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»

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• 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
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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»

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»