Jon Van

Marty Singer wants to make high-speed wireless connections to the Internet--or Wi-Fi technology--as cheap and easy to use as possible. His Chicago company, PCTEL Inc., is pushing in that direction....

In an effort to win from Illinois lawmakers what state regulators have withheld, SBC Communications Inc. Monday began an aggressive effort to have wholesale phone rates doubled. SBC executives say...

For a lot of non-profit organizations, information technology could be useful in raising money, providing services and streamlining operations. But acquiring the necessary skills and making decisions to use the...

Purdue University engineers have launched an inquiry into the sound generated when the rubber meets the road. The engineers designed a unique apparatus to monitor noise levels when different styles...

The steady but slow consumer march toward high-speed Internet connections might turn into a sprint if the prices drop to about $20 a month, which is close to what dial-up...

The first thing one notices about SBC's emergency operations center is that it looks kind of low tech. Located in a huge room at the Hoffman Estates Midwest headquarters for...

If it works, a new therapy under development at the University of Illinois at Chicago will be revolutionary for people who suffer from strokes, Alzheimer's disease and other neurologic afflictions....

We may use personal computers and live in the Information Age these days, but we'll soon be using interpersonal computers and live in the Connection Age, predicts Ray Ozzie, chief...

Clean rooms--the dust-free environments where computer chips are made--are common enough in industry, but evidently there's always a demand for more. And as nanotechnology and biochip applications proliferate, supplying clean...