Like too many guests at a cocktail party, wireless devices can’t talk to each other because of all the chatter.

Inside an old copper-screened cage in the basement of a building at the Illinois Institute of Technology, two students are working on identifying and solving some of the problems of the interfering wireless electronic chatter.

Grand Theft Auto IV’s virtual city is a haven for prostitution, drug use and murder.

Nico Bellic, the game’s main character, is an Eastern European immigrant who adopts a life of crime after arriving in America. He steals cars, runs drugs and hires strippers. He kills civilians and police officers.

He is no role model.

Yet millions of law-abiding citizens will spend countless hours moving him through Liberty City, the game’s New Yorkesque landscape.

You are in bumper-to-bumper traffic with a suddenly sick child in the back seat, You take the next exit but don't know the route through unfamiliar streets to get to a hospital.

Chicago Public Schools could be flooded in laptops with Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn's unconventional plunge into City Hall.

Quinn said he will meet with Mayor Daley's chief of staff, Lori Healey, on Friday to discuss Quinn's proposed Children's Low-Cost Laptop Ordinance. He submitted the ordinance to the City Council earlier this week.