Web and Tech News in the Northwest

What does this mean? It’s pretty clear it effect everyone shipping products to Washington State and online businesses doing so. There no longer is an incentive, no sales tax, to purchasing from you over a local business. Slowly each state is essentially repealing the “no internet sales tax” that we have had standing for so long. The cost of doing business online just increased and got closer to being on par with offline business, at least where taxes are concerned.

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“High Technology,” said Jason Crawforth, founder and chief strategy officer of MobileDataforce, a Boise company with a software system for compiling and transmitting information from handsets in the field to databases in the home office. In fact, the bulk of this article, written by the New York Times business journalist James Flanigan, talks about [...]

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Just surf the Idaho Statesman’s website for a few minutes and you will realize very quickly that  Boise companies Micron and Hewlett-Packard are in some trouble.   Heck, Idaho is in some trouble.
Micron, one of Idaho’s largest employers, stated that they will be laying off 15% of their employees nation-wide, translating into 1500 [...]

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Are you a web/tech professional in the Northwest? Do you want to write about the issues that effect our industry and our little section of the country? Well now is your chance! NWWebReport.com is currently looking for contributors in Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland areas, as well as outlining cities.

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I remember surfing the net through Compuserv and AOL way back in 1996/97.  Back then AOL or Compuserv was THE Internet and, if I can remember correctly, you paid for the amount of time you were on their services (I could even go back to the day when we surfed directly to BBS’s through the [...]

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