Michigan Mobile Musings

As a statewide trade association working with industries and technologies impacting our nation and the world at-large, over the years the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM) has formed a number of relationships with national and international associations that help us better service the needs of Michigan, and help us have influence on a national […]

Michigan is the global center for the automotive industry, and is now tasked with positioning itself as the center for Advanced Mobility and Connected Vehicle Technology, and nowhere is this more evident than at today’s MICHauto Summit 2015. Over 400 participants gathered at Cobo in Detroit to interact on the challenge to promote, grow and […]

A surprise to many in Michigan, and across the globe, is that the State of Michigan is becoming a ‘go to’ place for those engaged in providing or utilizing mobile/wireless technologies – in any industry. The state is experiencing tremendous increases in the utilization of these technologies across many industries, including: automotive and other transportati […]

Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM) and Medical Main Street offer a forum for healthcare leaders from across Michigan to share their ‘wish list’ and mHealth projected forecasts with the mobile/wireless technologies community According to Deloitte Research experts quoted in Forbes, “Mobile health, or mHealth as its commonly known, is emerging as […]

Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM) has launched a weekly podcast to explore all things mobile/wireless-related taking place in Michigan and to promote them internationally DETROIT, MI – The Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM) has recently launched a weekly audio broadcast, Michigan Mobile Musings (http://BlogTalkRadio.com/MTAM), hosted on […]

Many articles have been appearing lately discussing the lack of women available to fill positions utilizing mobile/wireless technologies – in every industry and at every level, as well as the possible reasons for lack of women choosing to go this direction. Given the large number of openings and tremendous shortage of skilled people to fill these […] […]

Are you a Michigan-based firm that is utilizing mobile/wireless technologies in some way within your firm, and exhibiting at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January? If so, we’d like to speak with you. As the first state-focused mobile/wireless technologies trade association in the U.S., the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM) pr […]

This headline is terrifying to me!  It stems from a situation at Rochester Adams High School involving 31 students – all 16 or younger – where several teens took pictures of a female teen – also under 16 – engaged in a sexual act; the photos were taken without her knowledge. That was bad enough […]

It seems like everywhere you go these days people are talking about connectivity; connected cars, smart homes, smart watches, etc. But what is not clear in all these conversations is what it all means – for our futures, for jobs, for our communities, etc. First, it might be helpful to understand that many different terms are […]

by Linda Daichendt, Executive Director, Mobile Technology Assn of Michigan, Co-founder, Mobile Monday Michigan Recently I read an article that discussed a skills program that had quickly been ramped up by a local community college to meet a training demand defined by a local non-profit group whose focus is on the fashion industry. The jobs […]