Innovation doesn't come from producing hardware, software and services that make perfect sense to existing markets and needs. Things move forward when a company is brave enough to engage in what I approvingly refer to as Heroic Stupidity. It's the one ant that wanders off the scent trail that discovers the iPhone, after all.
Nine-year-old Nathan Viola's talent for doodling is getting noticed. The third-grader from Mokena is one of 40 regional winners in a national Doodle 4 Google contest that asked kids to submit their own Google logo and write a short essay.
The "battle lines" are being drawn in the race to provide faster wireless Internet access across Chicago.
Is it possible to really understand what races through the minds of entrepreneurs who slide head first into their businesses?
NEW YORK -- Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday introduced its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to make tools for both work and play.
Sandra Guy: Jean Olson loves to box and prides herself on knocking her opponent out cold. "I've never had boxing lessons but, boy, I like hitting that guy in the nose," she said. Olson is an 87-year-old resident of the Applewood Center in south suburban Matteson, one of two Chicago area nursing homes that use the Wii, Nintendo's popular video game console, for physical rehabilitation. Olson "boxes" by punching her hand in the air and "hitting" an animated character by angling the Wii's controllers.
Andy Ihnatko: If you want your dog to swallow his heartworm pill, you stick it inside a ball of ground beef. The dog probably knows that something's up, but he probably appreciates that you at least met him halfway on this.
