
If it weren’t for EXPO the staff at BCI might not have anything to wear. Maybe that’s a stretch, but according to BCI marketing director Wendi Garrison, clothes were one of her company’s many networking success stories to come right out of the Mississippi Business Journal’s Business & Technology EXPO. The event plus the power [...] [...]

by Amy McCullough Published: March 4,2012
Tags: Baton Rouge, BCI, Birmingham, China, Cisco, Gerard Gibert, Google, Google+ Hangouts, GoToMeeting, GULFPORT, Iran, Joe Stradinger, JoeOptions.com, LifeSize, Memphis, Michael Helmbrecht, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Pam Ware, Shanghai, Skype, Tandberg Solution, The Focus Group, Venture Technologies, Wendi Garrison, www.gotomeeting.com
What does Iran have to do with Mississippi? Controversy over the country’s nuclear program has caused oil prices to rise again. When oil prices spike, gasoline prices do, too, and that means higher travel expenses for businesses nationwide. Mississippi businesses are increasingly saving on travel costs by embracing web and video conferencing technologies. They are [...] [...]
RIDGELAND- Blake Webber, VP of sales for Business Communications Inc. talks about his company’s role in the growing cloud computing marketplace. [...]

Tom Hinds, president of Business Communications Inc. (BCI), a Ridgeland-based IT solutions provider, says he has had a “good smattering” of the technology business since starting out as a controller for AT&T more than twenty years ago. An Army brat growing up, Hinds transferred to Mississippi in 1989 following the BellSouth acquisition of Mobile Communications. [...] [...]