Hardware

A research team of Brown University scientists involved in BrainGate2 had their ground-breaking clinical trial research published in the May 17 issue of Nature. May 21

WJAR-TV NBC 10 and Shred-It’s ninth annual ‘Great Shredding Event’ destroyed more than 52,000 pounds of confidential documents on Saturday, April 21, WJAR announced Monday. Apr 23

Ten local information technology practitioners and entrepreneurs were named the 2012 Tech10 award winners by industry association Tech Collective. Apr 11

Ximedica LLC appointed Randall S. Barko the new president and CEO of the Providence-based medical product development company, while Stephen Lane, left, former CEO, has become company chairman. Apr 10

KVH Industries Inc. has opened a product testing facility that houses a custom-made hexapod motion simulator. Apr 4

GreenBytes Inc., developer of inline deduplication data storage solutions, won recognition from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its method of allocating data on physical media by a file system that optimizes power consumption. Mar 28

NetZero, the company that launched the free dial-up Internet connection phenomenon in 1998, is launching a 4G mobile broadband wireless service in 80 cities across the country, including Providence. Mar 21

Verizon Wireless is poised to get a bigger boost from Apple Inc.’s new iPad than competing wireless-service provider AT&T Inc., even though both carriers will be the first in the U.S. to sell the tablet. Mar 9

Gtech, a subsidiary of Italy-based Lottomatica, saw its full-year revenue increase 1.8 percent to 857.4 million euros, or about $1.14 billion, in 2011. Mar 8

The state-backed Slater Technology Fund announced Wednesday that it gave Alektrona $200,000 in a second round of seed-stage funding. Feb 29