Company officials ‘flip the switch’ on the last of three sites in the Bright Future solar system JACKSON, Mississippi – The day was overcast but the future was bright as officials with Entergy Mississippi, Inc., joined by employees, community and business leaders, and city, county and state representatives, dedicated the…
By Becky Gillette, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, May 5, 2016. Students from Mississippi State University (MSU) are working on some of the most important automotive engineering problems of today by participating in the national EcoCAR3 competition that challenges teams from 16 universities in North America to be the most efficient…
Special to the MBJ, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, May 5, 2016. In April 1966, Lyndon Johnson was president of the United States, protests of the Vietnam War were growing, gas was priced at 32 cents per gallon, (You’re My) Soul and Inspiration was the No. 1 song on the Billboard…
‘People Power Initiative’ to make state more competitive in growing and attracting industry' JACKSON, Mississippi– Entergy Mississippi, Inc. will make a multi-year investment of more than $1 million from shareholders to help prepare the state’s workforce and raise its competitive level to attract business and industry. The People Power…
New System Demonstrates Capabilities That Could Transform the Infrastructure Industry Starkville, Miss. - Today Camgian Microsystems announced the successful demonstration of an advanced information technology that supports radical improvements in the operation, maintenance and reliability of aging public infrastructure. The new Intelligent Decision Support (IDS) System, which was built through a contract with the…
Jackson’s Broadband Voice raised a toast to a 10-year partnership with the “the cloud” Tuesday and followed that by renaming itself Fuse.Cloud. The new brand more accurately portrays how the company has leveraged the Internet-based cloud’s capability to accommodate a growing list of voice, data storage and data transmission services,…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist, Mississippi Business Journal Feature, News, Technology, April 28, 2016. The standard ‘glass half-full or half-empty’ saying is commonly used to emphasize the difference between positive and negative thinking, or optimism and pessimism, respectively. Positive thinking is generally associated with the glass being half-full, and negative thinking with…
Today’s society will be remembered as the first wave of instant access culture. Need proof? There are ghosts of companies wandering the corporate graveyard, howling at the moon because they couldn’t keep up with our thirst for immediacy. “I went to Blockbuster” is now a primitive expression, akin to “Hand…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, April 28, 2016: In one of Innovate Mississippi’s training sessions, we ask this question to participants: “Which is more likely to be successful? An extraordinary idea with ordinary execution or extraordinary execution of an ordinary idea?” Since all we focus on at Innovate Mississippi…
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Beginning this fall, 34 public school districts will be participating in a yearlong pilot program called Computer Science for Mississippi. Beyond introducing state students to the CS profession, the training initiative is designed to equip them to be technologically literate citizens who are prepared for CS-related careers. Announcement of…