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Apple appears to be gearing up for a fresh assault on a market it's never done hugely well in: Enterprise.

Adding a live chat service to your e-commerce site can simplify communication with your customers. Here's how to integrate this alternative to e-mail and customer service hotlines into your site.

Network attached storage devices are gaining popularity as a way of sharing files among multiple computers.

You finally found a manufacturer that can handle your demand at a reasonable price. But it's in China, which requires a flight nearly a day long to get there.

The rock celebrity launches a new retailing business, called AbbeyDawn.com. Like many celebrities hoping to break into fashion, Avril Lavigne partnered with a big national retailer when she launched her Abbey Dawn clothing line in 2008. Just two years later, though, the business-savvy pop star and Kohl's ended their relationship, and Lavigne set out to build a global apparel company

A look at mobile applications that help you perfect your golf game, score deals on outdoor apparel, and find parks to suit your needs Now that summer is in full swing, you have permission to use your smartphone for things other than checking e-mail and calling clients.

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The latest travel trend is incorporating tech into offerings at hotels, airports, on airplanes and more. Virgin America and Ace Hotel in NYC have announced partnerships with Google to provide guests with Chromebooks for free on select flights. iPads, however, are already lots of other places

The HTC Status puts its money where its mouth is: Almost the entire front end of the phone is about sharing, updating, or checking on your social-network statuses. The thing even has a "share on Facebook " button right on its chassis. The Status, coming exclusively from AT&T this summer, is otherwise run-of-the-mill

Richard Kerris, the former Apple exec, is gliding through his presentation of HP's TouchPad. As the current VP of worldwide developer relations for WebOS, the slick software giving life to HP's latest mobile devices, Kerris is giddily running through the tablet's bells and whistles: the design, the partnerships, the apps, the engineering. But suddenly our discussion is interrupted by the sound of woodwinds, dancing up the scale

Want a ballerina body? "Back away from the barre," says Brynn Jinnett, 27, a Harvard University-educated former professional ballerina who danced in the film Black Swan. Jinnett, who'd been dancing since the age of three, was frustrated by the fitness trend of barre method classes.

This week Apple's COO and acting CEO Tim Cook was apparently spotted sauntering into the Beijing offices of China Mobile , the world's largest cellphone network, with 611 million subscribers (that's almost twice the number of people living in the U.S. ). As a result, analyst Brian White at Ticondera Securities suggested that Apple's poised to launch an iPhone whose price would appeal to the average Chinese smartphone user

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Legendary ad man John Hegarty offers some advice for advertisers and marketers who are trying to navigate the future of the business. Legendary ad man John Hegarty , cofounder and worldwide creative director of international agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty , knows something about building great brands

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Skanz Are Wearable Business Cards/Social Network The New York Consumer Electronic Week conference will outfit all attendees with a QR-code wristband that activities a sophisticated business card-like app called Skanz. In addition to basic info, Skanz is a mini-social network that facilitates offline interacting after the conference--in other words, no more trying to cram even more URLs and social media IDs onto increasingly tinier slivers of what was once called a business card (for more business-card ditching strategies, see our post from SXSW)