This is a specific focus of a weekly MBJ edition.
by Lynn Lofton Published: January 13,2011
Tags: Dave Miller, Ken Tallon, MBJ Focus, Mike Barger
Wireless phones doing everything these days There seems to be no part of life where communication technology does not hold sway. Is there anything the ubiquitous wireless phone can not do? Or anywhere it can not go? And of course you don’t have to use them to actually speak to people — that’s so old [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: November 14,2010
Tags: 3-D video, Matthew Graves, Ole Miss
Ole Miss-produced video billed by school as first 3-D film to hit the JumboTron Oxford filmmaker Matthew Graves grew up in Seminole, Texas, (population 700) and has wanted to make films ever since he saw Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.: The Extraterrestrial” as a child. He earned a B.A. in broadcast journalism from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: November 14,2010
Tags: Facebook, Randy Lynn
Social media is here to stay You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” So boasts the smug tagline for “The Social Network,” a new film chronicling the rise of Facebook, the Internet’s largest social media network. Directed by Academy Award nominee David Fincher and starring Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: November 14,2010
Tags: CIT.ms, Google, Kirby Boteler, Parkway Properties, Randy Lominick, Scott Hamilton, Waggoner Engineering
Companies are dodging bulky, pricey servers and putting data into the clouds “Cloud computing” is more than just a buzzword mumbled around the IT water cooler. Scott Hamilton, executive director of CIT.MS, an economic development group in Ridgeland that supports the information technology community, calls the term is a misnomer. “In order to simplify diagrams [...] [...]
by Amy McCullough Published: August 15,2010
Tags: Camgian Microsystems Corporation, Dr. Gary Butler, Starkville-base
Continued large growth is expected through infrastructure in the coming years, with a Mississippi company on the forefront Starkville-based Camgian Microsystems Corporation is among the world’s elite companies that are developing wireless devices that can communicate with each other and with humans. These new devices will be embedded in everything from buildings and bridges to [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: August 15,2010
Stennis director remembers Hurricane Katrina, promises to carry on the space center’s legacy The most difficult day in Patrick Scheuermann’s career as a NASA executive had nothing to do with outer space. “I had just been assigned to be the chief operating officer for the Michoud Assembly Facility (in New Orleans),” Scheuermann said. “Friday — [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: August 15,2010
Tags: David Litchliter, Information Technology Services, IT nerve center, Mississippi, State Data Center
New home for state government’s nerve center was delayed but the wait will soon be over The IT nerve center for state government in Mississippi is getting a new home, and the agency that will oversee its transition is just waiting for the keys to the new building. Information Technology Services (ITS) executive director David [...] [...]
by Laura Smith Published: May 23,2010
Tags: Apple, B.B. King, Connie Gibbons, iPad, Jimmy Abbott
The day Apple’s iPad went on sale in Apple stores nationwide — April 3 —Jimmy Abbott’s was shipped to his home in Indianola. He’d ordered his on March 12, within hours of when Apple began taking pre-orders. As the owner of an iMac, an Apple laptop and an iPhone, he had to [...] [...]
by Laura Smith Published: May 23,2010
Tags: Bonnie Welch, technology, Verizon Wireless
Industry has been transformed in her 15 years Bonnie Welch is the business sales manager in Mississippi for Verizon Wireless, but her 15-year career in the telecommunications industry began by chance. After completing her associate’s degree in business management from Hinds Community College, Welch contacted an employment agency for a job she was interested in. [...] [...]
by Laura Smith Published: May 23,2010
Tags: 3G, AT&T, Besselievre, iPhone
Company says iPhone sales in state are up since last 3G expansion AT&T expanded its 3G market in Mississippi in the late fall of 2009 and early winter of 2010, and areas of the state will continue to see expansion in coverage this year, company officials said. In an area that spans north of Clarksdale, [...] [...]
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