BROWSING: Boston

Whatever happened to the concept of ‘smart cities’? We used to write about them all the time, but the whole discipline seems to have splintered in recent years into a myriad of public and private urban smart-infrastructure sub-sectors, mostly covering the creeping modernisation of...

It has taken three years to appear, but four cities (“communities”) are to adopt and test a set of visual icons, originally developed and announced as part of the Google parent-company Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs project, on smart-connected infrastructure around their streets and neighbourhoods. The...

Boston has appointed its first chief information security officer (CISO) to lead its fight to secure the data of its city operations and its citizens, and to modernise its technology architecture alongside.  Gregory McCarthy, with the city since 2010, will lead its cybersecurity team within...

Verizon will "significantly expand" its LTE small cell network in Boston Verizon is deepening its network infrastructure relationship with the city of Boston, with an updated 10-year agreement that touches on everything from small cell deployments to the carrier's presence in the city and digital equity. Verizon...