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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas & PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vapor IO and VMware today announced the Open Grid Alliance (OGA), an industry alliance that will define and accelerate the Open Grid, an ...

NAPERVILLE, IL--(Marketwired - Nov 12, 2014) - A new connected outlet that integrates with Apple HomeKit is now available for pre-order from Grid Connect. The ConnectSense Smart Outlet features two ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands --The Matrix may be the future of virtual reality, but researchers say the Grid is the future of collaborative problem-solving. More than 400 scientists gathered at the Global ...

Last year, Princeton researchers identified a disturbing security flaw in which hackers could someday exploit internet-connected appliances to wreak havoc on the electrical grid. Now, the same ...

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 ...

On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able ...