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Tellart Co-founders Matt Cottam, left, and Nicholas Scappaticci, at their offices in Providence, are both RISD graduates.

Tellart melds technology, art

Entrepreneurship 06/17/2006

COMPANY PROFILE Tellart Owners: Matt Cottam and Nicholas Scappaticci Type of business: Information and interface design consultant Location: 27 Sims Ave., Providence (plus office in Berkeley, Calif.) Employees: Six...

Item subsidiary to focus on new medical devices

Business Services 06/10/2006

Robert E. Pelletier has been named CEO of Ximedica, a newly established, wholly owned subsidiary of Item Group in Providence that specializes in design,...

PHOTO COURTESY STRATUM BROADBAND A WORKER installs RI-WINs equipment on top of the Brown University Sciences Library.

Statewide wireless network starts taking shape

Technology 05/27/2006

Tim Thorp, computer education manager at Brown University, is one of the first people with a computer linked to a wireless network expected...

Brown shows off latest research in nanomedicine

Technology 05/27/2006

Scientists at Brown University are researching nearly invisible materials to someday help rebuild damaged nerve cells in stroke victims, replace bladder tissue in cancer...

E-paper finally arriving with new Sony ‘reader’?

Technology 05/27/2006

The dead-tree industry, aka publishing, has been wringing its hands for years now as the demand for its products – books, newspapers and the...

Technology awards honor state’s ‘best and brightest’

Technology 05/27/2006

They called them the “Techies” – glass sculptures made by East Providence artist David Van Oppen, inspired by the shapes of molecules and atoms,...

Brown University’s dean of engineering named VP of research

Technology 05/27/2006

PROVIDENCE – Clyde L. Briant, dean of engineering at Brown University, has been appointed vice president for research, effective July 1. Briant succeeds Andries...