Being off-grid doesn't have to mean being offline. There are more options for pulling broadband from the sky than ever before. I’ve been living off-grid for almost half a decade, but I haven’t had to ...

Cisco, whose hardware is at the core of the Internet, is readying communications gear for utilities, businesses, and consumers to modernize the electricity grid. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

“A cellular hotspot is an easy way to get through a day or two of internet outages, but if the outage is widespread, then ...

Off-grid living is often associated with survivalists or doomsday preppers, but this stereotype overlooks the diverse ...

Advanced internet technologies, energy management and the smart grid are coming together in an unlikely location: a mid-sized city in the South. Chattanooga, Tennessee, utility EPB hit two milestones ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of the Internet, which originally linked universities and laboratories around the United States as an outgrowth of a Department of Defense project ...

Can a small UK-based technology company help kick start the mobile internet revolution in those areas of the developing world that have yet to be connected to an electricity supply?. Daniel Becerra, ...

A group of computer enthusiasts have begun working on creating a satellite network that could be used to thwart censorship on the Internet. Called the “Hackerspace Global Grid” (HGG), the network ...

Editor’s note: Robin Chase thinks a lot about transportation and the internet, and how to link them. She connected them when she founded Zipcar, and she wants to do it again by making our electric ...