Analysts: Micron outpaces competition despite some flaws 
POSTED: Monday, January 30, 2012 at 04:29 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Micron Technology Inc.
Industry analysts say Micron CEO Steve Appleton was mostly on point when he informed shareholders Jan. 24 that the company would see a tough memory market in 2012.
Nor was there disagreement that the company had positioned itself to weather the downturn in DRAM markets, where Micron does a large portion of its business.
Appleton’s main message [...]
Premier Technology gives birth to three startups
POSTED: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 05:05 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
After building up Premier Technology Inc. to a 350-employee staple in southeastern Idaho, Doug Sayer is ready to start all over again.
Sayer is stepping down as CEO of Premier, the company he founded in 1996 with “$35,000 and a pickup,” to helm three spinoff companies with three very different products. While Sayer nurtures the new [...]
SolutionPro acquired, will build new data center
POSTED: Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 06:49 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Boise data center SolutionPro has been acquired by Iowa company Involta LLC, paving the way for another data center expansion in the Treasure Valley.
SolutionPro, which operates high grade servers for its clients, will remain a division of Involta and expand its operations to open a new data center, said Reed Disney, SolutionPro chief operating officer.
“There [...]
Balihoo nets $5 million in VC funding
POSTED: Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 01:47 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Boise software company Balihoo is getting a $5 million venture capital investment that will allow it to double its workforce.
The money will fund a major expansion for the company, which sells software allowing national companies to coordinate local marketing campaigns with local stores that sell their products.
Shane Vaughan, Balihoo vice president of marketing, said Jan. [...]
Eagle software company bought out, plans expansion
POSTED: Friday, January 6, 2012 at 02:53 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Eagle software corporation ALMSA Corporation will expand after it was bought by the California-based Yardi Systems.
ALMSA COO Fil Southerland said Jan. 5 that the company had been looking for either a large influx of investor funding or a “strategic buyout” to meet demand for its product, software that helps managers of assisted living and long term care [...]
Konica Minolta expanding in Boise
POSTED: Friday, December 30, 2011 at 01:12 PM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Tags: Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Business Solutions, which provides an array of office and professional services, is planning to add five employees to its sales staff, including one or two hires in the short term, and has long-term plans to add support technicians as well. Currently, the New Jersey-based company has four Boise employees, including two in sales, [...]
The pitfalls of ‘frictionless’ social media
POSTED: Monday, December 26, 2011 at 03:03 PM PTBY: Correy Stephenson
Technological advances continue to make life easier and yet more complicated at the same time.
Take “frictionless” social media – full integration between sites like Facebook and various third party applications and websites so that friends and family know where you are and what you are doing at all times, without a user having to make [...]
HubWorks digitizes the restaurant experience
POSTED: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 10:06 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Aaron Gabriel, HubWorks Interactive, Rob Berger
Two guys with a strong aversion to standing in line for drinks decided to cut out the middleman, creating self-ordering software for the iPad that could end up in one of America’s largest restaurant chains.
The Coeur d’Alene-based HubWorks Interactive has already rolled out its product, an iPad tablet that connects to a restaurant or bar’s point [...]
Idaho Power wraps up meter project
POSTED: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 03:16 PM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Idaho Power recently replaced its last analog meter.
The 501,000 new electronic meters, including replacements and new-construction installations, cost Idaho about $150 each. They can be read over power lines and the Internet.
Idaho Power likes the new meters because they substantially reduce personnel and transportation costs in a 24,000-square-mile service territory that includes many remote, sparsely [...]
INL gets deal for algae energy research
POSTED: Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 04:25 PM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Tags: Idaho National Laboratory
The Idaho National Laboratoryhas a three-year agreement to research extracting oil and biofuel from algae with OriginOil, based in California. Officials with the lab said eight to 10 INL employees will work on the project, which will get fully underway in January. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, though OriginOil will also bring in [...]
