Tony Jeff (Photo: Special to The Clarion-Ledger) In last week’s article, I shared some of the history and development of crowdsourcing and many of the ways people today are outsourcing products or services from strangers through the Internet. While many of these situations involve people getting paid for these…
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Registration is still open for an upcoming energy storage symposium, and Mississippi State officials are encouraging a variety of participants to register. Organizers of the major Aug. 12-13 event hope to draw other academic researchers and energy industry leaders, along with many others who might play a role in…
Posted by: Ross Reily in Columns, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, OPINION, Technology July 30, 2015 When we hear the word contagious, we often think in terms of a disease and how quickly it may spread among the population and whether it could eventually reach epidemic proportions. The spread of any disease is not a desired outcome, but…
Jackson Clarion Ledger, July 30, 2015; by Tony Jeff, President & CEO, Innovate Mississippi Launched out of one of Innovate Mississippi's Startup Weekends, GeeksNGigs takes the unique angle of utilizing college workers to fulfill small jobs. I wonder what our parents or grandparents would have thought about the notion of…
Newly formed cloud services sales team to focus on $23 Million Tier III+ Data Center that solidifies C Spire’s position as a world-class diversified technology leader RIDGELAND, MS, July 29, 2015 – C Spire Business Solutions has developed an enterprise sales team focused solely on cloud-based services optimized to provide…
More speed, more power and more coverage help deliver better mobile experience for customers Ridgeland, Miss. - (July 21, 2015) – C Spire, whose wireless unit is one of the nation’s leading mobile service providers, announced today that it has doubled the bandwidth and power throughout much of its…
Ready. Aim. Fire. These words weren’t chosen by accident to describe the process of acquiring and attacking a target. There is an order to creating success. When one goes out of order, it’s normally to get to the firing portion as quickly as possible. In general parlance, we call this…
JACKSON, Miss. –Entergy Mississippi customers, who already pay among the lowest rates in the nation, will see those rates drop further this summer. The typical residential customer using 1,000 kWh per month will pay approximately $1.77 less beginning in July. Currently, residential customers pay $110.02 per 1,000 kWh per month. This is…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist in Columns, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, Technology June 26, 2015 In my last column I talked about the culture of giving in Mississippi, which we know cuts across race and religion. Our citizens are among the most charitable in the country. Similarly, we need to work on embedding a culture of innovation…
Posted by: Associated Press in NEWS, Technology June 11, 2015 GULFPORT — Gov. Phil Bryant is pledging $15 million for development of a broadband corridor along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Multiple news sources report Bryant made the announcement this week at a meeting of business and community leaders in Gulfport. Bryant says the money…