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Dell To Introduce Vostro Laptops (01 August 03:07) |
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Apple Makes Seemingly Boring, Important iPhone Software Move (01 August 03:01) |
| Part of the renewed appeal of Apple's [NASDAQ:AAPL] iPhone is the multitude of applications being written for its operating system. But like any hegemony, Apple hasn't given their developers... |
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FujiFilm Announces Oddly Intimate Camera (01 August 02:40) |
| With a name like the Finepix "Glam Cam," FujiFilm's [NASDAQ:FUJI] new digicam smelled like mischief from a mile away. The Z200fd, as it's known by day, looks from the outside like ... |
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Music to My Ears (31 July 09:21) |
| William Barrell wrote about how a song inspired him and his business in his blog, I Believe I Can Fly. As a writer, both of fiction and for FastCompany.com, music has often inspired me. Som... |
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Microsoft After Windows (31 July 10:14) |
| Somewhere deep in the Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] labs are white-coated bespectacled engineers working on something code-named Midori. It's an operating system to be sure, but unlike anything we... |
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Asus Cancels Lamborghini Phone (31 July 10:04) |
| Is this the first sign that Asus [TPE:2357] is not the immutable force of nature we once thought?
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Garmin's Nuvifone Suffers Delays (31 July 09:49) |
| Much ado has been made of Apple's [NASDAQ:AAPL] iPhone 3G as a smartphone with GPS, but what ever became of that GPS device that was to include a smartphone? I'm talking about Garmin's [NASD... |
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The Pitfalls of Micromanaging (31 July 02:38) |
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Leadership Revealed (31 July 02:21) |
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Why Steve Jobs is Apple's Most Important Product (30 July 12:45) |
| Apple sent the business world buzzing late last week by announcing that CEO and tech icon Steve Jobs had recently gone under the knife, apparently to treat whatever was causing his drastic w... |
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Cheap HD Camcorder Coming From Toshiba (29 July 09:13) |
| If you've never played around with an HD camcorder, let me be the first to tell you that the quality -- when you pair the device with an HDTV, of course -- is utterly surprising. Now that yo... |
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Do I Really Want to Accept that Friend Request? (29 July 09:09) |
| I came to work today with an email alerting me to a friend request on Facebook. It was someone from High School who, not only was I not close with, kind of acted like a jerk toward me. So wh... |
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New iriver Touch Media Player Coming Soon (29 July 08:42) |
| There has been a little bit of speculation as to the form-factor that iriver's [KDQ:060570] new media player, the Spinn, would take; early FCC leaks seemed to suggest that it would operate v... |
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Comic Con and Other Geek Holidays (24 July 08:45) |
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Special Report: What's Up With Solid State Hard Drives? (24 July 06:27) |
| It seems like every new drool-worthy notebook these days -- from the MacBook Air to the VooDoo Envy -- is sporting solid state hard drives instead of traditional hard drives. If you don't kn... |
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Samsung Reveals Media Streamer (24 July 04:57) |
| Today is apparently Samsung day here on the Tech Watch blog, partially because your humble blogger attended a fancy Samsung media demo event today in New York's West Village, and partly beca... |
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Samsung Announces New LED LCD TVs (24 July 04:25) |
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The Barbie Bubble (24 July 03:41) |
| When I finally cleared through thecrowd of technology reporters at the press preview for Digital Life – thelargest consumer electronics show on the East Coast – I saw the booth causing... |
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Workipedia: Office Wikis and the Collaboration Revolution (24 July 01:38) |
| Gone are the days of paper here at the offices of FastCompany.com. Virtually all in-house office communication is done electronically. E-mail is a given, as is teleconferencing. But what our... |
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Dancing Is The New Energy Generator (24 July 01:25) |
| Scientists and club owners have joined forces in a new venture using alternative resources, and it's dance power. Club WATT, the world's Sustainable Dance Club™ will open September 4 in Ro... |
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First There Were Books, Then Blogs, and Now There's Blooks (24 July 01:07) |
| Just when one Internet phenomenon achieves enough hype, something new is right around the corner. Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, it goes on. Now there's the Blook.
Former Fortune 500 CEO Paul Mong... |
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Consumer Perceptions, Manipulation and Molding (23 July 11:07) |
| Turns out that we as consumers can be easily manipulated -- and it's probably happening far more often that we'd like to imagine. A couple of studies released this year draw attention to thi... |
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Buy From Amazon on Your TiVo? (23 July 03:37) |
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Canon Releases Two HD Video Cams (23 July 03:31) |
| Not to be outdone by JVC [TYO:6792] or Samsung [SEO:005930] on its own turf, Canon [NYSE:CAJ] has just churned out two new HD video cams. The first is the iVIS HF11, which sports 32GB of bui... |
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Sony Ericsson Releases Three New Walkman Phones (23 July 03:22) |
| Woebegone Sony Ericsson [NYSE:SNE] isn't giving up the fight just yet. The company released three new phones in its Walkman line today to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the Walkman phone. ... |
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Nissan Cars to Feature Solar Panels (23 July 03:07) |
| A couple of weeks ago we heard about plans for a solar-assisted Toyota [NYSE:TM] Prius, and now it seems Nissan [NASDAQ:NSANY] is jumping on the solar bandwagon as well. Reports about the Pr... |
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New Nokia Touch Interface Inspires Yawns (22 July 05:58) |
| It's been known for a while that Nokia [NYSE:NOK] is taking their newly-minted purchase of the Symbian OS and making it touch-friendly. Now screenshots have emerged of the company's Touch ve... |
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Apple Posts Record Quarter (22 July 05:49) |
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Panasonic Releases Three New Digital Cameras (22 July 05:36) |
| July isn't usually a big month for tech product announcements, but Panasonic [NYSE:MC] is bucking the trend by announcing three pretty capable-looking digicams. Starting with the low end, th... |
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Video is Everywhere (21 July 08:43) |
| Last week at E3, both Microsoft and Sony made announcements related to video. Microsoft announced a partnership with Netflix to make streaming video available on the Xbox 360. Microsoft also... |
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FastCompany.com Update Three (21 July 04:58) |
| Where to begin?
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Did NVIDIA and ATI Engage in Price Fixing? (19 July 03:51) |
| The answer, it would seem, is yes -- probably.
An anti-trust suit filed against the two companies has unearthed an interesting exchange of documents between Dan Vivoli, NVIDIA's [NASDAQ:NVDA... |
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Sony Ericsson Net Profits Fall 97% (19 July 03:33) |
| Everyone in the mobile world had a hunch that this quarter would be a rough one for Sony's [NYSE:SNE] Sony Ericsson division, but it's safe to say that few people knew just how bad things we... |
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Meet The Real Craig Stevens (19 July 01:40) |
| In early March, thousands of Youtube-surfing Broadway aficionados discovered Craig Stevens, a recent college graduate from Tennessee who, shortly after the new year, had followed his theatri... |
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Amazon Now Supplying "On Demand" (19 July 01:18) |
| Yesterday, Amazon introduced its new on-demand, online store for movies and TV shows, called “Amazon Video on Demand.” Supposedly, Amazon’s new repository will operate much like a cabl... |
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AT&T Delivers Free WiFi Promise for iPhones [Update: Then Retracts] (18 July 11:50) |
| After months of rumors, AT&T [NYSE:ATT] is finally making good on its promise of providing free WiFi to its iPhone customers at the company's 17,000 hotspots nationwide. The telecom gian... |
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The Watchmen Movie Trailer and Niche Marketing (18 July 05:03) |
| Last night, Warner Bros. released online the trailer for the film adaptation of graphic novel Watchmen. After a two second conflict with myself over whether I should wait to see the teaser i... |
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Creative Reveals New "Zen Krystal" Media Player (18 July 04:56) |
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Apple Sues Clone-Maker Psystar (18 July 04:29) |
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Toshiba Announces Massive Notebook Hard Drives (18 July 04:05) |
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Blogging and Other Social Fixtures (17 July 08:36) |
| In his blog post, It's the End of Blogging as We Know It, Norman Birnbach discusses Jason Calacanis' announcement that he would quit blogging and stick with sending messages to a mailing lis... |
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'Title of Show' Opens on Broadway (16 July 11:45) |
| Almost three months ago I interviewed writer-singer-actor Jeff Bowen, whose musical about the making of a musical, Title of Show, was picked up for a Broadway run (see my post here.). Much o... |
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Samsung Announces 14.7MP Point-and-Shoot Camera (16 July 05:05) |
| Most digital photo experts will tell you that megapixel rating isn't everything -- in fact, many of the professionally-shot digital images you see published in magazines, newspapers and webs... |
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Voice Control Your iPod... For the Price of an iPod (16 July 04:55) |
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Asus Introduces 2.53GHz Laptop for Around $1300 (16 July 04:36) |
| Apparently no one at Asus [TPE:2357] sleeps, because the Taiwanese manufacturer just keeps announcing new notebooks at a pace that even a late 90s Robert Downey Jr. would find frighteningly ... |
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Casio Announces Large-Screen Digicams (16 July 03:50) |
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Logitech Releases Two New Gaming Devices (16 July 03:25) |
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Mobile Quad-Core Intel Chips Coming (16 July 03:09) |
| Laptop enthusiasts are finally getting that holy grail of processing power that only their desktop-tethered counterparts had hiterto enjoyed: quad-core processors from Intel [NASDAQ:INTC]. I... |
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E3 2008: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Press Conferences (16 July 02:55) |
| Every summer at the E3 videogame event the big 3 platform holders have press conferences to try to capture the attention of gaming journalism, mainstream media, and the public. How did they ... |
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A Titan is Born: Activision Set to Merge With Vivendi Games (15 July 11:56) |
| Gaming just got a little more serious with the upcoming merger between video game publishers Activision Inc. and Vivendi Games. The merger will bring landmark titles “Guitar Hero”, “Ca... |
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