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Missouri Department Releases Traffic Conditions Application Of Irony

December 23, 2011

MoDot has released a smartphone application that reports the road conditions via a map.  It has both an iPhone and Android version available at the respective apps store. Now drivers can hit a MoDot employee while reviewing the road conditions on their smartphone. Makes sense. So much for the computer. Shouldn't MoDot get back to working on [...]

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And Then There Was None

November 6, 2011

Since starting the Net-Net Blog we’ve never had as long a break since the last post. The blog is not run by some conglomerate with an army of journalist. This is pretty well clear if you read some of the content. We nerds have been busy running the business. This time of year starts getting [...]

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Computer Programmer Shortage In Missouri

September 29, 2011

Missouri businesses are having difficulty finding qualified employees with programming skills necessary for today’s web driven market.  This is according to one Missouri employer. The students leaving Missouri colleges lack the current knowledge and skill-set.  They are taught only the fundamentals of traditional computer programming.  This is the assessment of Josh Kayser, who assisted in the launch of Suretybonds.com. Read [...]

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New Solar Technology Is In Development By A Missouri University

May 22, 2011

The University of Missouri -Columbia is developing a new and more efficient way to gather energy from the sun. The new method is 70 percent more effective than current solar technology, Photovoltaic (PV). Current solar technology does not capture all the available energy in the solar spectrum. Nantenna, the new way of gathering solar energy, collects infrared energy [...]

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Missouri Develops Five Year Economic Technology Growth Plan

April 12, 2011

The State of Missouri issued a five-year economic growth plan on April 11th, 2011.  The plan is all about technology within multiple fields of industry.  The economic plan subdivides the state into regions backed by market and demographic statistics. There are six main disciplines with each broken into niche areas.  The six disciplines are called “clusters” and listed [...]

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