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Tuesday morning roundup

POSTED: 10:08 MDT Tuesday, March 25, 2008

by Robb Hicken

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Tags - Hewlett-Packard, Manufacturing, wine

Three Idaho workers received a patent in HP’s printing division. John Moffatt and Ryan Jamison, both of Boise, and Eugene Castro of Meridian developed an improved troubleshooting system for the operation and troubleshooting in a printing device.

A US Patent was issued on March 11 and assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. L P, Houston.

Good news for Tom McKinstry, Indian Creek Winery, and the Idaho region: Idaho Creek Winery was selected as “Idaho Winery of the Year” in Wine Press Northwest’s spring issue.

The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s monthly index reports economic activity for the $600 billion equipment finance sector showed overall new business volume for February increased 3.9 percent when compared to February 2007. Several Idaho businesses and/or a parent company participate in this monthly survey.

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