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No excuses, reflects industry, after trio of Florida cities are hacked and held to ransom

There should be few excuses for cyber attacks, and the buck stops with senior managers for failing to prevent and minimise their impact, even as the volume of connected ‘things’ spirals upwards and the threat landscape spreads outwards. This is the view of industry commentators,...

Smart cities: 76% are single-sector apps; revenues to reach $263bn by 2028

Annual revenue for the global smart city technology market will jump from $97.4 billion in 2019 to $263 billion by 2028, a rise of more than 150 per cent, with cumulative revenue expected to reach almost $1.7 trillion. This is the forecast from analyst...

‘No one owns urban data’, says Google, as privacy commissioner quits Sidewalk Labs

Ontario’s former privacy commissioner has resigned from her consulting role at Google’s sister company Sidewalk Labs over its failure to guarantee citizens’ personal data would be protected at its Toronto smart-city development. Ann Cavoukian resigned from Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google parent Alphabet, on Friday...

Global smart-city platform market to reach $755m by 2027, claims report

The global market for smart city platforms will reach $755 million by 2027, according to new research, and enable cities to deliver services to their citizens in the manner of internet giants like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Smart city platforms provide the cities...

UK city of Bristol is named the smartest of them all

The city of Bristol, in southwest England, has been named the smartest of smart cities by the GSMA at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona. The mobile trade organisation noted its “focused, collaborative, and future-thinking approach”, as well as its robust communications infrastructure, well-established...