Tag archive: Boise

On June 16, Verizon will turn on 4G coverage a a number of new 4G LTE markets, adding a number of smaller cities and metropolitan areas in the Midwest and California. In a series of press releases, the wireless carrier has announced coverage for more than 30 areas. We've gathered the press releases and organized the cities by state below. Check out the list to see if your area is getting 4G! For more detail on LTE areas, click on the… Read More

So far, Clearwire has only launched WiMax 4G mobile services in Baltimore, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Portland Oregon, but the company keeps saying it plans to activate additional markets in the near future. Today, the company announced ten more locations that are in line for WiMax services, with two online today and eight more coming September 1. But they aren't exactly major metropolitan areas: Bellingham, Washington and Boise Idaho… Read More

Thousands of new inventions are registered (or stolen) and reach the global marketplace every year, but only a tiny handful become staples of modern life. The telegraph, the telephone, the lightbulb, and radio were each breakthroughs which had tremendous impacts on today's culture, but one de facto standard of modern life probably rests in your hand every day: the television remote control. Robert Adler, the co-inventor of the… Read More

“The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Boise, claims that the misclassification denied benefits such as health insurance, vacation and sick leave, and retirement plans to more than3,000 HP workers throughout the United States. The suit seeks more than $300 million in damages. The 33 named plaintiffs, most from the company's Boise plant, claim they qualify as employees instead of contractors under a questionnaire used… Read More

But the revenue line and the fact that Micron, is back in the black, shows that the DRAM market is picking up at long last. Compare and contrast with Q1 last year, when the company, America's last DRAM maker, produced a net loss of $315.9m on sales of $685.1m. And the market will stay picked up in the medium term, according to IDC, which is forecasting industry revenue increases in 2004 and 2005. And then in 2006, as is the way of the… Read More