Jon Van

Each year tens of thousands of hospital patients are given the wrong medicine or the wrong dose, and thousands of them die. It turns out that information technology could prevent...

Some executives who spent years in the disaster recovery business operated by Rosemont-based Comdisco Inc. have ventured out on their own, hoping to meet a new demand in the field....

New laser light tools can manipulate tiny pieces of matter in ways never before possible, a University of Chicago researcher revealed to a meeting of physicists Wednesday. A Chicago firm...

Most analysts say the wireless phone industry suffers from so much competition that profits suffer and the industry needs to consolidate. Consumer advocates disagree. Anytime a wireless customer wants to...

An irony of modern life is that physicians who regularly embrace new technologies to facilitate diagnosis and healing are slow to adopt the latest forms of information technology, such as...

The Internet is an entity without borders, but for telephone purposes, it is considered a country unto itself. The International Telecommunications Union has assigned the Internet its own country code--87810--to...

Buying ink jet or toner cartridges to replace those that come with a computer printer is guaranteed to induce sticker shock. It can easily cost $80 to replace the two...

A new player suited up and took the field for the Illinois Commerce Commission this week as Lula Ford was sent in by Gov. Rod Blagojevich to replace Terry Harvill,...

The cheap and reliable semiconductor lasers critical to DVD players, bar code readers and scores of other devices owe their existence in some small way to the demanding workload thrust...

Rigging computer networks so they can diagnose and treat their own problems presents a technical challenge, but perhaps the biggest hurdle is sociological, a Chicago software maven has found. As...