After last year’s initial investment of $160 million, The White House has stated that it is placing an extra $80 million into technology and smart city projects.
Read MoreThe ranks of the super-wealthy are growing quickly in China -- and nowhere more than Zhejiang province.
Read MoreAuto giant Wanxiang announced today that it will use blockchain technology as part of its newly announced smart cities initiative.
Read MoreFor the city of Munich, Smart City is a big topic: The city authorities have embarked on the road there and meet the challenges of the future: Currently is a thematic guideline "Smart City Munich" as part of the urban development concept Perspective Munich in work
Read MorePITTSBURGH — Any day now, Uber will introduce a fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, making this former steel town the world’s first city to let any passenger hail an autonomous vehicle.
Read MoreThis year’s bid by San Francisco and UC Berkeley to win the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge failed, but the momentum generated by the collaboration has resulted in an agreement between the city and the university to continue to explore innovative urban transportation options, and ways that technology can improve city life in general.
Read MoreLIVE FROM TM FORUM SMART CITY: Keynote speakers at the second Smart City conference in Yinchuan, China, warned that in their rush to roll out services to boost efficiency and enhance engagement with citizens, authorities need to use common platforms to ensure interaction between cities.
Read MoreThe 1960s witnessed the birth of rock supergroups. And now the first smart city supergroup is launching featuring ex-rock stars of municipal U.S. government.
Read More“Smart city.” By now, every governor, mayor and councilperson across the country has heard the phrase. But those two words encompass a myriad of connected technologies that can improve city life and municipal efficiency.
Read MoreAfter winning the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)'s Smart City Challenge — earning a $50 million grant to help fund future smart mobility projects earlier this year — the city of Columbus, Ohio, is in the early stages of planning how the funds will be used. The city was able to raise another $90 million from businesses, local agencies, and investors to augment the federal grant.
Read MoreThe Smart City Infocus 2016 Conference is being held in Yinchuan, China this week. I was invited to attend so I could experience this new smart city, write about it and talk about it as a wireless analyst and columnist. This event is being sponsored by the Chinese Government. They are very serious about being a leader in the smart city movement that will continue to transform all our lives in coming years.
Read MoreThere’s a paradox at the center of our increasingly technological world. The technologies we use in our day to day lives not only do more things for us, they get simpler and simpler to use. A child can use an iPhone or iPad. Our cars will soon drive themselves. But the systems that lie behind these technologies can often be so complex or complicated, they can defy the limits of a normal human’s comprehension.
Read MoreIn September 2009, the G20 designated itself as the “premier” forum for international economic cooperation. Seven years later, 2016 will be the first year in which China, the world’s second largest economy, will bear responsibility for coordinating the process. It is widely assumed that China’s growing economic strength will translate into political influence.
Read MorePrivate equity firm 22 Capital Partners has completed its Gramercy District future smart city project team with the addition of AECOM’s Tishman Construction unit, Trinity Group Construction and DVA Architects
Read MoreThe City of Louisville has emerged as a surprising leader in the movement toward smart cities and on Wednesday, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced that the city is opening a 7,000 square foot smart city command center in downtown Louisville and it will be capped off by the new CNET Urban Smart Home one floor above it.
Read MoreAs smart cities continue their inexorable growth, administrators must ensure that they are able to deliver the modern services that new data and insights make possible. In many cases, this means that the administrative landscape will have to evolve along with the smarter cities they are running.
Read MoreWith federal and regional governments jumping on the smart cities bandwagon, industry pundits want big government to butt out and let local players work their magic.
Read MoreThe internet of things network currently covers 360 cities.
China’s second largest mobile operator China Unicom ended the first half of 2016 with more than 20 million internet of things connection, after a net addition 10.5 million connections during the period, local press reported.
Read MoreChinese ICT services provider Huawei and China Telecom Corporation signed a cooperation framework agreement to deliver gigabit connectivity to homes and communities in Shenzhen to lay the foundation for creating a smart city.
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