How To Use Correlate, Google's New Data-Mining Tool, To Help Your Business
With Google's new Correlate system, companies have a powerful (and, free!) new data-mining tool on their hands. Let us imagine the ways in which we'll use it. With Google's new Correlate system,...
View ArticleAll My Purchases Sorts Wad of E-ceipts From Square Users, Apple Stores, More
A company that started out looking to join the social commerce revolution found an opportunity in simply being useful to people trying to manage email receipts.With the rise of Square's paperless...
View ArticleiFive: Google NFC Plans, Ballmer Must Leave MS, Apple's Secret At WWDC, China...
1. Google's open NFC credit card secret is now confirmed: Launch partners The Container Store and Vivotech accidentally confirmed that the system is on its way in September, will be dubbed Google...
View ArticleThe Skylon: Britain's Bad-Ass Rocketplane And Possible Shuttle Successor
As NASA settles for a tried and trusted solution, Britain's plans for a next-gen Space Shuttle inch forward with the Skylon: A black, future-tech spaceplane that absolutely looks the part.The Skylon...
View ArticleWeb Advertising Hits Record High, Torrents For iPhone, Web Giants Vs. Gov At...
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all dayWeb Ads Hit Record HighIn a sign that this bloody never-ending recession is indeed coming...
View ArticleThe Race For The Most Efficient Server Is Turning Tech Companies Into Power...
Uploading your music to the cloud isn't as simple as you might think. As more data is stored online, the cloud takes more and more energy to maintain, forcing companies to get into the business of...
View ArticleGoogle's NFC-Powered Digital Wallet: Room For Your Shopping Lists, Credit...
Square's gone after the clunky old cash register. Now Google's trying to reinvent how we pay for even more things. It's just revealed Wallet, the first big-name, large scale rollout of NFC wireless...
View ArticleWhat College Degrees Are Really Worth
A new study from Georgetown University breaks down which majors of study result in the highest career earnings. Art majors, ask a friend if you can borrow his computer to read this. Steve Jobs may...
View ArticleIn Savvy PR Move, Amazon Relaunches Gaga Deal...And Dials Up The...
Someone at Amazon must have read our post about how Apple spun the white iPhone 4 fail into a PR win, because it's making a game attempt at turning its Lady Gaga blunder around. The company is...
View ArticleHackers For Egypt Advocate For A Better Democracy Through Technology
Post-revolution Egypt is in a state of flux overlooked by outsiders. New political parties are forming while various factions hustle for power. As Egypt gears up for free elections, tech-savvy geeks...
View ArticleEnvisioning The Omnipresent, Benevolent Internet Of The Future
Lynn St. Amour joins us for our second entry in the Crystal Ballin' series, in which CEOs and thinkers venture to speculate on what lies ahead. In today's edition, we answer the questions: What is the...
View ArticleGel-Suspended Mushrooms Could Save Us From Starvation
If we run out of phosphate fertilizer, it will mean bad things for our future eating. But giving our crops a fungus can help us stretch our supply. The human race has a food problem. Readily available...
View ArticleAmerican Employees Are Staying Put
Are you content with your job? Are you truly happy, and offer to take on extra work? Are you so content that you don't intend to leave anytime soon? If so, you're in good company. An...
View ArticleYour Job Is Why You're Fat
Add boring desk jobs to list of seemingly unavoidable reasons why Americans are gaining weight. Add desk jobs to the myriad reasons--including driving and your mother's pregnancy habits--why Americans...
View ArticleiFive: PayPal Sues Google, Intel Making Peer Chips?, Windows Phone App Price,...
1. No sooner Google reveals Wallet, than a lawsuit about mobile selling pops up. It's from PayPal, complaining that Google's mis-appropriated secrets form inside PayPal's own mobile payments business,...
View ArticleHot Apple Rumor Of The Day: An ARM A5-Powered MacBook
There are whispers from a pretty reliable source that the House of Jobs is testing a MacBook computer powered by one of its own ARM A5 chips, straight from an iPad. It may be the Mac of the future....
View ArticleWhy Best Buy Is Pulling The Plug On (Most) Electric Scooters And Motorcycles
No one is buying them because of charging confusion. Is there a future for electric two-wheelers sold as personal electronics? We proclaimed that electric motorcycles were going mainstream after Best...
View ArticleTeen Who Sold White iPhone Kits Reveals How Apple Hunted Him Down
One of the last followers of tech news to hear the reports Thursday that Apple had sued Fei Lam, the 17-year-old Queens high school student who infamously sold White iPhone conversion kits to eager...
View ArticleInnovation Agents: Dinesh Paliwal, CEO Of Harman
This year, he launched the first social-networking automobile so drivers can get Facebook, Twitter, texts and Internet connectivity and still keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road....
View ArticleMicrosoft's Anti-Apple Move: Debuting A Windows 8-Powered Tablet Next Week
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have misspoken when he said Windows 8 was coming in 2012, but now we hear MS will definitely demo a Windows 8 tablet PC next week. So its anti-Apple plans will get their...
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