Knoxville Knews

There's something good in the water in East Tennessee -- Gleanings from the past day or two: UT business incubator is home to seven high-tech startups, just six months after opening... UT College of Business MBA Innovation and Entrepreneurship curriculum produces a case study on Health IT implementation... The search is still underway for a new chief for Oak Ridge Associated Universities... UT visiting scholar shares a bit on his personal experience with 'crowd-sourcing'... A Virginia company has bought ETN's Nuclear Fuel Services... and, a report on how the Knoxville business community gets behind improving schools and building a student-tracking database. Review VentureNashville stories here.

Judge: IdleAire shareholders should have low expectations

The Knoxville News Sentinel's update on IdleAire's debtor-in-possession bankruptcy status leaves little hope for shareholders in the tech company that they'll salvage anything. Here's our earlier post on IdleAire and an earlier statement from the company.

Jaguar, Kraken and other OR/UT cyberclaims to fame

Frank Munger, veteran science-technology writer at the Knoxville News Sentinel, does a great job this morning updating us on supercomputing at Oak Ridge NL and UT. Read about Jaguar and Kraken, here. That's a KNS photo of a worker marking spots for still more computer cabinets, all to take Jag to the petaflop level and beyond.