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Photos: Helping out in mississippi: Burning Man vets camp out in Pearlington, Miss., where they are helping with the town's reconstruction.; Tags: photograph, Mississippi; Image galleries 2006-03-01
Photos: Helping out in mississippi: Burning Man vets camp out in Pearlington, Miss., where they are helping with the town's reconstruction.; Tags: photograph, Mississippi; Image galleries 2006-03-01
Images: Deadly Katrina hits Gulf Coast: The hurricane hit land in Louisiana but changed direction to miss New Orleans--but spread devastation into Mississippi instead.; Tags: Mississippi, Gulf Coast, Louisiana, New Orleans; Image galleries 2005-08-29
Images: Deadly Katrina hits Gulf Coast: The hurricane hit land in Louisiana but changed direction to miss New Orleans--but spread devastation into Mississippi instead.; Tags: Mississippi, Gulf Coast, Louisiana, New Orleans; Image galleries 2005-08-29
Sun Case Study: mississippi Automated System Project: The state of Mississippi wanted to substantially enhance public safety and increase productivity among law enforcement, fire and EMT agencies. Officials realized that their public safety information and communication infra-structure needed significant upgrades to provide the timely information sharing abilities the agencies required. The Mississippi Automated System Project (ASP) provides...; Tags: Agency, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM eServer, Mississippi, Mississippi Automated System Project, Remote Access, Records Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Advertising & Promotion, Servers, Telecommunications, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing; Case studies

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Neil Young gives his name to a spider: Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University (ECU) professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...; Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Centennial Wireless: Editor's note: Because evaluating wireless coverage requires experience with the network in a wide variety of physical locations, CNET does not rate wireless carriers. We can, however, tell you everything you need to know about the major carriers. We invite your feedback and ratings in our user opinions section--the more...; Tags: Cellular phones, Centennial Wireless, carrier; Product reviews 2008-05-05
Microsoft Case Study: William Carey University: Based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Carey University experienced Hurricane Katrina firsthand. The university's in-house e-mail service went down, and staff had no way to reach students. Determined to replace the old e-mail system with a reliable, hosted, Web-based e-mail service, William Carey chose Microsoft Live@edu. Today, William Carey students are...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications; Case studies 2008-04-08
New majority loses nerve on net neutrality: Now that Democrats have a majority in Congress, they are losing their appetite for direct confrontation with the phone monopolies over network neutrality. HR 5353, introduced by Rep. Edward Markey, carries no enforcement provision on network neutrality, and even carries the co-sponsorship of a neutrality opponent, Rep....; Tags: Chip Pickering, Democrat, Network, Majority, Edward Markey, Net Neutrality, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-13
Telecommuting not so great for those left in office: Telecommuting not so great for those left in officeOne word, "Envy" (nt).Email and Blogs have to be for everyone.The USA just did not ensure that the infrastructure for commuting was maintained. We see this so clearly after the Mississippi bridge collapse and Ferry Boat issues in Washington...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Blogging, Telecommuting not-so, telecommuting, not-so, job, e-mail; Discussion threads 2008-01-11
Eco-friendly next-generation mobile homes: Usually, mobile homes are not associated with terms such as long-term quality or environmental friendliness. Now, a professor of architecture at Mississippi State University (MSU) wants to change this. He has developed the concept of the GreenMobile home, an ultra-affordable and ecological-minded, factory-built housing unit. The first prototypes of these...; Tags: Mobile, Home, Mobile Home, GreenMobile, Utility Cost, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-01-11
A smart VC should eat this one up: what's in my food?: There're actually a few problems technology can handle. And I think I've run across one recently. There's a growing move that combines green tech and personal health. And it's starting to gain momentum in many countries as a combined social and political trend. We've come a...; Tags: Food, Michael Pollan, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-07
Green Tech boon. But is the new U.S. energy law cornographic?: A new U.S. energy bill has been signed into law by the President. Here are some of the green tech relevant provisions: Higher fuel-efficiency for cars and light trucks, up to 30 MPG average by 2020. That is currently the standard already in China. Europe already...; Tags: Green Technology, U.S. General Services Administration, Law, Corn, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-12-19
Biofuel massacre: ethanol's zone of death: We Americans want our gasoline, or ethanol. That means Midwestern farmers are raising the most corn in sixty years. And that, unnaturally, means more fertilizer is being used. That means more nitrogen-rich run-off from the corn fields. That run-off goes into the Mississippi and thence into...; Tags: Gulf Of Mexico, Corn, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-12-17
Are Macs more blue than red?: A look at browsers usage by state appears to track 2004 election results. Do Democrats and Republicans have a leaning towards certain computing platform? A chart and map posted on Tuesday on Net Application's Market Share site shows that there are more Mac users than average in...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2007-12-04
Battles over American air and water: There's a lot of political heat right now over American air and water. One battle may mean a lot for some old-fashioned, low-tech companies. The second could be crucial to the hybrid and electric automobile in the short-term. The car industry from Detroit...; Tags: Law, California, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-11-08
Is Ron Paul running a botnet spam op?: Is Ron Paul running a botnet spam op?CorrectionThe open letter you quoted from CNBC was not from John Harwood at all. It was from Allen Wastler, managing editor of CNBC.com (check the bottom of the letter). John Harwood wrote his own open letter, which disagreed with Wastler:http://www.cnbc.com/id/21270546/Harwoods personal opinion is...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Gary Warner, Ron Paul, spam; Discussion threads 2007-10-31
High school football under attack across America!: There's a disorganized but effective attack on high school football in America. In fact, it's directly hitting the football players themselves. As the Center for Disease Control reported earlier this week, the virulent MRSA bacterium is becoming more widespread. And it really seems to have a thing...; Tags: High School, Idaho, Football, Attack, MRSA, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-10-18
'Green IT': are we missing the bigger picture?: ZDNet colleague Larry Dignan, reporting from Gartner IT Symposium, says too much is being made of "Green IT," and IT managers he has spoken with even say it may be a bogus issue generated by vendors and consultants. Before we attack IT for depleting our energy supplies,...; Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Green IT, E-business, Data Centers, Web Technology, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-10-11
Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy: Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policyconfidentiality agreementEvery deal has a side deal in countries like England where the population still thinks its government not corruptible and more like parental units that would never harm the citizenry. The colonists in America split off from England for that exact reason. We...; Tags: Government, Vertical industries, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-10-10

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Mississippi Power Co.: Mississippi Power is engaged in the generation and purchase of electricity and the transmission, distribution, and sale of such energy within 23 counties in southeastern...; Mississippi Power Co. company page on BNET »