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Project Management Company Software Delivers Low-Stress Project Proposals

Creating project proposals for a potential new client is a task that requires a considerable amount of knowledge to accurately estimate the timelines, resources and activities required to meet the goals of a finished project. Project ...READ MORE›

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 MORE›

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 MORE›

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Abusing Social Media

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

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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 MORE›

Not So Fast: The Breakup

Why users are calling it quits with traditional software.READ MORE›

How to Fix the Web

The online world isn't always user-friendly. But it easily could be. READ MORE›

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Straight to Video

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

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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 MORE›

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 MORE›

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 MORE›

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 MORE›

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 MORE›

Word Constellations

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

Something Phish-y

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

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 MORE›

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 MORE›

A Little Help from Your Friends

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

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 MORE›

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 MORE›