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"When Craigslist makes it to a community, that means there’s a critical mass of tech-savvy and wired folks in town," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a non-profit research center studying the social effects of the Internet on Americans.

It’s not often you see a Twin Falls resident hawking products on cable shopping network QVC. But that’s exactly where Courtney Campbell was last week, selling Celtic-themed dip mixes and hand-thrown pottery dipping bowls to an audience of millions.

"Sport fishing in the state is a tremendous economic engine,"

The agreement will support the distribution of IdaTech’s fuel cell products by Renco into multiple Italian markets including backup power, hydrogen infrastructure development and combined heat and power.

"People really like us because we get the job done."

the presence of PharmaSys is important to growing a biosciences industry in the state.

Bruce Bradley, founder and chief scientist at Microbial-Vac Systems Inc.http://www.microbial-vac.com/ , developed a vacuum system for the detection of biohazards during the past eight years. His research started in response to an E. coli outbreak; Bradley was looking for a way to collect bacteria from meat carcasses in a nondestructive way. The result Bradley came up with was a hand-held, wet/dry vacuum sampling device which he named the Microbial-Vac.

The nominations for the 2004 Catalyst Awards, Technet’s most distinguished awards ceremony, are now being accepted. There are four categories in which you can nominate: Company, Organization, Ken Grunzeig Innovator of the Year and new…

Since 1996 Moore has run SAIL, or Self Awareness in Leisure, a nonprofit sailing, cycling, cross-country skiing and recreational therapy organization while employed with the Idaho Department of Vocational Rehabilitation.

The Spokane Valley company designs advertisements and ad campaigns, but says market research precedes everything it does. “By doing our homework up front, we increase the effectiveness of your advertising and reach your audience more efficiently,” its brochure asserts.