Alex L. Goldfayn

J.P. Anderson, 31 Chicago restaurants editor, Citysearch.com Al Decker, 55 Executive director, security and privacy services EDS, Plano, Texas Valentine's Day is here and you're probably wondering what more you...

Bill Braman, 40 Commodity futures trader, Chicago Board of Trade It can be pretty inconvenient to reposition and locate the proper windows on your computer screen. It also takes time....

Shanda Koeman talked about love, religion and the Internet--all at once. The Chicago Christian High School teacher didn't date much until she signed up--hesitant and skeptical--for a membership on the...

Why did Vanu Bose use his first name to launch his company, Vanu Inc.? "Because my last name was already taken," said the man whose father, Amar, started sound company...

A sampling of products from Chicago-area companies introduced at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show Cobra Electronics Corp., based in Chicago, unveiled a line of mobile global positioning systems that...

A tiny booth stood about three football fields from the entrance to the south hall of last week's International Consumer Electronics Show. It was far from the glamorous exhibits put...

Stephan Wegerich proudly refers to himself as a "double-E"--an electrical engineer. He also proudly serves as his company's--and household's--resident technology buff. Wegerich is the chief scientist at SmartSignal Corp., a...

Rosemarie Rossetti, 50 Inspirational speaker Columbus, Ohio On the weekend of her third wedding anniversary in June 1998, Rosemarie Rossetti was biking a central Ohio trail just ahead of her...

There's a two-story house off Green Street in Urbana where five college guys are loving life. Although "it's not the prettiest house on the block," as one of the roommates,...

It hit them as they walked home after viewing the parade and light displays along Michigan Avenue on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. You see, Francine Olson and her husband, Frank,...