Jon Van

For all of its history, Argonne National Laboratory has been a general-purpose operation that fosters research into a wide variety of subjects. Robert Rosner, the lab's new director, thinks that's...

Before most people in the telecom industry ever uttered the word "convergence," Telular Corp. was living it. The Vernon Hills firm began life supplying wireless burglar alarm systems that work...

Bar codes have spawned a next-generation technology that uses radio waves to send information from labels to computers, and it's a very big deal in what's called the supply chain...

When it had a near-monopoly grip on the computer industry, IBM Corp. mostly ignored little software companies. These days Big Blue treats little guys like big shots. At least that...

The federal government, which has done spy-in-the-sky satellite surveillance for years, is looking for something a little more down to earth. People in the military and in homeland security would...

Just when you thought everybody in the country had a cell phone, the industry finds more people to recruit as customers. By the end of last year, the industry estimates,...

When the country's big wireless communications trade show opens in New Orleans this month the task of traffic cop for all the radio signals bouncing around will fall to Comsearch,...

The merger mania gripping the telecom industry has pundits speculating widely about which companies may follow MCI, AT&T, Nextel and the rest down the acquisition highway. BellSouth Corp., the financially...

Back in 1968, when Joe Charles started a phone equipment business out of his basement, he sold stuff mostly to independent phone companies in rural areas and small towns. He...