Any changes in healthcare practice, including the introduction of tests, often requires consideration of their value. Clinical utility is a broad term that is used to denote this usefulness or value ...

There's a wide variety of entities operating our electrical infrastructure. Here's why the difference matters, even if you don't have much of a choice. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011 ...

The Mac Evaluation Utility is an Apple tool most people never experience, but it is very useful for IT teams, making it a lot easier to see what they must do with their existing deployments to bring ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS ...

Marginal utility helps set product pricing; high initial satisfaction decreases with more units. Some stores use bulk pricing when consumers value additional items less. Progressive taxes assume each ...

A utility function measures a consumer’s preference and satisfaction with different goods or services. As part of rational choice theory, it helps economists analyze how consumers make decisions to ...

This is the second of a series of newsletters based on a Server Computing 2004 presentation I gave at CD Expo’s Enterprise IT Week in Las Vegas last month. One of the trends in server computing is ...

A large number of applications hook themselves to the Windows Startup process and load up automatically every time you start your computer. Adobe GC Invoker Utility is one such app. A process ...

Energy bills are going up but it's unclear whether cutting dividends going to utility shareholders would drastically lower them. Lawmakers are frustrated with utility companies and state regulators ...