Jon Van

A lot of people have been surprised by the meltdown in corporate ethics that gave rise to Enron Corp., WorldCom Inc., Tyco International Ltd. and so on, but not Michael...

Edward Whitacre Jr., the Texan who heads SBC Communications Inc., raised many eyebrows among state utility regulators a few months back when he linked his firm's layoffs of 11,000 employees...

The wireless phone industry is calling this holiday season and hoping Santa will answer and not some Grinch. Fourth-quarter sales are vital to wireless carriers--a lot of people give cell...

For several months now, SBC Ameritech has wished that KPMG Consulting would just go away. Now it has, but not in the way that was hoped. KPMG Consulting was the...

Over the past few weeks the long-awaited customer rebates from SBC Ameritech started showing up as credits on phone bills, but several consumers wonder if they got shortchanged somehow. It...

Among the fallout from last year's terrorist attacks has been pressure on small phone companies to comply with a new legal requirement to provide law officers access to phone conversations...

A quarter of the workers at Andrew Corp. will lose their jobs, the company said Wednesday, further victims of a telecom meltdown that has hammered employees and shareholders alike. The...

Anyone who's ever cooled his heels in a doctor's waiting room might snicker to hear physicians have to wait two or three minutes to dial up digital images on their...

Some day consumers may regularly buy insurance from computers, bypassing agents, and while some do that now, most don't feel comfortable with it, John Dawson has found. So Dawson's company,...

Electronic commerce mavens are launching a new gimmick where they expect to really clean up--Web-enabled washing machines. Some 9,000 laundry appliances will be linked to the Internet in a scheme...