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…
New Corporate Identity Reflects Decade of Company Growth and Extended Product Offering JACKSON, Miss – April 26, 2016 – Broadband Voice, the longest-standing provider of hosted voice over IP solutions in the state of Mississippi, announced today that it is changing its name to Fuse.Cloud (pronounced fuse dot cloud). Since…
(Ridgeland, Miss.) – Innovate Mississippi announces that the next Startup Weekend will be held April 29 – May 1 at the Coalesce Cooperative Working Environment located in Downtown Jackson. Innovate Mississippi has partnered with Coalesce to host its fifth Startup Weekend Jackson event. Powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, Startup Weekends…