John P. Mello Jr., Author at Providence Business News

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UMASS-DARTMOUTH researchers are using ink-jet technology to create precisely designed cell cultures, such as these human bone-marrow stem cells. /

Ink-jet printers offer novel way to grow cells<br> in 3-D formations

Education 10/28/2007

Ink-jet printers can create images with great precision. But how about cell cultures, miniature organs, or even – one day – full human organs...

Printer helps kids get into publishing

Economic Activity 09/23/2007

Océ is a $4 billion international company with physical plants all over the world, including Trumbull, Conn., and Coventry. However, its forte – large-scale...

Gaming deal is anything but casual

Capital Goods 08/24/2007

In a megadeal earlier this month, Hasbro Inc. inked a pact with the largest video game publisher in the world, Electronic Arts. With it,...

ALISTAIR PIM, vice president for global strategic accounts at APC-MGE, says the use of more high-density boxes in data centers has made cooling a bigger issue. /

New gear makes ‘green’ measures crucial

Natural Resources 07/30/2007

As energy costs have climbed in recent times, the once-blank check that data center operators were willing to write for their information processing hubs...

URI OCEAN ENGINEERING Prof. Malcolm Spaulding, left, the director of the new undersea center, shows off his CoastMap software program along with colleague Eoin Howlett. /

Dual-use applications are focus of undersea center

Capital Goods 06/23/2007

This spring, the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center awarded the University of Rhode Island $150,000 to create a Center of Excellence in Undersea Technology....

MICHAEL SALINGER, director of technology and development at OpenBOX Technologies, says the software-as-service concept is starting to gain widespread acceptance. /

Software as service helps reduce costs

Business Services 05/26/2007

Technology can be a great leveler in the business playing field, but in the past, entry costs could limit access to it. With the...

GUY deWARDENER, chief information officer at Applied Sciences Associates, says the company's Oilmap software lets users 'actually see ... how [a spill] is dispersing.' /

Modeling movement in water

Capital Goods 04/28/2007

What do the Coast Guard, dredgers and the oil industry have in common? They all, from time to time, have a need to predict...

Imperfect fixes for daylight-saving time problems

Entrepreneurship 03/24/2007

After the Y2K scare, you’d think that the computer industry could handle without much difficulty a little thing like a change in daylight-saving time...

'WE'RE RIGHT AT the beginning of an exciting new time in broadband wireless,' says Jeff Thompson, Towerstream's president and CEO.
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Seizing the opportunities as WiMAX comes of age

Business Services 02/24/2007

Many communication pundits believe WiMAX – Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access – has the potential to change wireless communication as we know it. That's...