GigaomBoston startup scene hurt by poor connectivity options
Boston is where Lewis Latimer helped Alexander Graham Bell design the first phone. So you’d think the city would have better connectivity now. You’d be wrong. Read more »
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Boston is where Lewis Latimer helped Alexander Graham Bell design the first phone. So you’d think the city would have better connectivity now. You’d be wrong. Read more »
The MBTA needs help to run more efficiently and for longer hours. Local tech execs said public-private partnerships could help. Read more »
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If you want world-class startups to stick around, you need to make sure public transit and entertainment venues run late, say two Boston-area entrepreneurs. Read more »
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A group of Harvard researchers who looked at information flows on Twitter during the Boston bombings came to the conclusion the network could be useful during such events for aid workers… Read more »
While much of the attention during and after the Boston bombings focused on how one Reddit thread got things wrong, there were other important parts of the community that were doing… Read more »
While both Twitter and Reddit have come under fire for distributing incorrect information about the Boston bombings, mainstream outlets have done so as well. In a real-time news environment, having more… Read more »
Developers will be able to migrate their software to energy-efficient ARM-based microservers with hardware vendor Boston’s new cloud, dubbed ARM as a Service. Read more »
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