Jon Van

Americans have always been inventive, but only lately has our fixation with patents grown to toxic proportions, according to a new study from the National Research Council. Compared to previous...

Mention Sarbanes-Oxley to most folks in business, and you're likely to get an earful about how difficult and costly compliance is. The government's response to corporate chicanery is hardly popular,...

Radio frequency identification chips embedded in packaging labels to transmit information when queried by a scanner is likely to be the next big thing for information technology. The technology, known...

The captioned telephone may be a new alternative for people with serious hearing problems. The service is designed for people who lose their hearing as adults after acquiring normal speaking...

Because cell phone companies in the United States use several operating systems that are incompatible with each other, it is usually necessary to buy a new phone when you change...

The stampede into Internet telephony this year rivals a time more than a decade ago when hundreds of entrepreneurs jumped into the long-distance business. In the late '80s many people...

Few people live with the technology they promote as closely as Craig Cotton. Cotton, manager for marketing Internet telephony products for Cisco Systems Inc., sometimes can be found in his...

Getting a phone call from a robot is common these days. Peapod Inc., the Skokie-based online grocer, for instance, arranges for customers to get automated notification when weather problems will...

A Mundelein technology firm is adding anti-terrorism to its roster and will begin marketing equipment that can detect and destroy biotoxins. "It's a new market, one that's a moving target,"...