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U.K. satellite provider BSkyB could show its counterparts across the pond a thing or two. While U.S. cable and satellite operators were gingerly stepping into the TV Everywhere market, Sky was making full live TV broadcasts available for streaming online. Recent moves to increase the amount of streaming content, and even to make it available to non-subscribers, could provide a blueprint for [...]

It’s often said that the rise of mobile devices means that many people are now “always on.” But it turns out there are definite times when people are more plugged in than others. And if you’re a mobile app advertiser, the more information you have about when people are really paying attention to their mobile content, the better. To that end, real-time bidding mobile ad [...]

The iPad may help electronic medical records (EMR, sometimes also referred to as electronic health records, or EHR) finally gain wide adoption, thanks in part to a new program that will see the federal government dispersing grants to doctors who make use of a free native EMR iPad app. Drchrono announced Thursday that doctors who use their EMR app to store and track patient data will receive up to [...]

After upgrading to Lion on my early 2008 15″ MacBook Pro, I started to notice that the computer was hot to the touch. Really hot. So I started measuring the internal temperature of my Macs to see if there was anything to be truly alarmed about. It turns out that Mac Intel chips have a built-in feature called THERMTRIP that will temporarily suspend the CPU when things get hot, and shut down [...]

TaskRabbit CEO Leah Busque TaskRabbit, the online marketplace that allows people to outsource errands and other jobs, has debuted its first mobile application for use on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch devices. The TaskRabbit app will be available in the Apple App Store starting on Thursday. I’ve been playing around with a preview version of the TaskRabbit app for the past couple days, [...]