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Smart Cities
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3.0KInnovationSmart City Concept Gets New Boost From Google Parent
Behold the rise of the smart city — a development that will have significant impact on payments and commerce, at least according to...
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6.6KEcosystemsAlabama Debuts Smart Utility Payments Program
It started, arguably, with mass transit, though with many bumps along the way, as the problems are slowly being solved while still...
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5.5KIntelligence of ThingsAlias Creators On Security, GDPR And Data As The New Oil
“Alexa, how secure is my data?” Smart speakers and other IoT devices are growing in popularity and affordability for consumers, many of...
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14.5KIntelligence of Things‘Alexa — Is My Data Secure On Connected Devices?’
By 2020, there will be an estimated 26 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-connected devices active around the world. As the IoT market...
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2.6KInnovationAlphabet Seeks Share Of Taxes For Toronto ‘Smart City’
To create a smart city on the waterfront of Toronto, Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is reportedly looking for a share of development fees, increased...
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6.3KInnovationDigital License Plates Vie For Place In The Connected Car Ecosystem
The move toward a connected car ecosystem includes the potential use of digital license plates on vehicles — an effort that has...
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7.5KAuthenticationDeep Dive: Why Smart Cities Should Get Smart About Digital ID
By some accounts, approximately 70 percent of the world’s population will reside in smart cities by 2050. The following Deep Dive explores...
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11.8KSecurity & FraudPSD2 Is Coming — Are Merchants Ready?
From using instant messaging to getting directions and shopping online, consumers are constantly generating a trail of data about their preferences and...
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5.9KRegulationSmart Cities At Risk for GDPR Fines?
GDPR still has ripple effects, several months after its debut — and the ripple effects extend from Europe to U.S. shores. News...
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4.8KEcosystemsConnected Cars Hitch A Ride On Smart City Spending
They are siblings, the concepts of connected vehicles and smart cities. Tied together by data, sensors, algorithms, software and other technology, the...
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6.3KInternet of ThingsSmart Cities Projects Testing IoT Technology To Fix Traffic, Transit Woes
Internet of Things technology is known to much of the public through the development of smart home technology, which allows consumers to...
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6.2KInternet of ThingsAT&T’s 5G Push To Power Tomorrow’s Smart Cities
The world is becoming an increasingly urban place. In the year 1950, only about 30 percent of the human population lived in...
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Using Blockchain To Build Up Smart Cities
Dubai is one of the fastest-growing regions in the world and has big ambitions to become a global tech hub. The young...
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7.7KB2B PaymentsHow Micro-Businesses Fit Into Mastercard’s Smart Cities Vision
Mastercard has several plans in the works to target half a billion people around the world who fall outside the realm of the...
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5.0KSecurity & FraudSmart Grids Aren’t Secure, Survey Says
A new survey from Tripwire, a global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, revealed that 98 percent...
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MasterCard’s Smart Cities Now Includes Digital Payments
MasterCard is partnering with 100 Resilient Cities — Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) in order to push digital payments as part of its “Smart Cities”...
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MasterCard On Turning Urban Hubs Into Smart Cities
More than half the world’s population lives in cities. And by the year 2050, that figure is expected to be closer to...
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5.5KSecurity & FraudWISeKey Partners To Secure Smart City Data
Global digital security solutions company WISeKey and real-time city data management platform Cityzenith are working together to aggregate, analyze and visualize critical...
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The Smart Cities Playbook
City living is set to skyrocket — with unprecedented growth expected by the year 2050 — placing a huge amount of stress...
