Ted Nesi
Autocrat steps up aggressiveness while cutting costs
Pat Holmes took over in April as the chief operating officer of Autocrat Inc., the family-owned, local company that has been selling coffee and...
Students see design as profession
Josh Silverman was 16 when he got a summer internship that would change his life. As an intern in a design firm, Silverman discovered...
Hotels weigh costs of Internet
Just a few decades ago, most hotel guests were lucky if they found their rooms equipped with a color television set. At some establishments,...
Steamship society goes online to ID old vessels
The word “Wikipedia” would have been only gibberish in the late 1930s, when Edward O. Clark began his lifelong hobby of photographing steamships, ferries...
Five Questions With: Tanya Sparkman
The upscale Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, which has a restaurant in the new tower of the Westin Providence hotel, last month...
iPhone still drawing crowds at Providence Place
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Islanders are displaying a voracious appetite for the new iPhone 3G, and the Apple Store in the Providence Place mall is...
Providence software developer to handle<br> e-records for Einstein College of Medicine
NEW YORK – SMART Management Inc., a Providence-based software developer, has been chosen by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to facilitate the school’s...
Local information sector gains jobs in June
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s information sector added 100 new jobs in June, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training announced in an otherwise gloomy...
UMass study: Small businesses <br> better at navigating Web 2.0
DARTMOUTH - Fast-growing small businesses are adopting Web 2.0 tools at a far faster pace than large established corporations, according to new research.
Among the...
Scorned LNG proponent is digging in
After five years of protests, delays and setbacks, you might think Weaver’s Cove Energy would be ready to scrap its plan to build a...














