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How to Search Smarter

Surfing the Net is like riding a rogue wave -- you never know where the search engine is going to take you.READ»

Apple's Snow Leopard Is an Unlikely Green Beast

Apple's Snow Leopard upgrade to OS X has many subtle behind the scenes powers that assure it'll remain cutting edge for a good while, but it also seems to have unexpected green skills: It could save the world 50GigaWatts of ...READ»

Camera Shy

Now that everyone and their brother seems to be in possession of a camera phone, CNET reports that some high tech companies bar their use in R&D areas, lest their new designs be compromised. Enter the UK's Iceberg Systems and their ...READ»

Death of the Imperial CEO

This month, Chief Executive magazine features the Rise of the New Breed of CEO, which includes Harry Kreamer, CEO of Baxter International, whom we profiled back in November. In a related light, Karen Southwick over at CNET asks Can ...READ»

Social Media Opportunities and Challenges: The Big Picture

Chris Shipley is the executive director of BlogOn, as well as the cofounder and editorial director of the Guidewire Group. Tony Perkins created and serves as editor in chief of AlwaysOn. Bill Schreiner is VP of community programming ...READ»

Would You Feel Safe Driving Across a Recycled Plastic Bridge?

Bridge safety has been a hot topic lately, mainly because of the recent Bay Bridge nightmare that saw a cracked load-bearing beam come crashing down onto rush-hour traffic. But amidst all the news of unstable steel beams, the U.S. ...READ»

My Favorite Bookmarks - Christopher Barr

Picks from the Editor-in-Chief of CNET.READ»

The Top 10 Gadget Sites

Ever since Facebook opened up its application service to third-party developers, the site has been littered with applications; some great, some good, some bad, and some really, really bad. READ»

• Top 10 Gadget Sites
• 10 Web 2.0 Failures

Rating the Raters

These three sites are full of reviews and recommendations. This guide will help you decide where to go for guidance.READ»

My Favorite Bookmarks - Bill Greer

Picks from the founder and vice president for GORP.READ»

Sleeping with the Enemy

Business, like politics, makes strange bedfellows. Sometimes your rival is your spouse. What to do when a power couple means powerful competition.READ»

Lemnis Lighting Unveils First Household Dimmable LED Bulb

Price remains a major barrier for potential LED bulb consumers, but Lemnis Lighting's new six-watt dimmable LED has at least made the switch from incandescents a little sexier. The six watt Pharox60 bulb is 90% more energy-efficient ...READ»

Mission: Impossible III

People to watch.READ»

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New Rules for Wikipedia?

CNET reported on Friday that Wikipedia, the massive user-collaborated online encyclopedia, is planning on imposing stricter editorial rules and "freezing" pages that contain stable, undisputed content. This move stems from founder ...READ»

Navy's Future Command Center Looks Just Like the Star Trek Enterprise

A research lab inside the U.S. Navy tasked with dreaming up the future of the armed force has been busy working on a new command center design. It's suitably high tech--and is undeniably influenced by Star Trek.READ»

DOE Gives $151 Million Boost to Early-Stage Green Tech

The Obama administration has been good to the renewable energy industry, with the Department of Energy announcing in July that it will give up to $30 billion in loan guarantees to renewable energy projects. Now the DOE is going out ...READ»

See What I Mean: The Power of Visual Learning

If you remember the Magic Eye fad then you probably recall the rush you felt when a 3D picture first popped into view. When you saw the image with your own eyes, suddenly you overcame any disbelief you’d held up until then. Learning ...READ»

All the News That's Fit to Click

Here's Fast Company's analysis of five popular Web-based news sites.READ»

Better than Smart Meters: TalkingPlug Monitors Power Use and Controls Appliances

For those of us who don't yet have smart meters, smart electrical sockets might be the next best thing. Sure, power-monitoring plugs are nothing new, and devices like the Ted 5000 and AlertMe already let customers attach hardware to ...READ»

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EcoATM Pays Cash for Your Old Cell Phones

Until now there have been limited options for recycling old cell phones--send it back to the manufacturer, send it to one of a number of Web sites that offer cash for your used electronics, or go to the cell-phone store and hand it ...READ»

How To Make Electricity From Waste Onion Juice

Onion juice can do more than just make us sob; it can also be used for electricity. Gills Onions, a California wholesale producer of sliced, diced, slivered and puréed onions, introduced a system today to turn its 300,000 ...READ»

Where They Are Now

Fast Company readers asked us to help track down once-prominent business leaders and innovators who have largely fallen off the business radar. Here's what the Fast Company team discovered about the now-old New Economy luminaries.READ»

Facebook and Twitter Attacks Were Political, and Personal

The attacks that took Facebook and Twitter offline had a bizarre, and disturbing twist: They were aimed at a single user's web presence.READ»