Jon Van

For all practical purposes, it's illegal for telemarketers to call mobile phones, but it does happen. This summer Verizon Wireless went to court twice after receiving complaints that customers were...

Mobile phones, BlackBerries and other wireless gadgets sort of sneaked up on most businesses. Years ago employees started buying mobile phones, making calls and writing off their expenses each month...

Among diseases, cancer is a big problem. Now Northwestern University scientists are bringing out some really small guns to fight it. This week Northwestern was awarded $3.9 million in federal...

A remarkable amount of money and technological effort is devoted to the proposition that billboard displays ought to have ratings similar to measurements of TV viewing. Pioneering the effort is...

For most of its history, the public phone network was a smart system with sophisticated switches at the center and plain old dumb phones on the edge. That was then....

Eager to prove that e-commerce businesses would be wise to also mail traditional catalogs to customers, the U.S. Postal Service turned to Gian Fulgoni's firm, comScore Networks Inc., to do...

For nearly three decades dialing 911 for emergency help has been a bedrock public service but, like most aspects of technology, nothing is static. Most recently, there has been the...

People use the Internet to buy and sell things, to find blind dates and, yes, they even use it to find organ donors. This summer two patients have received kidneys...

Rick Terrien exudes both humility and enthusiasm when discussing his company's accomplishments. Terrien, president of Universal Separators Inc. in Streator, Ill., addresses problems of contaminated oil and coolant fluids that...

Medicine's laggardly embrace of information technology has many aspects, but as in so many things, it is really a matter of money. Computerizing patient records cost plenty, and while it...