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Personalized medicine goal of Lifespan executive

A top Lifespan administrator recently urged a government advisory group charged with growing the state’s science and technology sectors to jump into the global...

For businesses, Internet decides those who win

Late last year, executives at Biomedical Structures LLC realized their outdated Web site and lack of a focused Internet marketing strategy was probably costing...
TODD KNAPP, left, president of Envision Technology Advisors, said that his company is more of a business-consulting firm that 
specializes in technology than a traditional IT firm. At right is Mike Ando, a virtualization specialist. /

Envisioning a cerebral side of IT

Envision Technology Advisors LLC, an information technology company in Providence, takes a brainy approach to IT services. Businesses that contact Envision for help with an...
KATHY SZABO, right, executive director of the Block Island Chamber of Commerce, shows New Jersey residents Vincent Landri and Caroline Walker popular tourism spots. Block Island is taking steps to boost its tourism industry. /

Block Island sharpens marketing

Block Island’s tourism industry will soon get a facelift on the Internet, when the island’s tourism council unveils its new Web portal. The updated Web...

Clam transplant is first step<br> for new conservation alliance

CHARLESTOWN – Volunteers working for a new public-private conservation partnership today transplanted more than 90,000 clams, collectively weighing nearly 20,000 pounds, into Ninegret Pond. The...
BRIAN JEPSON, a co-founder of the Providence Geeks, works on his laptop at a recent Geeks dinner at AS220. The monthly events now draw about 100 people each. /

City&rsquo;s fledgling IT sector nearing a critical mass

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither has the foundation for a thriving information technology sector in greater Providence been. But according to...
THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RESTORATION SCHOOL is renovating this Newport building for boat-building, marine training, a library and commercial space. /

Making room for marine businesses

Eastern Ice Company started doing business on Newport’s waterfront in 1929, supplying ice and coal to the city’s commercial fishing fleet and other marine...
FLOODING LIKE this along the Pocasset River in Johnston, Cranston and Providence has increased in recent decades, damaging homes, businesses, roads and bridges. /

NRCS developing plan to stop Pocasset River flooding

Working with money earmarked by U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), a federal agency recently completed a study aimed at stopping flooding of the Pocasset...
KEITH LAKE, left, and Rick Marcinko, both of Verizon Communications, install FiOS 
optical network terminals. Verizon is competing with Cox Communications in the state. /

Verizon pushes FiOS across state

Continuing its push into Rhode Island’s cable television market, Verizon Communications will spend $86 million in the state by year’s end to continue laying...

Brown, URI contribute $50,000 to R.I. Research Alliance

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC) announced today that Brown University and the University of Rhode Island will each contribute...
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