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Amazon Inks Deal With Viacom, Sprint Announces iPhone-led Q4 Highs And Lows, Japan Targets 30% Cut In Rare Earth Use

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.READ»

Organize Your iPhone Or Android Home Screen For Smarter Daily Use

If you think you’re tapping, swiping, and sighing over your phone more than you need to, you’re probably right.READ»

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Touches On Kindle Fire, Android, Windows Phone

Offering a rare peek inside the famously secretive company, Apple's earnings are watched by every industry analyst and news outlet--and even live blogged in some instances, like a worldwide sporting event.READ»

Introducing The Juicebox: A Simple, Sexy Smartphone Charging Station

The Juicebox is an elegant mobile phone charging station that lets users juice up their iPhones, Androids, or BlackBerries in public venues. READ»

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There's An App For That App

In a booming app economy come apps made for helping you develop and test apps, just as apps get more important. Read on for hot app-on-app action!READ»

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Could Instagram Come To Windows Phone Before Android?

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»

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What's Behind Intel's Expensive Ultrabook Push?

The continuing storm of mobile devices is changing the way people compute on the move and at home--and that's forcing Intel to innovate. READ»

Cars Are Horrible Mobile Tech Devices, So Why Are Pandora, MOG Hitching Rides?

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»

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RIM's Nonsensical Year

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»

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Amazon's Excellent Tablet Adventure

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. Earlier we described how Amazon's tablet plans should unfold to make it a success...READ»

The Memory Glasses: Google's AR-Amped Specs Reveal A Brave, Branded New World

"Star Trek," "Star Wars"...even "Cars 2." All these movies--as well as countless spy films--all featured high-tech eyewear that overlaid rich (targeted, social) info on what the wearer saw. Google wants this to be real. Google Goggles may never mean the same thing again.READ»

Smartphone Winners And Losers This Holiday Season--And In 2012

From iPhones to Androids to RIM (remember RIM?)--a look at who is poised to thrive as we enter the year of the smartphone.READ»

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Apple Wins Piece Of HTC Patent Action, Judge OK's Facebook Class Action

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Twitter 3.0 Has Arrived, Somali Terrorists Launch Twitter Feed, Microsoft And GE Team Up For Health Care IT

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Microsoft Woos Developers To The (Upcoming) Windows Store

To succeed, Microsoft's new app store will need developers to build apps. Microsoft execs tossed out their best pitch yesterday.READ»

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Nintendo 3DS Gets 3-D Video, Verizon Planning Netflix Competitor, Android App Store Hits 10 Billion Downloads

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Spotify, Android, Apple TV, And The New Appathy

Apps with everything, and apps of every flavor--sounds like a recipe for an interesting technological future. But it's also a change that comes with burdens.READ»

Amazon's Kindle Fire Blazed Through An Army Of Androids

The new tablet from Amazon is selling like crazy, and plenty of people are calling it a threat to the iPad. But the real story is how it flipped the script on the many makers of tablets running Google's operating system. Your move, Sony.READ»

Microsoft's Windows Tablets Of Next Year...Or Never

What powerful features will Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablets have for us in 2012? How much more clever will iOS get? The sky seems to be the limit in both cases. Unfortunately, we can't say the same for Microsoft.READ»

Amazon's Fire Kindles A Phone Rumor, Shoots A Missile Into The Smartphone Cold War

As data suggests Google has dropped the ball in the tablet game, rumors swirl that Amazon has more Fires on the way, and may even enter the smartphone game. This will change everything.READ»