MasterCard is finally pushing chip-and-PIN credit cards in the U.S. around a decade after the tech took off in Europe. It's the end of the magnetic strip, and the last gasp for your plastic credit card before the revolution comes.READ»
Starting today, the app from 1000memories lets users conveniently start digitizing the world's 4 trillion paper snapshots and slapping them on Facebook. Genealogy freaks, swoon. READ»
Later today Apple will reveal its first financial report for 2012. It's expected to be--as usual--all about growth. But how about some Apple television news?READ»
Tablet users spend over 50% more per purchase at online retailers when compared with smartphone visitors, and 20% more when compared with traditional laptop and desktop visitors, according to a study that Adobe released today.READ»
Instagram is one of the most popular apps on the iPhone. The photo-sharing service, which lets users snap pictures and spruce them up with one-click filters, has rocketed to 15 million users on the iPhone. Could Windows Phone 7 be next?READ»
Apple has a press event tomorrow--and not on the West Coast, but in New York City. It's something different. Something new. Something, we think, to do with education, textbooks, and major disruption. Will school ever be the same?READ»
Last week, an Indian hacker crew successfully broke into a secured Indian military government network. The group posted documents that infer Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion gave the Indian government backdoor access to their devices in exchange for mobile phone market rights. Are the docs forgeries or real?READ»
Pandora's Tim Westergren and MOG's David Hyman agree that automobiles are slow, fractured, and generally a pain the tailpipe for web-powered services like theirs. And yet there's nowhere they'd rather be. Here's why.READ»
As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drumbeating. We predict a lot of stuff around here. Sometimes we're wrong. But we also nailed a few things this year. Let's talk about shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and ... RIM's big failures...READ»
There have been some newsworthy failures over the last couple of years in the photo-sharing field, and Facebook has pretty much replaced the need for stand-alone sharing apps. But after years of waiting, there's finally an app worth using.READ»
A week after launching the app, Flipboard's racked up a million downloads and tripled their engagement (measured in "flips per month"). "Every industry, every type of business we think about needs to be fundamentally reinvented in the face of social," cofounder Evan Doll tells us.READ»
On the heels of FlipBoard's iPhone app, today personalized e-magazine Zite expands from the iPad to the iPhone, as well. The move by the nine-month-old startup, which CNN acquired in September for $20 million, demonstrates just how competitive the mobile aggregation space has become.READ»
At universities, educational software largely means enterprise-scale, expensive, feature-stuffed "learning management systems." Blackboard has the majority of the market, but professors and students are about as enthusiastic about its ...READ»
