Jon Van

For anyone accustomed to hearing cable companies complain about ever-rising fees for the channels they carry, Comcast Corp.'s bid for the Walt Disney Co. was a moment of truth. Latching...

It may be small potatoes compared to the billions of hamburgers served up by McDonald's over the years, but the people at Research In Motion Ltd. were pleased to report...

Some cell phones already keep track of their location and others soon will as carriers comply with government requirements that wireless networks disclose the whereabouts of people who dial 911....

Argonne National Laboratory researchers are closing in on a technology to collect hydrogen cheaply so it could be used to power automobiles. Fuel cell technology that converts hydrogen to electricity...

A development that just might revolutionize the computer chip scene was announced this week by two engineering professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It's the creation of a...

When a laptop or hand-held computer is lost or stolen, the owner usually laments at first the loss in terms of the machine's replacement cost and then the hassle of...

Social networking, the Internet rage that's helping fuel Howard Dean's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, has been around for longer than the current buzz might suggest. Most of the...

One problem with medical technology is that it often is good enough to find something troubling but not good enough to tell what it means. Using various imaging devices, for...

Breaking up a voice phone call into packets and moving it over a network--the way e-mail and other data move--is far more efficient than dedicating a whole connection exclusively to...

Medicine is still a long way from the "Star Trek"-style technology whereby a physician can just wave a wand over a patient to glean a full diagnosis, but research keeps...