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Some new residents in the Treasure Valley have reported having trouble signing up for installation of internet service, with delays of as much as a couple of weeks before appointments are available. “Due to high demand for CenturyLink’s high speed ...

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Small- to medium-sized businesses are increasingly at risk of being hacked, but they can protect themselves. The Federal Bureau of Investigation gets a “handful” of calls every week from the Boise area about cyber attacks, said Clark Harshbarger, special agent ...

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A University of Idaho researcher has been awarded more than $750,000 to study biofuels. Tara Hudiburg, assistant professor with the University of Idaho’s College of Natural Resources, was awarded the grant to study biofuel sustainability. She is a co-principal investigator and will ...

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Education will need to change to provide the types of jobs that future employers will need, according to Google’s education policy expert. Jaime Casap, chief education evangelist for Google, was brought in on May 23 by the Idaho Virtual Reality ...

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Micron has built a number of buildings over the years to expand its fabrication capacity, most recently last year, but its latest  construction efforts are aimed at its people. The company is working on a new office building, as well ...

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Micron stock has been going up since the company made a three-pronged announcement on May 21 that it was raising its quarterly earnings expectations, making some deals with computer hardware vendor Intel, and initiating a $10 billion stock buyback program. ...

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Scant months after the state of Idaho took steps to beef up its cybersecurity, state government computers fell prey to two attacks in a matter of days. First, on May 9, an employee at the Idaho Tax Commission fell prey ...

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To comply with a Department of Justice decree involving its purchase of the Level 3 telecommunications company, CenturyLink Inc. has sold some of that company’s Boise metro network assets to Syringa Networks. The purchase covered only the physical fiber optic ...

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A software engineering apprenticeship program developed by the Department of Labor and funded by the federal government has placed its first apprentices. “There’s truly a shortage of software talent,” said Dan Puga, president of In Time Tec LLC, in Meridian, ...

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Faced with an increasing shortage of workers, Idaho dairies are investing in robotic milkers. “The interest in robotic milking in Idaho is growing quite rapidly,” said John Paetz, regional manager of Lely North America, headquartered in Pella, Iowa. The company ...

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