For the past 4 years my wife has spoiled me on my birthday with wonderful vacations to Napa Valley, Toronto, Boston, and Seattle.  This year however would be different since we have an upcoming wedding to attend in Aruba.  So I had not had high hopes for my birthday this year especially after coming off a big 30th surprise last year.  I was proven wrong.

I had asked for the Sennheiser RS130 wireless headphones and a few clothes but was surprised to open the Slingbox Pro from Sling Media.  I've known about the Slingbox for well over a year now and we even have them in our retail store at Core3 but I hadn't actually got to play with one yet.  Can I just say WOW!?!

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Once upon a time, Detroit Wheel and Tire did most of its e-commerce business on eBay. It was a practice that cost the firm about $20,000 a month in fees until Core3 Solutions made them go away.

The web-design firm outfitted Detroit Wheel and Tire with its own web site from top to bottom, getting eBay out of its pockets. Just another day of saving their clients money for the Birmingham-based firm.

"Everything we do is custom," says Curtis Hays, director of business development for Core3 Solutions. "If a customer comes to us with a need, we will fulfill that need."

Core3 Solutions can do that because it handles all of its work in-house. That philosophy has allowed the 11-year-old company to grow to 12 people, including six hires in the last two years. It's aiming to round out its employee count to between 15 and 20 people by the end of 2009.

To accomplish that Core3 is striking out into other computer-based areas, such as handling IT needs for small businesses. It also recently opened up a retail store in the ground floor of its offices in Birmingham's emerging Triangle District. Core3 Solutions hopes to open another office soon in a nearby metro area, like Grand Rapids, Toledo or Chicago.

"We're pretty much already covering all of Metro Detroit," Hays says.

Source: Curtis Hays, director of business development for Core3 Solutions
Writer: Jon Zemke, Metro Mode

While a lot of companies in Michigan are cutting staff and downsizing, we're very happy to announce that during these tough times, we've been able to hire new staff and continue to grow and develop our team.

Core3 Solutions is proud to welcome Katie Miller as our new Dispatch Technician. Katie's organization and communication skills will help keep the computer services team focused and driven. The web development crew is excited to bring Will Rush on board as a Programmer. Will's years of experience and thirst for knowledge will surely bring great value to the web development side of our business. Finally, Curtis Hays has been appointed Director of Business Development to lead the charge in keeping our current customers up to date and helping new customers find the company they have been looking for.

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Dell completed a study this June to understand how airports in the United States are handling lost or stolen laptops.  The study was astonishing.  Not only did they find that most airports do not have a plan to deal with, or track, missing, lost, or stolen laptops within their terminals and other areas, but the frequency of these occurrences is mind boggling.  Of 106 airports studied, the average loss of laptops per airport per week is 286.  Across all airports the total is 10,278 per week.  That's an average of 13 laptops stolen or lost per day per airport.