SILICON MOUNTAIN NEWS.

• Author: KERVEN, ANNE

Intel, Springs still talking; Esalextax.com solves tax flap

No commitment yet, and Intel Corp. and Colorado Springs are still talking alter Intel announced it would take on the old 450,000-square-foot complex abandoned by Rockwell Semiconductor Systems. The move would entail the biggest corporate investment in facilities and equipment in state history -- some $2.4 billion, said Rocky Scott, president and CEO of the Colorado Springs Economic Development Corp. "A company like that expects costs of about $1 million per employee," he added. "And that's just for equipment." ...

Colorado Springs also has established a 15-member board for its planned technology incubator, Scott said. It will start as a virtual incubator, with plans for a physical facility on the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus once $2 million is raised. But that's the last step, Scott said. ...

Talk about irony. When their e-mail works, central Eastern Plains officials update each other on the progress of two grant-funded studies of the area's telecom. The first, "a general assessment of our telecom" will produce a wish list, said Dan Dean, Burlington city administrator. The second study looks into existing and needed telecom infrastructure and funds a telecom primer from University of Colorado, which "explains the technology that exists and how to put it to use if we can get it here." Results so far show an "amazing amount" of money being spent on area telecom, he said. He hopes results show the area's market will support telecom investment. ...

Even as Internet taxation factions duke it out in Congress, an Englewood company is readying for the seeming inevitable. As a "trusted third party," said Business Development VP Shawn Fahey, Esalestax.com helps calculate state and local taxes on Internet purchases, taking the burden off the merchant. By...