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Protecting teens’ online privacy is the goal of a new public education campaign launched today by Attorney General Jim Hood in cooperation with Facebook. “As parents, we address issues of trust, accountability and respect with our children concerning their direct interactions with others and we should treat online conversations the same,” said Attorney General Hood. [...] [...]
Orange can either be the color of a sunrise or a sunset, depending on the direction you are facing. After a decade in business, orange is still the corporate color at Ridgeland remote support tech company Bomgar Inc., from its office walls to the golf shirts and ties worn by founder and CEO Joel Bomgar. [...] [...]
Frank Owen is a professional observer and a self-described closet anthropologist who’s “fascinated by cultures.” He has a background in psychology, training in counseling and experience in museum design and web content strategy. He joined Mad Genius as a copywriter and audience researcher in 2007, a time shortly after social media was beginning to take [...] [...]
Remember the Luddites? I must be one of them because I’m surely the last person in America above the age of 10 who doesn’t have a smart phone. Well, that’s not exactly true. I have one of those phones but it’s still in the box it came in two months ago. You see, I’m afraid [...] [...]
Dr. Vernon Asper, a researcher and professor in the Department of Marine Science at the University of Southern Mississippi, has taken 19 trips since 1990 to the Antarctica to do research on underwater particle dynamics using high-tech remotely operated vehicles to gather information. During his most recent trip in November, Asper deployed an ingenious underwater [...] [...]
by Ross Reily Published: November 6,2012
Tags: Ambassador John N. Palmer, Bill Yates, Curiosity rover, Dr. Robert C. Khayat, Fred Haise, Innovators Hall of Fame, Jeff Good, Jim Barksdale, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Technology Alliance, NASA, The Yates Companies Inc
The Mississippi Technology Alliance (MTA) will host the Mississippi Innovators Hall of Fame Awards Gala, Nov. 13. The 13th Annual Conference on Technology Innovation, hosted by MTA, will be held Nov. 14. Both events will be held at the Jackson Convention Complex. The Mississippi Innovators Hall of Fame was established in 2008 as a tribute [...] [...]
STARKVILLE — The closure of a Mississippi semiconductor firm will cost a California company $60 million. Power Integrations of San Jose, Calif., says it will write off its 2010 investment in SemiSouth, a Starkville, firm that’s closing. SemiSouth’s 90 employees will be laid off. SemiSouth, which makes silicon carbide semiconductors, announced its closure last week. [...] [...]
Twitter, the popular micro-blog and short message service (SMS), has become an important marketing tool for companies and their advertising agencies eager to promote different products and services to the public. While celebrity athletes and movie stars still get the most followers, corporate giants like Best Buy, Target and Apple also enjoy a healthy Twitter [...] [...]
Wireless technology is getting faster for many Mississippians with the launching of the latest generation of wireless network technology by the area’s largest cellular providers. With the fourth generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) services introduced in the Jackson area by C Spire Wireless and AT&T, customers will experience the speed and advanced capabilities offered [...] [...]
There are exciting things happening with the Urban Research Group at the University of Southern Mississippi. The group is led by professor Marek W. Urban, Ph.D., of the university’s nationally known School of Polymer Science. Inspired by his dream of a technology that’s now considered revolutionary in the world of plastics research, the professor has [...] [...]
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