Idaho News & Events

The patent describes a method for identifying a customer computer involved in an online transaction via a merchant Web site.

If Egypt was the gift of the Nile, then Idaho is the gift of the semiconductor. At least that’s how it looks according to a report released Tuesday by technology trade association AeA.

The dream is a charter-quality high school operated by all three school districts, turning abundant local potential into a productive, well-paid workforce.

The agency has planned an Oct. 4 job fair in Meridian that will cater to older workers seeking employment.

Schaller told the crowd of officials and business leaders that his seven-year-old company has grown to employ 250 people in the rural northern Idaho town and has plans to increase that figure to 400 by 2012.

These jobs include software publishers, who earned an average salary of $84,000 last year, and software engineers who were paid an average of $52,000 in 2007.

The school is the state’s only private liberal arts college.

Bennett said the mill is still making a profit even though lumber prices have fallen about 40 percent from their peak in 2004 and 2005. Employment has climbed to 165. Output recently has remained flat despite the slowdown in home construction.

Coeur d’Alene, and the rest of Kootenai County, was recently listed second on the Milken Institute’s Best Performing Small Cities list of 2008.

The school reported the biggest percentage of enrollment growth among the state’s three largest public universities this fall.