time, money and a not-so-pleasant chat with bank and law enforcement officials for passing counterfeit postal money orders. A number of residents in Michigan cities have reported receiving the bogus postal money orders.
Source: Courier Leader, http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14279579&BRD=2188&PAG=461&dept_id=414962&rfi=8
April 6, 2005
* Warren: Lawrence Tech looks to keep engineers in Michigan
For most engineering and technology students, algebra, calculus and trigonometry are the easy part. Funding four-years of higher education may not be as simple. Students at Lawrence Technological University will be among the first to take advantage of a new zero percent loan program, recently announced by Gov. Jennifer Granholm and set to begin this August.
Source: C&G News, http://www.candgnews.com/editorial/2005/april/6/sun/ltu_jsm.html
April 6, 2005
* Clinton Township: Geocaching in
As technology improves, so do recreational opportunities. Outdoorsy folks, particularly hunters and fishermen, already use Global Positioning Satellite receivers for their activities, but for about five years now, people around the world have found a new use for the cell-phone-size navigational devices: geocaching.
Source: C&G News, http://www.candgnews.com/editorial/2005/april/6/fraser/geocaching_dmw.html
April 6, 2005
* Chippewa Valley: Learning for the new age
By combining state-of-the-art technology and a willingness to learn, Chippewa Valley High School has developed one of the few Information Technology programs in the Midwest.
Source: Macomb Daily News, http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/040705/loc_learning001.shtml
April 6, 2005
* Fenton: New services offered by GDL
Genesee District Library (which includes the Jack R. Winegarden Library in Fenton and the Linden Library) is initiating two new services that open the door for GDL patrons to access books and information from an even wider and richer pool using new technology.
Source: Tri-County Times, http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14293283&BRD=2524&PAG=461&dept_id=494488&rfi=8
April 8, 2005
* Manton: The virtual classroom alternative
Instead of walking into a classroom and waiting for a teacher to begin class, some area students log in to a computer.
Source: Cadillac News, http://www.cadillacnews.com/articles/2005/04/08/news/news01.txt
April 8, 2005
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Internet phone service looks like next big thing
If there's any one tech trend that's marked this year so far, it has to be the use of the Internet to make and receive telephone calls. Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP (pronounced VOIP), is growing so fast that it's almost overwhelming. In fact, I think it's a safe bet to predict it's how a great many of us will soon be making most of our telephone calls from home -- and maybe work, too.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland8e_20050408.htm
APR 8, 2005
* Dowagiac: Borgess-Lee Memorial logs on to telemedicine future
The same videoconferencing technology which delivers doctors their MTV entertained Dowagiac Rotarians, who watched themselves on "television" Thursday noon at Elks Lodge 889. In this case MTV means medical television, not music.
Source: Leader Publications, http://www.leaderpub.com/articles/2005/04/08/news/dowagiac_news/dnnews1.txt
APR 10, 2005
* Plymouth-Canton: Technology, money top incumbent's list
Tom Wysocki would like to see the Plymouth-Canton school district expand the use of technology for students, parents and educators.
Source: Canton Observer, http://www.hometownlife.com/HomeTownLife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=96177
April 11, 2005
* Royal Oak: Courts start online fine program
Click it, pay ticket. The district courts in Royal Oak, Ferndale and Oak Park have signed up to accept on-line payments for traffic citations, fines and fees.
Source: Daily Tribune, http://www.dailytribune.com/stories/041105/loc_onlinefines10001.shtml
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