After a major earthquake or flood, people need help but can be hard to find. A new technique--using tracking data from phones to figure out where people have fled to--could make it easier to get them help.READ»
You thought you weren't supposed to use your phone while driving. But Israeli startup Picitup uses augmented reality to warn you of dangers on the road ahead.READ»
It was barely a month ago that American Express launched its futuristic mobile payments system Serve. Now it's already moving to reinforce it by investing in a small firm that makes mobile transactions cheaper and more secure.READ»
America's reigning industrial-design star Yves Béhar has unveiled a sleek new cell phone, which does something unheard of in the electronics industry today: It's designed to last.
As Béhar tells next month's issue of Fast Company ...READ»
Sprint is integrating Google's Voice digital telephony protocol into its cell phone network offerings. Did Google just insert an important crack in the cell phone industry that it'll lever open later?READ»
Like a collaborative 311, SeeClickFix connects citizens to city hall -- and one another -- with a few simple clicks. The system is now thriving in thousands of communities. Here's how it works.READ»
Nokia's business may not be circling the drain hole, but it is in the toilet despite positive spin around its recent finances. How can the company be saved? A former exec knows: by flushing its middle management.READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation was doing great things--including delivering your BBC iPlayer-read iPad a day early if you live in Europe. Hurrah!
1. Open memo to Hollywood studios. If you're going to kvetch about piracy, then ...READ»
Hewlett-Packard Co. signed an agreement to buy struggling smart phone maker Palm Inc. for a reported $1 billion in cash. HP pay $5.70 for every Palm common share. Palm had closed trading Wednesday at ...READ»
Omar Hamoui, Admob's founder and CEO, shows us how the mobile Internet space is changing and why his company is growing fast. He gives us a demo of an ad buy and just how many people can be reached in a quick order. Also tells us how ...READ»
Here at Fast Company we're playing with cell phone video as part of our FastCompany.TV channel. Right now we're using a Nokia N95 cell phone and broadcasting live video to an audience over on Http://www.qik.com but Qik isn't the only ...READ»
At Fast Company we’re using AT&T’s 3G network to do our FastCompanyLive interviews on a Nokia cell phone. Here’s AT&T’s CTO, John Donovan, to bring us up to date on the state of the art of its wireless network for cell phone ...READ»
The story of Bluepulse is pretty amazing. Started in Australia, now located in YouTube's former offices, this social network for mobile users is hot and here you meet Ben Keighran, CEO, and his team who are dealing with scaling up ...READ»
The iPhone, despite all the attention, is only a small part of how mobile is changing our work lives. Google's mobile team has some ideas of their own. Sumit Agarwal, product manager, will demonstrate to us all sorts of fun ways to ...READ»
Gettin' QWERTY With It: At last week's LG Mobile Worldcup, 26 texters from 13 countries raced against the clock--and each other--for bragging rights and a $100,000 grand prize.READ»
Everybody likes to be entertained, and jazzing up marketing project proposals or sales presentations with graphics, a little video or a multi-media presentation can help keep an audience’s attention. Flashy graphics however, won't ...READ»
Since time immemorial, gadget buyers have been discarding their most prized gizmos for newer, thinner, sleeker gizmos, often at the expense of practicality, durability, and stupendous amounts of money. But in the last few years, ...READ»
