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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 (Coverage: April 26 - May 10, 2005) |
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HEADLINES
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APR 26 - MAY 2, 2005
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: With SunRocket's service, you can hang up landline
* DNR Website: What does it have to offer
* Cohocta: Woman weaves life into Web
* Grand Rapids: Test zones set for wireless Internet
* Escanaba: Knowledge is Power
* Farmington Hills: Nextel approved to install new antennas
* Troy: Troy unplugged City aims to become pilot project in country wireless program
* Battle Creek: Parents find friend in technology
* Clawson: Clawson to seek wireless pilot program
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Gates' sights set on automobiles with his gizmos
* Canton: Canton police scrambling to deal with growing number of computer crimes
* Oakland: Going wireless
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: State's regulatory sights are set on Internet phone
* Huron County: Huron County part of Internet Study
MAY 3 - 9, 2005
* Pinckney: Artist weaves wares with high-tech tools
* Ottawa County: County may offer services online
* Garden City: Teachers score with $35,000 grant from HP
* Oxford: Teachers win tech grants
* Lakeland: HOT team smokes competition
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Devices prove handy in fighting crime
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APR 26, 2005
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: With SunRocket's service, you can hang up landline
I've replaced my landline telephone with a SunRocket. By doing so, I've slashed my monthly telephone bill from around $60 a month to less than $17 a month -- for unlimited calling throughout the United States and Canada.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland26e_20050426.htm
APR 26, 2005
* DNR Website: What does it have to offer
What doesn't it offer? Have you ever visited the Web site for Michigan's Department of Natural Resources? There is a seemingly endless amount of information available at your fingertips. I didn't know that Michigan has 97 state parks. The site is accessed at www.michigan.gov/dnr. There is a search box to help you quickly find any information you need.
Source: Tri-County Times, http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14416775&BRD=2524&PAG=461&dept_id=494488&rfi=8
APR 27, 2005
* Cohocta: Woman weaves life into Web
Shannon Chambers was tired of being in the rat race and needed to have a job where she could stay at home with her child, who is suffering from juvenile diabetes.
Source: Daily Press and Argus, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=100566
APR 27, 2005
* Grand Rapids: Test zones set for wireless Internet
Free "Wi-Fi" will be nearby for much of downtown Grand Rapids and a Northeast Side neighborhood June 1. Source: The Grand Rapids Press, http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-21/111461495218670.xml?grpress?NEG
APR 28, 2005
* Escanaba: Knowledge is Power
Move over report cards and phone calls home. Make room for PowerSchool. The $80,000 computer database program new to Escanaba Public Schools is causing a stir among parents eager to track student progress on the Web. A range of student statistics - including attendance - are updated by the hour in some cases. Source: Daily Press, http://www.dailypress.net/news/story/0428202005_new01-n0428.asp
APR 28, 2005
* Farmington Hills: Nextel approved to install new antennas
The days of cellular phone towers appears to be numbered as Nextel Communications is ready to launch a new antenna system in Farmington Hills to improve reception.
Source: Farmington Observer, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=100752
APR 28, 2005
* Troy: Troy unplugged City aims to become pilot project in country wireless program
When you can see the future, you might as well be a part of it. That's what Mayor Louise Schilling thinks anyway, and that's what spurred her and the Troy City Council to apply to be one of the pilot cities for the proposed Wireless Oakland project.
Source: Troy Eccentric, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=100951
APR 29, 2005
* Battle Creek: Parents find friend in technology
It's not unusual in many homes to find that children are far more technologically savvy than their parents. Most kids have grown up with the Internet, cell phones, text messaging and other high-tech tools that confuse or intimidate their parents.
Source: Battle Creek Enquirer, http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050429/OPINION01/504290314&SearchID=73206847553759
APR 29, 2005
* Clawson: Clawson to seek wireless pilot program
Clawson soon may have free high-speed wireless Internet service for all of its residents if it can land a spot as a pilot city for the Wireless Oakland project.
Source: Clawson Mirror, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=101046
APR 30, 2005
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Gates' sights set on automobiles with his gizmos
Bill Gates paid a visit to Detroit's auto industry Friday, hoping to convince manufacturers and suppliers that the Microsoft Corp. software which runs 90 percent of the world's computers can help cars and trucks be more convenient, safer, easier to maintain and fun to drive.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland30e_20050430.htm
MAY 1, 2005
* Canton: Canton police scrambling to deal with growing number of computer crimes
It's the purse-snatching of the 21st century, and if projections pan out, nearly everyone will either be, or know, someone who has been the victim of identity fraud.
Source: Canton Observer, http://www.hometownlife.com/HomeTownLife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=101477
MAY 1, 2005
* Oakland: Going wireless
Hoping to cash in on computer buffs, retailers have added wireless Internet access to keep patrons in the stores a little bit longer.
Source: The Oakland Press, http://theoaklandpress.com/stories/050105/bus_20050501001.shtml
MAY 2, 2005
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: State's regulatory sights are set on Internet phone
Michigan's Public Service Commission wants to have regulatory authority over the rapidly growing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that uses a broadband Internet connection to place and receive phone calls.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland2e_20050502.htm
MAY 2, 2005
* Huron County: Huron County part of Internet Study
Will broadband and wireless reinvigorate these rural areas, or will the technologies simply go unused and create an even wider gap between urban and rural America?
Source: Huron Daily Tribune, http://www.michigansthumb.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14452834&BRD=2292&PAG=461&dept_id=472759
MAY 3, 2005
* Pinckney: Artist weaves wares with high-tech tools
Pamela J. Arquette sits pensively at her pinewood floor loom, looking like something out of a musty Victorian-era painting. She lines up the fine, multicolored thread in the wooden harnesses - just before punching the pattern into her attached steely gray laptop computer.
Source: Daily Press and Argus, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=102134
MAY 4, 2005
* Ottawa County: County may offer services online
Ottawa County residents could soon be able to look up information on property they might be interested in buying, purchasing a copy of their birth certificate or even peek at whether their favorite restaurant is following county health codes -- all from the comfort of their homes.
Source: The Grand Rapids Press, http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1115219791310510.xml?grpress?NELK
MAY 5, 2005
* Garden City: Teachers score with $35,000 grant from HP
They may never become TV meteorologists, but students at the Burger Center for Students with Autism will learn more about the weather, thanks to a $35,000 grant.
Source: Garden City Observer, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=102362
MAY 4, 2005
* Oxford: Teachers win tech grants
Two elementary school teachers were surprised with giant checks Monday morning. No, they weren't Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes checks delivered by Ed McMahon.
Source: The Oxford Leader, http://www.clarkstonnews.com/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2005-05-04&-token.story=124470.112112&-token.subpub=
MAY 5, 2005
* Lakeland: HOT team smokes competition
Proving the saying that practice makes perfect, the Huron Valley HOT team finally earned the award they had been striving for and became world champions in the process.
Source: Milford Times, http://www.hometownlife.com/Hometownlife/NewsSearch.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=102734
MAY 9, 2005
* Detroit: MIKE WENDLAND: Devices prove handy in fighting crime
The Blackberry -- that high-tech communications tool so enamored by corporate types that they call it the Crackberry -- is now clipped to the hip of some Wayne County sheriff's deputies.
Source: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwendland9e_20050509.htm
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