John Lux

While Bill and his team of lawyers maintain that Internet Explorer is integral to the operation of Windows 98 and the two can't be separated, not everyone agrees. O'Reilly &...

Sprint's announcement last week of its proposed new broadband-over-copper-wires services got the kind of media play that press agents dream of. "Sprint unveils leap in service" was a typical headline...

The irrepressible Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist for Apple Computer, has a new business, garage.com, aimed at nurturing technology startups. In the first stage of the business, unveiled in mid-May,...

Cellular phone service is a hotly competitive commodity these days, and companies try to outdo each other with offers of free minutes and free add-on services. One of the perks...

A new world view A German software company has done an odd thing on the World Wide Web: It's put up a useful site that costs nothing to access and...

Waste Management Inc. received a three-year contract to transfer and dispose of 1,750 tons of waste per day from New York City's Bronx borough for an undisclosed sum. The Oak...

Japan will not publicly apologize to St. Paul-based Northwest Airlines for criticizing the American carrier's maintenance record. The Japanese Ministry of Transport asked U.S. aviation officials in March to tell...

Allstate Corp.'s Deerbrook Insurance Co. unit will begin offering non-standard auto insurance in Wisconsin. Allstate, of Northbrook, said Deerbrook will offer automobile insurance to drivers with accidents or violations on...

It's odd that a neighborhood like North Michigan Avenue, where thousands of office workers and shoppers get hungry every day, has so few interesting restaurants that don't cost a bundle....

The e-mail addresses you found in Monday's Newsmakers would have worked fine had they included the @ character, or "at sign." Technology sometimes gets ahead of itself, and our wire...