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HEADLINES
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MAR 16 - 22, 2005
* Alpena: Yes I Can
* Ann Arbor: IT Zone to honor high-tech efforts
* Cheboygan: Students on the move for health, prizes
* Hastings: City hires technology consultant
* Houghton: Nanotechnology program offered
* Lapeer: No 911 for Net Phone Users
* Greenville: Odyssey of the Mind Returns
* Royal Oak: HEATHER GRAHAM: PCs Poised to Run Car Entertainment * Royal Oak: BUZZ: New Service from Yahoo
* Royal Oak: MIKE WENDLAND: More discover messaging; access from phones grows
* Washington: MIKE WENDLAND: Relax, experts say :) Netspeak helps language
* Garden City: District uses e-mail to reach residents
* Warren: Warren Con launches podcast
* Lansing: Download revolution: Boundless choices, insatiable users could change the universe of music
MAR 23 - 28, 2005
* Traverse City: Taxpayers may surf Web for answers
* Brandon Township: Twp. library homework center scrutinized
* Grand Haven: Free wireless Internet available at Loutit
* Lakeview: Internet can blur the line between cheating and research for students
* Lansing: Around the Capitol
* Lansing: Michigan Travelers Benefit from Free Wi-Fi Access Through April
* Commerce Township: Learn about the buzz behind blogs
* Romeo: New facility, new programs, new opportunities
* Royal Oak: MIKE WENDLAND: Wi-Fi hotspots to grow, but when and who cares?
* Royal Oak: BUZZ: Research — Mouse help for PC
* Detroit: Schools buy tech, but much not in use
* Ypsilanti: Library approves Web filters |
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MAR 16, 2005
* Ann Arbor: IT Zone to honor high-tech efforts
With awards like "IndesTructible" and "IlluminaTion," the Ann Arbor IT Zone will honor both new and stalwart technology businesses during the group's first "Z Awards" on Tuesday.
Source: Ann Arbor News, http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/business-3/1111074118135300.xml?aanews?BUB
MAR 16, 2005
* Cheboygan: Students on the move for health, prizes
The hallways of Cheboygan Area Middle School are always busy with activity, but after this week students will find out if their movements around the building qualify them for prizes in a national competition.
Source: Cheboygan Daily Tribune, http://www.cheboygannews.com/articles/2005/03/16/news/news3.txt
MAR 16, 2005
* Houghton: Nanotechnology program offered
Next fall, Michigan Tech students will have a chance to think small. Very, very small. The university is launching a new minor in nanotechnology, letting students in virtually all majors explore one of the hottest fields in science and engineering.
Source: Daily Globe, http://www.ironwoodglobe.com/0316nano.htm
MAR 17, 2005
* Garden City: District uses e-mail to reach residents
The Garden City school district is turning to technology to better communicate with residents. The district is gathering the e-mail addresses of residents interested in receiving information from the district.
Source: Garden City Observer, http://www.hometownlife.com/HomeTownLife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=92058
MAR 17, 2005
* Greenville: Odyssey of the Mind Returns
Futuristic communication no longer is a thing of science fiction movies. A group of seven Greenville Middle Schoolers will demonstrate how people of the future will speak to one another in the years to come as part of their solution to a "Get The Message?" problem during Saturday's 27th annual Odyssey of the Mind competition at Greenville High School.
Source: The Daily News, http://www.thedailynews.cc/articles/2005/03/17/news/news03.txt
MAR 17, 2005
* Hastings: City hires tecnology consultant
The city will pay a technology consulting firm $11,000 to help it determine how to use less paper.
Source: The Grand Rapids Press, http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1111074334163550.xml?grpress?NEG
MAR 17, 2005
* Royal Oak: HEATHER GRAHAM: PCs Poised to Run Car Entertainment
For years, computer-makers have shown off PCs they hoped would become the digital information and entertainment hub of your home. Now, chip-maker Intel is showing off how a PC could become the nerve center of your car.
Source: The Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/newman17e_20050317.htm
MAR 17, 2005
* Royal Oak: BUZZ: New Service from Yahoo
Yahoo is preparing to introduce a new service that blends several of its Web site's popular features with two of the Internet's fastest growing activities -- blogging and social networking.
Source: The Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/techbuzz17e_20050317.htm
MAR 17, 2005
* Warren: Warren Con launches podcast
Warren Consolidated Schools communicates with its students, staff and parents through newsletters, its website and, now, its podcast.
Source: Sterling Heights Mirror, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=92411
MAR 18, 2005
* Alpena: Yes I Can
“I just love to talk with my mercury computer!” Amanda Frey told the crowd at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids during her acceptance speech.
Source: The Alpena News, http://www.thealpenanews.com/Archives/2005/march/18/local1.html
MAR 18, 2005
* Royal Oak: MIKE WENDLAND: More discover messaging; access from phones grows
Internet messaging is experiencing a sudden surge of popularity, with expanded services and features that are reaching demographic groups previously immune from the trend.
Source: The Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland18e_20050318.htm
MAR 20, 2005
* Lapeer: No 911 for Net Phone Users
If you're a subscriber to an Internet-based phone service, you might be surprised to find you can't call 911 in an emergency.
Source: The County Press, http://www.countypress.com/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2005-03-20&-token.story=119215.112112&-token.subpub
MAR 22, 2005
* Lansing: Download revolution: Boundless choices, insatiable users could change the universe of music
With infinite capacity and far-flung communication links, the Internet has opened a universe of options to music enthusiasts.
Source: Lansing State Journal, http://lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050322/NEWS03/503220322&SearchID=73203047446485
MAR 22, 2005
* Washington: Relax, experts say :) Netspeak helps language
Initial reaction may be to scream in disgust over this wave of Netspeak that's now so pervasive -- LOL. But experts are saying to relax..
Source: The Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/netspeak22e_20050322.htm
MAR 23, 2005
* Brandon Township: Twp. library homework center scrutinized
Two years ago the township library obtained a $45,000 federal grant to develop a Homework Center.
The LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) grant money was used to purchase 25 laptop wireless computers for kids to do homework on in the library.
Source: The Citizen, http://www.clarkstonnews.com/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2005-03-23&-token.story=119979.112112&-token.subpub
MAR 23, 2005
* Lakeview: Internet can blur the line between cheating and research for students
In today's world temptations are everywhere, and one that many high school students succumb to is plagiarizing. For major reports, such as research papers, many students turn to Internet sources instead of old-fashioned research in a library using books and hard copy.
Source: The Macomb Daily, http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/032305/loc_plagiarism001.shtml
MAR 23, 2005
* Lansing: Around the Capitol
High school and college students may be able to make a little cash and gain a lot of future career experience with the help of a new Web site.
Source: The News-Herald, http://thenewsherald.com/stories/032305/loc_20050323021.shtml
MAR 24, 2005
* Traverse City: Taxpayers may surf Web for answers
The state treasury department is offering a Web site to assist taxpayers with preparing and monitoring their state income tax returns.
Source: Traverse City Record Eagle, http://www.record-eagle.com/2005/mar/24briefs.htm
MAR 24, 2005
* Commerce Township: Learn about the buzz behind blogs
Tech Savvy - I have become a blog junkie. In case you're unfamiliar with the term, "blog" derives from "Web log," which itself is just a fancy way of saying "online diary."
Source: Observer & Eccentric, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=93199
MAR 24, 2005
* Romeo: New facility, new programs, new opportunities
The Romeo Engineering and Technology Center was designed to give students in Romeo Community Schools the most advanced career and technical education programs in the county.
Source: The Macomb Daily, http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/032405/loc_career001.shtml
MAR 25, 2005
* Grand Haven: Free wireless Internet available at Loutit
The Loutit District Library, 407 Columbus Avenue, Grand Haven, has announced that free wireless 802.11b and 802.11g compatible Internet access is now available at the library. Patrons can now connect to the Internet in the library using their personal computing devices.
Source: The Grand Haven Tribune, http://www.grandhaventribune.com/paid/329956394694971.bsp
MAR 25, 2005
* Lansing: Michigan Travelers Benefit from Free Wi-Fi Access Through April
The State of Michigan and SBC Communications, Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced the MiWiFi, powered by SBC FreedomLink Wi-Fi service, will be available at no charge to all Michigan travelers until April 30. MiWiFi service is available at New Buffalo Welcome Center, Coldwater Welcome Center, Grand Haven State Park, Clarkston Rest Area, Holland State Park, Mackinac Island State Dock and Ludington State Park.
Source: SBC.com, http://www.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=21628
MAR 25, 2005
* Ypsilanti: Library approves Web filters
Internet filters activated by a user's library card will be used to prevent children from accessing pornographic or other adult-oriented sites on the Internet from Ypsilanti District Library computers
Source: The Ann Arbor News, http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1111765244102730.xml?aanews?NEA
MAR 28, 2005
* Royal Oak: MIKE WENDLAND: Wi-Fi hotspots to grow, but when and who cares?
There's a rush to Wi-Fi the world. In fact, Wi-Fi -- that wireless way to use low-powered radio signals to connect computers to the Internet -- has to be the most hyped technology development of the year.
Source: The Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland28e_20050328.htm MAR 28, 2005
* Royal Oak: BUZZ: Research — Mouse help for PC
Many years ago, IBM researcher James Levine watched an elderly uncle try to manipulate a mouse as he used a personal computer.
Source: The Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/techbuzz28e_20050328.htm
MAR 28, 2005
* Detroit: Schools buy tech, but much not in use
Nearly five years after the Detroit Public Schools contracted for three software programs to improve student performance and revolutionize record-keeping for teachers, millions have been spent and two of the programs are not being used.
Source: The Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/news/education/dps28e_20050328.htm
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