In the January issue, Chuck Salter examined the many ways telephone calls can be monitored -- and the many reasons why. Companies such as NICE can analyze call recordings to learn which competitors are stealing customers -- and which ...READ»
Video game maker Electronic Arts, which Chuck Salter revisits in our December issue, is now hiring in Canada. And the billboards they're using to advertise openings is a wonderful example of communicating direct to your target ...READ»
Late last year, Chuck Salter examined the meaning behind the inflatable union rat that's become a common sight at picket lines and labor protests. The rat will make another appearance today in Boston as newspaper workers challenge ...READ»
When my father was a kid, his family had the first television on the block. Neighbors would come by just to watch the transmission signal. I was reminded of this family lore by Sony exec Steve Haber's comments about e-books in the ...READ»
Social media is going to change the health-care industry just as radically as it changed entertainment, finance, and publishing. I know this to be true not because of any insider info or the research backing Chuck Salter's ...READ»
This Month's Cover Story:Hollywood's Rogue Mogul: How Terminator Director McG Is Blowing Up the Movie Business, by Mark Borden, page 54
How the director known as McG, a master of music videos and guilty-pleasure TV, became a ...READ»
"Does this outfit still work?" That's a question I ask my wife way too often, after I pull out an older garment from my closet or drawer. Bell-bottom pants. Skinny ties. Pleated anything. Clothing goes in and out of style, rising in ...READ»
Another of this year's Fast 50 winners is making headlines. Anthony Atala, written up by FC writer Chuck Salter last month, is attracting international attention today with the announcement that his university team has successfully ...READ»
I was safely here in Boston when the lights went out everywhere else in the Northeast, probably the one time Boston didn't find a way to join in any regional problem.
Fast Company senior writer and FC Now contributor Chuck Salter ...READ»
A recent entry in FC Now reader Earl Gray's blog Skunkworks offers an interesting corollary to Chuck Salter's recent FC Now entry Project Dysfunction.
Gray deconstructs last week's episode of The Restaurant, analyzing the ...READ»
Last night the 2008 Dyson Product Design Awards were handed out in New York City. (Yes, that’s Dyson as in Sir James Dyson, TV’s most pretentious vacuum peddler.)
These prizes are awarded annually for inventions that ...READ»
JetBlue today announced that its third-quarter earnings fell 71 percent because of hurricanes and fuel and ticket prices. It seems that the startup airline is already facing the problems of the bigs as it tries to join their ranks. ...READ»
“Anger and frustration are great starting points” for product design, James Dyson, inventor of the eponymous vacuum cleaner, told Fast Company’s Chuck Salter in an interview last spring. At the time, Dyson, who’s famously ...READ»
Peter Yang
After majoring in journalism at the University of Texas, Yang spent four years at a newspaper in Austin. “It was a great experience shooting three assignments a day,” the 29-year-old photographer says. ...READ»
