Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, August 26, 2015 To continue our conversation from the last two weeks on the “Internet of Things,” which is simply a description of the network of real-time connected devices all around us, you’ll remember I’ve addressed the lack of break-through or “killer” apps in…
(Ridgeland, Miss.) – Innovate Mississippi announces the election of Richard A. Sun, founder and owner of Sun & Co., as chairman of the Innovate Mississippi Board of Directors. Sun, of Jackson, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and a Masters of Business Administration from New York University.…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist in Columns, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, OPINION August 13, 2015 There seems to be a debate in many cities, in our own state and across the country. Do we invest in small businesses, which employ lots of people as a group but are individually volatile and have lower economic impacts? Or do…
JACKSON: The third #eTech Conference will be held Tuesday, August 25, at the Clyde Muse Center of Hinds Community College, Rankin Campus in Pearl. CEO & Founder, Matt Frazier, with Beakn Mobile will deliver the keynote speech about beacon technology and how it can be used for retailers to provide…
Tony Jeff (as featured in the Clarion Ledger) You’ve probably heard in the news recently about hackers who managed to seize control of a Jeep Cherokee’s on-board system, causing the vehicle to crash in a ditch. The hackers accomplished this from only a few miles away while sitting on a…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist in Columns, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, OPINION, Small Business August 13, 2015 Ok, I know the age old saying is “a piece of cake,” but I contend that my way of stating the complexity of a task completed will revolutionize the world of food-based analogies and gives us a much more intuitive way of…
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…