http://www.mitechnews.com Mitech News New Products/Contracts http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12106 GRAND RAPIDS - Grand Rapids-based US Signal announced that it is significantly expanding its long-haul fiber network in Southern and Central Illinois., St. Louis, Mo. and Southern Indiana. The expansion includes central offices in seven cities. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12103 AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems, provider of the No. 1 rated manufacturing ERP software, announced Tuesday its sponsorship at the Precision Metalforming Association's Educational Foundation Roundtable focusing on the trends and issues in the information technology industry on September 9 in Cleveland. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12098 GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group will host a free workshop for business owners and IT decision makers that want to learn how to automate and reduce their technology burden. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12078 FLINT - Julianne Princinsky, president of Baker College of Flint, has won the 2010 Distinguished Leadership Award from the Leadership Michigan program created by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12075 ANN ARBOR - Osiris Innovations Group, an e-business solutions provider and expert in supply chain management and supplier enablement, has partnered with Online Tech to exclusively host their Software as a Service offerings. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12054 SAN FRANCSICO - There was something very much in the vein of Utopian science-fiction fantasies to Facebook's announcement of "Places," its location-based "check-in" product that it launched on Wednesday night. In short, Facebook not only wants to be the digital sovereignty toward which all other geolocation apps direct their figurative roads, it also wants to be the Web's own omniscient historian. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12051 AUBURN HILLS - Plex Systems announced its sponsorship at the Precision Metalforming Association's inaugural Marketing and Sales conference, August 26-27 in Chicago. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12036 STERLING HEIGHTS - Donna Zobel, president and CEO of Myron Zucker, has been appointed to the 2010 U.S. Manufacturing Council by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12034 TROY - Dynamic Advisory Solutions will open its second office in Ann Arbor with Rob Marshall serving as managing director. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=12016 LANSING - After sharing the top spot last quarter in the 'How Social Is Your State DMO?' study, Michigan has pulled away with the No. 1 ranking for the period April through June 2010.