THE MEDICAL DEVICE manufacturing sector in Massachusetts, by any measure, is doing well. From employment rates and wage growth to innovation and venture opportunities, medical device manufacturing is moving forward. Looking […]
Technology
Posted inThe Download
Boston’s data plan
Mayor Marty Walsh is determined to go boldly into the 21st century. Or at least make sure Boston arrives, even if a little late, at the end of the 20th. […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
A Jeffersonian take on the Internet and T
THE IDEA OF American democracy has its roots in the Declaration of Independence’s affirmation that people are entitled to the benefits of certain unalienable rights – rights that are so […]
Posted inEconomy, State House News Service
Bridging the digital divide
Princeton is one of 45 municipalities across the state that do not have access to high-speed Internet service. The town’s broadband committee tried to get Charter, Comcast, or Verizon to […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
The real taxi squeeze play
A familiar drama played out in the Boston City Council chambers yesterday, where taxi drivers and city regulators accused rideshare drivers of operating illegally, and called for sweeping regulations of […]
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Racism trending
It was all too painfully familiar, making it that much more easy to believe. P.K. Subban, a black player on the hated Montreal Canadiens team playing in a near-lily white […]
Posted inEconomy, The Download
Comcast: Is bigger better?
Comcast’s proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner is getting lots of negative reviews, but the monopolistic nature of cable service today makes it difficult for customers to see what’s […]
Posted inThe Download
Trying to Patch the sinking news lifeboat
Soccer is the game of the future, its deriders have long said, and always will be. After the latest news that Patch, the pet project of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, […]
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The battle for the last digital mile
Net neutrality is a simple concept: All data are created equally. Or, at least, should be treated equally. It means, at its base, TimeWarner, Verizon, Comcast, or some other broadband […]
Posted inHealth Care, The Download
Rage against the machine
Technology has been credited – some would say condemned – for launching the demise of newspapers and other media. Now, the computer industry has been identified as the bogeyman in the […]
Posted inEconomy, State House News Service, The Download
Technology services tax snafu ensnares Democrats
What if Massachusetts levied a tax and no one wanted to pay it? The business community is in full chuck-the-tea-in-Boston-Harbor mode over the new computer and software services tax. […]
Posted inEnvironment, The Download
Cape Wind’s new foes
After years of sitting on the fence, the state’s top CEOs came out against Cape Wind yesterday in a series of full-page newspaper ads in the Boston Globe, the Boston […]
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Scream all you want but don’t Yahoo! at home
There’s something ironic, perhaps disconcerting, about a tech company built on people’s ability to access it from anywhere forcing its employees to work in the office rather than at home. […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Uber cab controversy
The Boston cab industry has never been much of a sympathetic character. So it was no surprise when the state’s August attempt to shut down the cell-phone-based cab service known […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
The T giveth, and the T taketh away
Commuters getting on the MBTA this morning may have found the ride a little bit more predictable. The Globe reports that the T is beginning to roll out a countdown […]
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Domain bonanza
The World Wide Web is getting crowded, or so they say, so the international nonprofit that governs the way the Internet operates decided to see if there was any interest […]
Posted inEconomy, The Download
Retaining Boston’s tech cluster
Today marks the fourth day of South by Southwest (SXSW), a conference that attracts almost 50,000 people and showcases the latest in music, film, and technology each year in Austin. […]
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Who will like Facebook’s IPO?
How much are our jokes, our stories, our likes and dislikes, our pictures, our family and friends worth? To you, priceless, but on the open market, perhaps as much as […]
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Common ground for strange Web bedfellows
President Obama came out against some of the provisions in the two bills in Congress that would put the boot on online piracy so you’d think the remaining Republican contenders […]