Vonage settles suit on patents
Vonage Holdings Corp., the second-largest Internet phone-service provider, resolved a patent dispute with Nortel Networks Corp. that threatened to shut down some of Vonage’s...
State freezes $14k refund for fired DMV worker
PROVIDENCE – The state has frozen the $14,000 pension-fund refund requested by Soraya Santiago, a former R.I. Division of Motor Vehicles employee who was...
Operation Dollar Bill nets execs, pols in 2007
The ongoing federal corruption probe known as Operation Dollar Bill in 2007 netted a former Rhode Island House majority leader and cost the state’s...
Marshall Environmental helps tomorrow’s leaders
Marshall Environmental President and CEO Peter Marshall recently marked his fifth anniversary as a volunteer with Junior Achievement of Rhode Island by integrating his...
Fall River Chamber offers free business counseling
FALL RIVER – The Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc. today announced it has received $50,000 from the Mass. Office of...
R.I. among Top 10 states for home inspections
CHICAGO – Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut all ranked among the Top 10 states for home-inspection laws in the American Society of Home Inspectors’...
R.I. joins multistate appeal of EPA emissions ruling
SAN FRANCISCO – California has filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appealing the ruling last month that barred states from enforcing vehicle...
New Year’s resolutions
Have you resolved to do any of the following in 2009?
• Make improvements to office space environment – 46.7%
• Spend...
EAPD completes merger with U.K. firm
NEW YORK and LONDON – Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP has completed its merger with London-based Kendall Freeman, the firms said in a...
State freezes pension refund to former DMV worker
PROVIDENCE – The state has frozen the $14,000 pension-fund refund requested by Soraya Santiago, a former R.I. Division of Motor Vehicles employee who was...












