Open software allows users to communicate if Internet shuts down. March 8, 2013— -- With recent debates over openness on the Internet, and the emerging concept that you might not have the right ...

If the community helped him raise the $85,000 he needed to run fiber optic cables and pay for the service for TechPad, he promised to create a free wireless network that anyone could use. He reached ...

Gordon Hamachi, a software developer who lives in Mountain View, Calif., just started using the new free wireless computer network that Google has launched to cover the entire city. Hamachi, 51, said ...

When the pandemic hit the Philadelphia region in 2020, the city’s existing digital divide issues became impossible to ignore. Thousands more people relied on internet in their homes for the work and ...