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2008 Gift Guide Central

The coolest tech gadgets, video games, designer-inspired widgets, business books, office gifts, and even gifts under $25.

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18 Must-Have iPhone Apps

Here are 18 applications, web-based and software alike, that will help you make the most of your iPhone.

2008 Wasn't the Year of the Woman

It's astonishing that as one of the most progressive countries in the world we still can't get the female leadership thing right.

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Cool Gifts: Freehands Gloves for Gadget Lovers

POSTED BY Lynne d Johnson8:00 AM ET

We've got all of your wishlist and gift-giving needs covered at Fast Company's Gift Guide Central, but here's one of my personal favorites that didn't make the list.

SLIDESHOWTech Gear of the Year
SLIDESHOW20 Gifts Under $25

EXPERT BLOG: MANAGE BY DESIGNING

Can We Afford Design During a Downturn?

POSTED BY Fred Collopy8:00 AM ET

I have been asked several times of late whether managers (and management students) should be expected to invest in design and design thinking during an economic downturn. There are at least two kinds of answers to this ...

STAFF BLOG: DIGITAL MEDIA DIVA

Cool Gifts: E-ZCHARGE - A Lo-Tech Solution for Hi-Tech Gear

POSTED BY Lynne d Johnson

We've got all of your wishlist and gift-giving needs covered at Fast Company's Gift Guide Central, but here's one of my personal favorites that didn't make the list.

SLIDESHOWSecret Santa's Little Helper
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EXPERT BLOG: THE WORLDLY INVESTOR, DAVID S. WADDELL

Thanksgiving Week Roundup: Markets and The Economy

POSTED BY David S. Waddell

Friday, November 28, 2008 In a shortened week that received absolutely dismal economic news, Washington awoke from its most recent policy slumber and made real progress in the War on Scarcity. President-elect Obama must be ...

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Tech Gear of the Year

BY Chris Dannen

Smartphones, flat-screens, robots, green tech: We wade through it all to ID the coolest innovations, including Sony's absurdly svelte, impressively vibrant XEL01 TV screen and the newly customizable Flip Mino video camera.

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Is The New MacBook Green? Ask Greenpeace.

POSTED BY Danielle Sacks

We know the drill by now: every few months Apple rolls out some new iPod model, seducing us to trash our still-shiny-perfectly-brand-new one. We tend to think of this as progressive design. However, these days progressive design must ...

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Secret Santa's Little Helper

BY Sara D. Anderson

Put your office mates to shame or gift yourself a newly tricked-out office with this drool-worthy work gear, from an Ettore Sottsass Bacterio etched business-card case to Logitech's sexy wireless diNovo Edge Keyboard.