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The company famous for the BlackBerry smartphone and the recent PlayBook tablet is trying to maintain its stronghold on small businesses. RIM is on the ropes

Steve Jobs is out, and Tim Cook is in. It's too early to tell what the future holds, but here's a look at upcoming Apple product launches. With Steve Jobs exiting as Apple CEO, one has to wonder: What does this mean for the tech giant’s near-term product launches?

There's a certain homespun charm to the animated .gif. The beauty lies in the simplicity of these animations: It's easy to make one, and .gifs are far faster to upload, stream, or send than a video file. For the uninitiated, a .gif is simply a looped set of static images, a kind of digital flipbook

Pixable already does a nice job of aggregating your friends photos and videos on Facebook (though you may remember it originally offering photo albums-- real printed ones --based on your social feeds). Now, it's stepping into an even more real-time domain by integrating Twitter into its code.

August is traditionally a slow news month for tech, but with its revised iPhone launch schedule Apple's still turning up plenty of rumors--along with fascinating hints at future Macs. Entirely New Product Line Japanese Mac site Macotakara is predicting Apple's got something surprising up its sleeve for the end of 2011: A completely new Mac product.

Pulse News is a must-have app for Dan Wasyluk, founder and CEO of CollegeBlender. My website aggregates blogs, gossip, and news about college life, so I have to stay abreast of stories that appeal to our audience. As soon as I got my iPad 2 a few months ago, I searched for an app that could help me organize articles on the tablet, and I came across Pulse News.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. UK Goverment Summons Social Networks For Riot Talks . Next Thursday the Home Office will hold a meeting with the top social networks to discuss the recent nationwide riots.

Using strangers for rides has yet to catch on in most places, but a bad economy and high gas prices can make almost anything palatable.

Today, MTV launched the WatchWith iPhone app, a service designed to drive network engagement through social sharing, photos and video, rewards, blog posts, and more. It's part of an aggressive push by the network to capture the " second screen experience ," an industry term used to describe the smartphones and tablets people turn to alongside TV. Distractions from our precious television shows used to be few and far between: the occasional power outage, a knock at the front door or a ring of the downstair's telephone, a parent demanding the plug pulled lest our brains turn to mush

While the tech world focuses on the strategy behind Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, we take a look at what the move means for the way we think about our smartphones, and the way they work. Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility

Architect Gisue Hariri shares the items she can't live without. .caption {color:#666;font-size:12px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} .boxxy {display:inline-block;width:280px;border:none;margin:6px;vertical-align:top;} Photo by Ryan Pfluger To make architectural statements, Gisue Hariri employs digital technology and modern materials--but the Iranian-born architect, who runs the New York firm Hariri & Hariri with her sister Mojgan, looks to ancient sources for inspiration

Facial recognition software has advanced to the point it can cause serious security implications ... and open up a whole new world of powerful tech and clever innovation. This week at the Black Hat security conference researchers from Carnegie Mellon University will demonstrate how facial recognition technology can be used to positively identify a person and possibly even to gain access to their personal information, right down to their social security numbers

A new virus targeting Android-powered smartphones has been uncovered by CA security researcher Dinesh Venkatesan.

Today Adobe is launching a public preview of Edge, its tool for web designers that allows moving, interactive graphics on a website using HTML5, not Flash.

Packed with personal data, and taken with you everywhere, your smartphone is an ideal target for hackers. And both iOS and Android have vulnerabilities.