Technology Tips

10 Ways to Secure Your Laptop

While it might be a temporary inconvenience, a laptop can be easily replaced. It’s the potentially sensitive company data that can seriously hurt you, your business, or your clients and customers, if it falls into the wrong ...READ»

20 Coolest New Products from Top Design Shops

American industrial designers are the secret heroes of the marketplace, finessing products to make them easier to sell better. Here's how five top firms have been busy shaping our world. From Oxo's kitchen tools to the Slingbox, design labs like Whipsaw and Astro Studios are breathing new life into everyday objects.READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Five Top Design Firms Make the Gadgets We Love
• The Vision of John Maeda
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature

Abusing Social Media

How companies abuse tech's latest tools and embarrass themselves.READ»

• 10 Web 2.0 Failures
• 11 of the Worst Facebook Applications

7 Tips for Protecting Your Identity Online

When connecting your computer to the Internet, anti-virus software is an absolute must. Viruses, trojans, worms and other harmful attachments can destroy your computer, and even your life. Threat levels range from spam and pop-up ...READ»

Not So Fast: The Breakup

Why users are calling it quits with traditional software.READ»

Straight to Video

How will you use next-generation Web TV to reinvent your business?READ»

• Office in a Cloud

The Future of Fun

Toasters that forecast the weather, necklaces that fence in wandering children, cell phones that practically sing and dance. A glimpse at the fanciful, freaky gadgets popping up in Hong Kong today that you wish you could find at a local Best Buy.READ»

Technology Tomorrow

How scientists and engineers will transform the way we work and play through bots, artificial intelligence, and Jetsons-inspired gizmos that are limited only by their creators' imagination.READ»

Our Favorite Things

A collection of gadgets, gizmos, and gear treasured by Fast Company staff members. Find out what tools help us work smarter and play harder, and then visit our new online product gallery: Hot Stuff!READ»

Email Habits Die Hard

What does your signature file say about you? Does your email correspondence project the right image? Is a smiley face ever an appropriate salutation?READ»

Calling All Geeks

At the office IT will handle it, but when the home network is down who do you call? These two businesses are on-call, and they don't come cheap.READ»

Word Constellations

This online services takes words off the page -- and makes visual patterns of related terms.READ»

Something Phish-y

Fighting phishing, the online scam that could leave you with a big hole in your pocket.READ»

Time (Zone) Travelers

It's becoming the essential competitive edge: the ability to hopscotch the globe, switching countries, cultures, and languages as easily as the rest of us change clothes. Meet some folks who are really living the borderless life.READ»

The World Is <em>Their</em> R&D Lab

Innovation middlemen try to put inventors and businesses together. It's a way for companies to find great ideas outside their own R&D labs.READ»

A Little Help from Your Friends

Forget online dating. Online business networking is where the really sexy stuff is happening.READ»

Good To Great

Good Technology goes toe to toe with Research in Motion by focusing on the software used by BlackBerry -- not the device.READ»

Best Blog Ever

When Fred Graver, executive producer of VH-1's entertainment news show "Best Week Ever" started planning the program, he didn't turn on the TV for inspiration, he turned to the Web.READ»

Worker, Hack Thyself

Social engineers hack the one part of IT that can't be patched: humans. The best line of defense? Learn how to do it yourself.READ»

Networking Overload

Meet "snam," the junk email generated by social networking.READ»

Post(er) Boy

Robert Scoble, a technical evangelist and active blogger at Microsoft, offers tips and tactics that can help your company thrive and survive on the Web.READ»

It's a Blog World After All

Blogs were once the domain of angst-ridden teens and doomed presidential candidates. But the likes of Verizon, IBM, Microsoft, and Dr. Pepper are all climbing on the blogwagon. Turns out, Web logs are a nifty knowledge-management tool. And companies also see them as a promising medium for advertising (naturally).READ»

Between the Lines: Six Degrees of Competition

The author of Fast Company's social network software Web exclusive takes a look at the complicity -- and competition -- among several company founders.READ»

Tech Support

Four software programs promise to spam-proof your inbox; Gore-Tex guitar strings.READ»

Office Handbook

Chapter 27: Conference CallsREAD»