Short Reports
In an industry first, Gateway Inc. is now offering to credit customer trade-ins of competitors’ PCs toward the purchase of one of its new systems. The San Diego-based company, which sells computers over the Internet and through its Gateway Country stores, will offer consumers and businesses the fair-market trade-in value of any Pentium processor-class desktop computers running at 75 megahertz or higher. By Sept. 30, the company will extend the program to all PCs, spokesman Brian Williams said Friday.
The parent corporation for Idaho’s largest utility is buying an Internet service provider to foster its expansion strategy. IDACORP did not disclose the terms of its acquisition of Boise-based regional Internet service provider Rocky Mountain Communications Inc.