Jon Van

With fuel prices soaring and airlines struggling to make money, an engineering professor's discovery may attract some interest. Warren Phillips, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Utah State...

For most of us who exchange e-mails, check the weather or make purchases through the Internet, the Web's worldwide aspect may not have much significance. But for Dr. Shankar Man...

As spam floods e-mail, you may wonder whether the note you sent got through, or if it was swept away in a grand deletion of financial pleas from Africa or...

When it comes to the Internet, Jon Darmstadter is a real control freak. He controls things so tightly that among the tens of millions of Web sites available, his online...

Overcoming the obstacles I'm the first to admit there are plenty of pitfalls in biking to work--I forget to bring critical pieces of clothing, or it's sunny in the morning...

William Daley, the Democratic powerbroker who surprised political insiders when he jumped into the phone business three years ago, jumped out Friday. Daley, a former Clinton administration Cabinet member and...

As telecom services proliferate, a new generation of consulting firms has sprung up to help businesses sort out the choices. One is Schaumburg's ISI Telemanagement Solutions Inc. ISI had been...

You could do worse than to seek financial advice from a machine. A lot of people have. Sageworks Inc., a company based in Raleigh, N.C., uses artificial intelligence to create...

Domestic sales of solar ovens have jumped almost 400 percent in the last month, according to an Illinois firm that makes the energy friendly appliance. "It's probably the rise in...