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Facebook Friends The Fuzz, News Corp. Buys Back Shares, Google Offers In NYC

How the FBI, DEA, and ICE scour Facebook, News Corp. buys own shares, Google's Offers deal site hits NYC, Plus may hit 10 million users today, and Steve Ballmer admits Windows Phone failings. This and more surprising/important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ MORE›

Will Flip Cam Founder's New Restaurant The Melt Survive The Cutthroat Grilled Cheese Industry?

Jonathan Kaplan has launched The Melt, a chow chain backed by James Beard award-winning designers, Michelin Star award-winning chefs, kitchen workflow engineers, and millions of dollars from Sequoia Capital. The Flip Cam was pretty awesome, too. How'd that end up?READ MORE›

Cisco Buys a Product-Design Firm, Takes Aim at Consumer Electronics

The networking giant has bought itself a design firm, to shore up its in-house product-development chops.READ MORE›

Cisco Releases Porky New Flip SlideHD Camcorder

Ever since Cisco acquired the makers of the Flip video camera last year, it's been pushing out new versions of its pocket camcorders on a regular basis. The latest variation is the $279.99 Flip SlideHD, which has added a nifty ...READ MORE›

Apple Plays “Cat and Mouse” with Competitors

I was in Istanbul working with a group of technology executives from around the Middle-East/ Africa region and we were talking about the habits of breakthrough strategic thinkers. To get the conversation going, I decided to show a ...READ MORE›

Gadgets of the Decade

Tech innovations that changed the way we read, chat, listen to records, and clean the rug.READ MORE›

Maximize Your Downtime

8 Gadgets to Make Your Business Trip More FunREAD MORE›

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8 Gadgets to Make Your Business Trip More Fun

These tech toys will help maximize the down time during your trip to the next big business conference.READ MORE›

Well, That's the End of Flip: iPods to Get Cameras

There's no hard news on the actual devices themselves yet, but a bunch of Chinese protective cases for the next-gen iPod Touch and Nano reveal they're both getting digital camera units. And that, basically, is the end of the line for ...READ MORE›

Welcoming Guest Blogger Tom Dair: To Design Smart, Keep It Simple

Smart Design is, well, one of the smartest design shops we know. You may not know the firm by name, but you certainly know its products: OXO Good Grips kitchen tools, Hewlett Packard Photo Printers, Ford's "Smart Gauge" for hybrid ...READ MORE›

Why HD? Watch This

If you're like a lot of amateur home-movie buffs, you might have an older camcorder--say, Mini DV--and you're probably debating about whether the upgrade to HD is worth it. A video that's gone viral this week demonstrates the ...READ MORE›

Flip UltraHD Is Pure Digital's Best Pocket Camcorder Yet

There was nothing wrong with regular camcorders--at least it didn't seem that way until Pure Digital released the Flip Ultra. Here was a video recorder that solved every problem that you never really knew you had with other ...READ MORE›

Flip's Ultra HD Camcorder Battles Genius and Kodak for Your Pocket

Just weeks after being purchased by Cisco, Flip appears to be releasing a new device in its hugely successful range of pocket-friendly digital palmcorders. The Ultra HD was purchased at Best Buy for $200 by a fan, who spared no time ...READ MORE›

Cisco Buys Flip Video Cam Maker for $590 Million

Cisco Systems, most commonly associated with business technology infrastructure and networking hardware, is using a chunk of its massive cash reserves to buy Pure Digital Technologies--creators of the highly popular Flip range of ...READ MORE›

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Tech Watch: Cheap Nationwide WiFi

Lots of news stories have been trampled by Election Day coverage, but none more nerdily exciting than Tuesday's FCC decision to open up “white space” – or space in the 700MHz range of the wireless spectrum – for unlicensed wireless use. Imagine a new Bluetooth frequency that could rove hundreds of miles, instead of just a few feet.READ MORE›

RCA Refreshes "Small Wonder" Camcorders to Compete with Flip Cams

With the astounding success of the Flip Ultra, a miniature, bare bones camcorder that retails for under $150, RCA [NASDAQ: VOXX] is feeling pressure to compete. To do that, they're refreshing their line of Small Wonder ...READ MORE›

Will You Flip For Peter Sheahan?

When was the last time you learned something useful from someone a couple of decades younger than you? Overcoming age bias is all in a day's work for Peter Sheahan, a consultant and author of a book about Generation Y. ...READ MORE›