Archive for February, 2008

Innovation Idaho report and map available

 
Many of you may remember the research that Virginia Tech professor Dr. Heike Mayer conducted last year here in the area.  She has gathered her research and written a report on her findings.  The Innovation Poster is available for purchase by contacting Krissa Wrigley at Idaho Tech Connect.  You can also read the full [...]

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Micron deal to outsource chip manufacturing

Eddie reported on an alleged deal with Micron and one of their competitors.  I went to check out the article to see if this spelled bad news for Boise or not.
And it actually looks like not.
Micron, Nanya Tech agree tech license, chip JV: sources | Deals | Mergers & Acquisitions | Reuters
The sources [...]

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From the Web 02/21/2008

Employee Timesheet Blog
tags: meridian, saas, software, techboise, tsheets

TSheets is a company that’s hit my radar recently (thanks Justin).  First impressions: SaaS.  Finaly another software as a service company. I have a huge bias towards SaaS.  In fact I might go as far to say that most of the succesful startups lately have been SaaS.  Sounds [...]

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How many Idaho Legislatures have broadband?

From our friends at New West
Bill Underway to Develop Idaho Broadband Network
There has been some dispute over the past couple of years regarding how many people in Idaho lack high-speed Internet access.
I want to know how many Idaho Legislatures actually have Broadband?  
When Butch kills this bill If this bill doesn’t pass [...]

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From the Web 02/19/2008

Boise Weekly - Not Your Everyday Newspaper: BW Beat: BW Beat: CanAnybodyHearUs?
tags: aaronstanton, cangooglehearme, techboise

The Boise Weekly has a short write up about Aaron Stanton’s latest adventures.  All of which can be found at www.cangooglehearme.com  - post by tacanderson

Starting Up | Idaho Statesman
tags: startingup, statesman, techboise

If you haven’t seen the Idaho Statesman weekly Starting Up series, [...]

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We can’t keep the people we want or get rid of the ones we don’t want

From all unofficial, unsubstantiated and off the record reports I have been able to drudge up (I swear you’d think we were living in a communist state), Ellick’s gone, not coming back and it wasn’t pretty.
Most reports suggest that yes his health was a *factor* but really the insurmountable task of getting the [...]

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Ellick sick? Or sick and tired?

When I heard that Butch had named a former tech executive to be the head of the Department of Commerce I was optimistic. Maybe Butch wasn’t the Luddite technophobe I thought he was.
Well today from New West comes a report that Elick has “gone on leave”. Hmmmmm
It’s pretty obvious, from Ellick’s [...]

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