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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Apple Wins Patent Skirmish With HTC.
Read More »Alaska lawmaker strikes at TSA in unusual ad
An Alaska lawmaker this week is appearing in an unusual television ad warning travelers that full-body scanners will enable airport screeners to "see through your clothes," and advising passengers they can instead opt for a pat-down.
Read More »Eric Litman Of Medialets Helps Brands Go Big With Mobile Ads
Medialets chairman and CEO Eric Litman's first job was as a barker on the main street in St.
Read More »3 Ways Google’s Majel May Out-Chat Apple’s Siri (And 1 Big Way It Could Remain Speechless)
Siri is amazing .
Read More »Muslim religious leaders sue airlines
Two Islamic religious leaders from Tennessee filed a lawsuit against two airlines Monday, claiming they were discriminated against and not allowed to fly on a plane in May because of the way they looked.
Read More »Sunreef Yachts’ Newest Catamarans
Polish catamaran builder Sunreef Yachts has a pair of new semicustom models on the drawing board. The first, the 60 Sunreef Power, is currently under construction and scheduled to launch in May; while the second, the Sunreef 75 Ultimate catamaran, was just announced in November as a concept and will ...
Read More »WideaLab’s Aurender S10 Music Server: Smooth and Easy
When it comes to easy operation, WideaLab’s handsome, one-piece Aurender S10 music storage and playback system is among the leaders in the field.
Read More »The Saudi Prince And The $300 Million Twitter Investment
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia announced a $300 million investment in Twitter today. Alwaleed is one of several mega-investors to have pumped serious cash into Twitter in 2011; however, there are fears Alwaleed will censor Twitter
Read More »Sexy Santa In Demand As Laptop Nation Takes To The Officeless Holiday Office Party
It may sound like an existential koan--how does one without an office attend an office party?--but in an increasingly freelance, telecommuting world, for many people this is actually a very real consideration.
Read More »Sexy Santa In Demand As Laptop Nation Takes To The Officeless Holiday Office Party
It may sound like an existential koan--how does one without an office attend an office party?--but in an increasingly freelance, telecommuting world, for many people this is actually a very real consideration. Now, pass the punch and let the mistletoe dangle. On a recent evening in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, a group of revelers gathered to partake in a tradition as old as desks: The office holiday party.
Read More »Beyond SOPA: Rep. Darrell Issa’s Big Plans For Digitizing Democracy
Over the past six months, Issa's launched an interactive subcommittee livestream, produced a new form of online polling, and sponsored a bill to make government spending trackable. Engineer and congressional Republican firebrand Darrell Issa is leveraging his supporters' collective outrage against a contentious anti-piracy bill , SOPA, to showcase his new experimental crowdsourcing legislative platform.
Read More »One Kings Lane’s Doug Mack Makes Every Home A Castle
If logic had anything to do with it, One Kings Lane , the online shop with daily deals on luxe home furnishings, wouldn’t have made it beyond a friendly conversation about the dearth of destinations to shop for décor between founders Alison Pincus and Susan Feldman. In 2009, U.S. home prices were in free-fall and foreclosures hit record highs as delinquent loans piled up
Read More »Sony’s Quest To Conquer Mobile Continues With PlayStation Vita
With the Japanese launch of Sony's new handheld gaming device PlayStation Vita this weekend, the company is hoping to outplay not only the Nintendo 3DS, but also smartphones and tablets. We spoke with Sony's director of hardware marketing John Koller about how Vita can compete in the brave new portable world.
Read More »Behind the Scenes of an Overhyped Launch
Mobeam, a start-up partnering with P&G on digital coupon scanning technology, made a big announcement.
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