Jon Van

Communicating with a cell phone means more to Michael Panitch than just talking. It's also a fashion statement. "The way it works is that the new, cool phones are launched...

Foreshadowing what is now called multimedia, some two generations ago young children sometimes listened to vinyl records while looking at colorful picture books to hear and see a story. More...

Chief executives considering closing U.S. factories and having the work done offshore might want to talk with Joe Charles first. Charles, chief executive of Rolling Meadows-based Charles Industries Ltd., has...

Some remarkable advances in medical treatment can come from the simple measure of giving a surgeon a better view of what he's working on and where. That's the philosophy behind...

While not as imposing as the Y2K problem of the late 1990s, there is another issue in the making for the computer industry: mainframe brain drain. Even though mainframe computers...

As the Internet bubble inflated, the goal at Focal Communications Corp. was to expand as quickly as possible. When the bubble burst, it knocked Focal and most of its peers...

Web designer Leslie Stewart was hard at work Tuesday afternoon--in a coffee shop. Equipped with her laptop and a latte, the Humboldt Park resident was spending a typical day sending...

As the infirmities of age catch up with Baby Boomers, interest in health-care technology is bound to rise. And Intel Corp. senses an opportunity. If re-engineered and repackaged, much available...

The telecom industry is dominated by giants, but there are some tiny players scurrying around who find they can prosper as long as they're nimble enough to keep from getting...

When most people think about nanotechnology, they conjure visions of really tiny robots that could cruise through a person's bloodstream looking for pathogens to fight. One worry, fostered by science...