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Heres a look at 12 products and services designed to keep your business running smoothly if catastrophe strikes. Hurricane shutters and sandbags might be the first things that come to mind when you think about preparing for natural disasters. But for businesses, disaster prep is a lot more complicated"and often costly.

Everyone needs the Internet, and as our data requirements explode, it's putting a strain on broadband networks. Luckily, scientists can make wireless signals come from your TV and your lightbulb

A new mobile analytics software installed on Americans' mobile devices is giving Nielsen a better way to gather metered data on how people use their smartphones. Nielsen Company, the group that has tracked and reported consumer information on radio, television, and the Web, has a new way of tracking what goes on in people’s mobile life

Nielsen Gets Even Better At Measuring Stuff .

Personal charging devices for electric vehicles are starting to hit the market. Now your EV can have its very own dedicated wind turbine to combat NIMBYs everywhere

InterSys Consulting keeps its operations lean by outsourcing and working in the cloud.

In a paper published in the latest issue of Nature Photonics, an international team of researchers takes an important step toward giving physicists the ability to effectively make movies of individual electrons. If the approach pans out, it would provide a way to gather data of unprecedented detail about how individual molecules interact during chemical reactions, with ramifications for not only the basic sciences but chemical engineering and pharmaceutical research as well.

Nintendo's Wii has been used for a while now by physical therapists, but a revolutionary new platform could transform the game system into an at-home recovery tool, with therapists overseeing progress over 3G. A revolutionary rehabilitation system has stroke patients ambling onto Wii Balance boards--at home--to play versions of games like Wii Resort and Wii Sports, under the watchful eye of a remotely located therapist. For the first time, therapists can assign "homework therapy," giving patients an opportunity to get continuous monitored therapy services and rehab at home with ease.

Economist Dean Karlan's new book looks at what works and what doesn't work in the fight against global poverty.

Imagine if your prospects for beating the 9.1% unemployment rate depended not on a meticulously crafted cover letter and résumé, but on a complicated algorithm that helped companies determine the best matches for open jobs.

Intel, PayPal, Pepsico, Google, HP, Citi, and Microsoft are spending millions to plumb your mind. Here's how it's done.

The Oregon city is the first to use IBM's app to help cities figure out how policy can affect the lives of their citizens. But can any algorithm quantify the whole experience of city living?

Twitter users have shorter relationships. iPhone owners have more sex. And Big Macs cost 50 percent more in Brazil than in the U.S., but are much less in India

The five semi-finalists of the Data Design Diabetes Challenge have made apps to help manage and curtail the United States's growing epidemic. A staggering one in four Americans suffer from diabetes, making it one of the biggest health epidemics in the U.S

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Apple Goes To War, Legally, Against Fake Apple Stores . Apple , among numerous moves to protect its IP at the moment, has filed suit in New York to shutter "fake" Apple stores that try to capture some of the look and feel of the real stores, but aren't necessarily approved resellers.