Jon Van

Like just about everyone whose customers are telecom service providers, CommWorks Corp., the wholly owned subsidiary of 3Com Corp., is hurting. Even so, Irfan Ali, the Rolling Meadows-based firm's president,...

One aspect of the next-generation wireless networks that carriers are rolling out is that they offer more billing flexibility. Instead of charging either for minutes used on the network or...

All those offers of gazillions of wireless phone minutes are starting to hurt the wired phone industry. More consumers are making local and long-distance calls on cell phones, even when...

When he talks about the launch of a new generation of wireless data services, Andy Willett can sound downright restrained. As vice president of data services for AT&T Wireless, one...

Kraft Foods Inc. overcame soft sales and weak foreign currencies to once again beat Wall Street profit estimates in the first quarter. And, just maybe, Oreos with two fillings in...

Dozens of telecom companies have gone into bankruptcy and many more are flirting with disaster. But it looks like a golden opportunity to Gregory Ewert, data services vice president at...

Giant telecommunications operations like Deutsche Telekom seldom do things quietly, as when the German powerhouse bought control of VoiceStream, the wireless carrier, a few years back and stirred the ire...

They go by different terms--grid, peer-to-peer and net computing to name a few--but the growing consensus among computer wizards is that networked computing is making a comeback. Since its earliest...

The scoop on what's happening beneath the surface of Illinois is being gathered by college students under the tutelage of geophysicists from the Illinois State Geological Survey. For years the...

Wireless phone customers in Illinois can look for a little something extra in their bills next month--a new charge courtesy of the Illinois legislature. The lawmakers have reinstated a charge...