Quoted: New tools are being developed that may help harried patients monitor their medications, home tests and other details. This is part of a shift toward a medical system that is more centered on and directed by patients themselves.

First, however, patients will have to become comfortable placing medical data like readings from home tests online...such programs are still under development, and all of this remains to be seen.

A nice historical retelling of the Amazon and Ebay stores and their relative successes and failures.

Quoted: Revolution Health has inked a deal to merge with one of the largest online health companies in the world, with a network of more than 20 sites. The deal, estimated to be worth $300 million, joins together Revolution and Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Waterfront Media -- the second- and third-largest purveyors on online health information -- in a bid to compete with the acknowledged front-runner, WebMD.

Quoted: THE idea of wirelessly streaming the music collection on the computer to the stereo system usually comes after one (or both) of these realizations: “Gee, this album I just downloaded would really sound much better coming through my impressively large and expensive speakers in the living room,” or “This apartment is too small for huge piles of cracked CD jewel boxes.”

With some many options for broadcasting your favorite playlist or Internet radio feed, it can get confusing as to what you actually need.

I love Pandora...ling live Pandora!

Quoted: Today the otherwise preoccupied Senate quickly passed the Webcaster Settlement Act many of you petitioned for, granting Pandora and other net radio services the right ...

Poor Stallman. He's just clueless about the real world.

Quoted: The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software.

Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.

"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian.

Quoted: Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13-million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.

Quoted: 217 million people worldwide play online games, according to new figures released by comScore. The study took into account all sites that provide ...

Things to know about selling wine.