Business

Natalie Myers has an interesting article in this week’s Providence Business News about some local business leaders hoping that hi-tech modeling and simulation becomes a boom industry in Rhode Island…Steve Swenson stands next to a plasma screen showing an unmanned air vehicle landing on an unmanned boat while skimming the ocean’s surface. The images are…

Heather M. Lightner in the Jamestown Press: Every year the editors of Popular Science review thousands of new products and technologies in order to find 100 breakthroughs in 10 different categories: automotive, computing, gadgets, home entertainment, personal health, aviation and space, engineering, home, recreation, and general innovation. This year, in addition to the “Best of…

Heck, it’s late on getaway-day, so why not a bit of fluff before you hit the stuff…ing. In a rather un-PC titled article, “Patriots vs. Redskins“, Kevin Hassett of the new American.com On-line Magazine writes about how the Patriots are the NFL’s business model franchise. Hasset explains why economic theory supports that “the [NFL] draft…

Well, after extensive efforts since the company devoured Fleet, Bank of America has finally succeeded in persuading me to take my business elsewhere. From several varieties of inconvenience to an extremely unpleasant job fair to the fees (my God, the fees!), the behemoth has finally overcome the natural inertia against changing banks. The company’s corporate…