Jon Healey

Responding to a push from President Obama, three Senate Democrats introduced legislation Thursday to revoke state laws that hinder local governments from getting into the broadband business.

The Supreme Court's ruling last June against Aereo, the online TV viewing service, threatened to undermine consumers' ability to record television shows in the cloud and watch them remotely. But in a key ruling this month, a federal judge in Los Angeles affirmed that consumers had the right...

If there were a zinger scorecard at President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, it would be Obama 2, congressional Republicans 1.

The debate over the net neutrality rules proposed last year by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has made at least two things clear. First, there is broad support for rules that have the same goals as the ones the commission adopted in 2010, which an appeals court threw out...

It looks like at least one major Internet service provider buys into the notion that reclassifying Internet service providers as utilities won't be the end of the world.

Much of geekdom is still waiting with bated breath for the Apple Watch to be released, which should happen early this year. If the product is as big a smash as the iPhone or the iPod, it could turn smartwatches from novelty items into mainstream accessories.

If your child is too young to have a phone, how about a robot?

The nation's top telecom regulator strongly hinted that he plans to propose more rigorous regulations on Internet service providers — setting up a potentially bitter clash with powerful cable television operators and others that offer Internet access.