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Microsoft Helping Break Ground on Cloud-Connected Homes in New Smart City

The home of the future will be bedecked with smart sensors that send their data to the cloud so you can manage the house from afar--yes, we've heard this story we've before. But now Microsoft is helping build a smart city in Portugal packed with exactly these smart dwellings.READ MORE

The Battle for Control of Smart Cities

Will tech-powered cities revolutionize the way we live or hand corporations the keys to our privacy? A new study by the Rockefeller Foundation offers conclusions.READ MORE

Wiring a Smart City in the Desert

Is Dubai the world’s smartest city? Maybe not in the sense that it mortgaged long-term infrastructure with $100 billion in very short-term debt, but “smart” in a way IBM, Cisco and other tech heavyweights would be envious ...READ MORE

Cisco to Turbo Boost South Korean City to "Smart" Future-City Status

Cisco has just signed up to what sounds like a bizarre and confusing thing: It'll be a partner in developing a whole "smart city" in Korea. Weird. But if you think about it, with networks connecting up everything, it may be a model ...READ MORE

Paging Philip K. Dick: MIT Develops Minority-Report-Style Floating LED Screens

Thousands of hovering, helicopter-mounted LEDs can make display screens in midair.READ MORE

Cisco Plans to Make a Massachusetts City Smarter, Rather Than Build One From Scratch

Cisco signed a deal on Wednesday with Holyoke, Massachusetts to transform the onetime mill town into a "Smart+Connected Community" over the next six-to-twelve months. Cisco has moved aggressively into the smarter city business in ...READ MORE