HATTIESBURG — Epic, an integrated electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management system, has gone live across Hattiesburg Clinic’s network of locations and providers, changing the technology of the practice.
Since then, patients who have visited Hattiesburg Clinic have experienced a different kind of appointment where they have left the office more informed and with increased [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 30,2012
Tags: airplanes, aviation, builders, building, construction, contractor, defense, industrial parks, jets, military, plant, technology
ELLISVILLE — GE Aviation officials will soon choose a contractor to build a planned 300,000-square-foot plant in Ellisville, and hope to open it next year, company spokesman Rick Kennedy says.
GE Aviation, a unit of the General Electric Co. said in July that the $56 million project was planned for the Howard Technology Park.
We hope to [...] [...]
HANCOCK COUNTY — The relocation of the RS-25D space shuttle main engine inventory from Kennedy Space Center’s Engine Shop in Cape Canaveral, Fla., is underway. The RS-25D flight engines, repurposed for NASA’s Space Launch System, are being moved to NASA’s Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi.
The Space Launch System (SLS) is a new heavy-lift launch [...] [...]
JACKSON — Bomgar Corporation has released the latest version of it remote support software, Bomgar 12.1. The new version expands technicians’ ability to offer support both to and from mobile devices, for improved handling and utilization of today’s sophisticated smartphones and tablets. It also provides advanced smart card-based security controls, and greatly improves enterprise support [...] [...]
The very notion that I would set out to write a commentary on the explosion of technology in politics would be the subject of much mirth amongst the staffers of the Stennis Institute. As further proof that timing is everything, particularly to an incurable political junkie, the close proximity of the Christmas break in [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 10,2012
Tags: aerospace, aviation, defense, employment, expansion, jobs, manufacturing, military, research and development, space, technology, workers
HANCOCK COUNTY — Rolls-Royce North America is adding a second jet engine test stand at the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center, according to a release from the governor’s office. The project represents a company investment of at least $50 million and will create 35 new jobs.
Currently, Rolls-Royce employs 45 workers at its existing test [...] [...]

In this week’s MBJ — Monster shrimp invade the Coast: Asian Tiger Shrimp are proving to be a nightmare for researchers who say they could feed on all other shrimp species and cause price spikes across the nation. By Wally Northway
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>> Legislature kicks off: Small business lobby hopeful odds of passage [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: December 15,2011
Tags: accreditation, certification, computers, computing, federal contracts, federal government, hardware, information technology, software, technology
JACKSON — Bomgar Corporation has been awarded a Level 2 Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS) 140-2 Validation: Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules for its B200, B300 and B400 appliances and version 10.6.2 software.
FIPS 140-2 validation is a requirement for any cryptographic product, which will be used in a U.S. government agency network.
According to Bomgar, [...] [...]

by Stephen McDill Published: December 11,2011
Tags: Apple, Bill Rayburn, Bomgar Box, Chris Cope, CYBERSPACE, David Moore, David Palmer, Fred Haise, Gary Butler, Gerard Gibert, Hartley Peavey, Hu Meena, iPhone, Jill Beneke, Jim Barksdale, Joe Stratinger, Joel Bomgar, John Palmer, Kelli Booth, Matthew Graves, Mayo Flynt, MBJ, Nuno Goncalves Ferreira, Sage Gerard, science, Stephen Johnston, tech 21, technology, telecom, THE Business, Tom Hinds
Mississippi’s tech scene is on the rise, thanks to flashy successes like Hu Meena’s blockbuster deal with Apple to get the iPhone for C Spire and Joel Bomgar, whose Bomgar Box is taking the world by storm. From Starkville to Ocean Springs, and everywhere in between, here are some of Mississippi’s leaders in the Tech [...] [...]

by Associated Press Published: November 3,2011
Tags: Adam and Eve, addiction, being human, Bioethics, Bishop Joseph Latino, choice, conversion, Cultural Psychiatry, death, Duncan Gray, Europe, faith, freedom, Garden of Eden, global health, guilt, innocence, instrumentalisation, Last Night, life after death, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Morality, Neuroscience, objectification, objectivity, Personhood, Pharma Culture, Politics, Pope John Paul II, Psychiatry, Rabbi Deborah Kassoff, Relationships, scientific research, seeing, sex, sexuality, shame, staring, subjectivity, suffering, technology, the look, Theology of the Body
Mississippi religious leaders are split on a “personhood” initiative on next Tuesday’s ballot.
Initiative 26 would amend the state constitution to declare life begins at fertilization.
The state’s largest religious group, the Mississippi Baptist Convention, supports the proposal, as does the Tupelo-based American Family Association.
>> RELATED STORY: Barbour votes for Personhood amendment after all
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