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By adamg - 11/20/15 - 9:28 am

The Boston Business Journal reports on the unveiling of Boston Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge drug company headed by a guy a French drug company fired as its CEO last year - in part because they didn't like the idea of him running the joint from his new home in the Boston area. Read more.

By adamg - 11/9/15 - 4:33 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports the Baker administration is drafting legislation to let cars with no drivers toodle around our local byways.

By adamg - 11/9/15 - 3:07 pm

Xconomy takes a look at a Downtown Crossing company called Bolt, which offers money, advice and gizmo-building gear to build things you can actually touch, rather than software.

By adamg - 11/4/15 - 7:58 am

Stat launched today. NiemanLab reports that while the site, which has 50 employees (compared to just 6 for Crux), is providing content to the Globe and is covering Kendall Square and the Longwood Medical Area, it's not limiting itself to local coverage - and could sign content deals with other media outlets.

By adamg - 10/21/15 - 5:13 pm

City IT workers have begun mapping out existing underground conduits to see if there's enough room for another company - or the city itself - to lay the cables needed to bring competitive high-speed broadband to Boston, City Councilor Matt O'Malley (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) said today. Read more.

By adamg - 10/21/15 - 10:48 am

Makezine interviews Tom Sanfilippo on his acquisition of a broken-down old electron microscope from Harvard and his journey to getting it to work again. One of the first problems: All the manuals were in German.

Via Jon Ghostian.

By adamg - 10/7/15 - 1:04 pm
Murphy

City Councilor Steve Murphy (at large) says a private company is willing to build a pilot, solar-powered "personal rapid transit" system that would run as a monorail between the city's two commuter-rail terminals. Read more.

By adamg - 10/2/15 - 3:58 pm

City officials today announced a new program, called BoSTEM, to provide all BPS middle-school students with science, technology, engineering and math by 2020: Read more.

By adamg - 9/29/15 - 7:56 am

The city's IT department is advertising for a Broadband and Digital Equity Advocate. Read more.

By adamg - 9/27/15 - 11:22 am

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is suing a Japanese researcher it says patented a promising method for battling cancer that is based on work by researchers at Dana-Farber and Genetics Institute in Cambridge. A Japanese drug company and Bristol-Myers Squibb are also named. Read more.

By adamg - 9/23/15 - 1:02 pm

Councilor Charles Yancey (Dorchester) today proposed installing WiFi systems in BHA senior and family housing buildings to provide free Internet access to residents.

Yancey said Internet access is vital in today's world, but that residents of housing projects often cannot afford to connect.

Several years ago, then Councilor John Tobin proposed a citywide WiFi network. Mayor Menino Wified the idea, which ultimately went nowhere.

Councilor Tito Jackson praised Yancey's idea as "a no brainer."

By adamg - 9/23/15 - 9:55 am

The mayor's office announced today it's chosen software company Acquia, headquartered on State Street, and design firm IDEO of Cambridge to rebuild cityofboston.gov.

Read more.

By adamg - 9/4/15 - 3:59 pm

Children's Hospital is suing a researcher who left the hospital last year, charging he took potentially valuable data related to the development of new drugs when he left for Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Read more.

By adamg - 8/30/15 - 10:13 pm

Shattr is an app, that in addition to lacking the letter E, is aimed at groups of millennials who want to broadcast their groupness to other groups or something. Based on the mini-fliers handed out at BU today, it's aimed at groups of college students who hate Donald Trump.

Via Boston Reddit.

By adamg - 8/21/15 - 9:40 am

The Harvard Gazette reports on work by researchers at the Wyss Institute to build a device to clear toxins that trigger an often fatal inflammatory reaction, in which blood is pumped into a chamber filled with specially treated fibers: Read more.

By Shelagh Dolan - 8/12/15 - 6:30 pm

City Councilor Matt O'Malley (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) today proposed a property-tax exemption for residents who convert their homes to solar power. Read more.

By adamg - 8/10/15 - 7:42 am

The Boston Business Journal reports on the sensor, intended to be implanted during a biopsy. A key issue: How to get power to the thing. Magnets to the rescue.

By adamg - 7/27/15 - 4:25 pm

The Boston Stress Study hopes to outfit large numbers of Bostonians with wearable stress monitors so that it can come up with accurate numbers on just how crazed life is in this never-say-stop 21st-century city - and how that breaks down across professions, locations and, who knows, maybe even T lines.

WBUR's CommonHealth has more on the study, an effort by local startup Neumitra, which, you'll not be surprised to learn, hopes to sell "embedded biomodules to accurately and continuously measure the autonomic nervous system throughout daily life demands."

By adamg - 7/23/15 - 11:22 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports the homegrown insurer has gotten FAA approval to use drones to survey houses and businesses damaged by fires or other disasters rather than sending out adjusters.

By adamg - 7/18/15 - 10:06 am
Snotbot

The Ocean Alliance of Gloucester and Olin College of Needham have teamed up on a drone-based tool for taking vital signs from whales without shooting them with darts from loud motorboats. Read more.

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