Nearly two years ago the American Federation Of Teachers partnered with Britain's TEC Connect to start a free online community for teachers. Through ShareMyLesson teachers can share lesson plans, best practices and great ideas with each other along with the materials that go with those great ideas. The hope is that teachers from across both [...]
Yesterday, during the SXSWEdu expo, we had a chance to speak SparkFun Electronics, a company based out of Boulder Colorado. SparkFun is an open-source hardware company, meaning that they open source the designs and components for all of their hundreds of products. These products range from accelerometers to full robotics kits to cellular modules and [...]
Well he's not 12 years old anymore nor is he the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but now 16 year old Hunter Thompson from Austin has created what many will believe is the best iPhone, iPod and iPad case lines ever. His company, SmallWorks, started with an idea at age 12 when [...]
Nolan Bushnell. the man behind the original Atari and the first interactive kids restaurant concept, Chuck E Cheese, took to the main stage at SXSWedu on Monday to talk about the project he's been working on over the last two years, Brain Rush. Bushnell is forging his two loves, video games and kids and making [...]
Allen Iverson fans everywhere are rejoicing now as the team at Take Two Interactive have finally added the 76ers legendary shooting guard Allen Iverson to the game. Although there may be some confusion as to when Iverson actually retired from the NBA one things for certain and that is, judging by message boards and other [...]
Samsung didn't waste anytime in Austin this year as SXSW officially kicked off with SXSWedu. The Techfaster team is on the ground in Austin for the next 15 days bringing you SXSW faster. 15 public schools from across the country, that were chosen as finalists in the Samsung Solve For Tomorrow contest squared off to [...]
As most people know Sprint recently introduced some new plans were virtually anyone who knows anyone in person, can become part of a new Framily plan. It appears cost savings measures like Framily don't apply to the US government, in fact, according to multiple sources Sprint has overcharged the government in the tens of millions [...]
Amplify, NewsCorps education technology division has announced, what the company is calling "groundbreaking" new digital curriculum for middle school English language arts students. Amplify has continually leveraged their resources and assets as part of Newscorp to offer digital curriculum that far exceeds that of many competing companies. Their newest curriculum combines a year’s worth of [...]
Japanese electronics giant Sony decided to take a different route this year in launching the PS4 game console. Sony decided to take advantage of the holiday season in the US and then took to Europe and Asia before launching the console at home in Japan. Launch day finally arrived in Japan on February 22nd. Consumer [...]
When Pharell appeared on the Grammy's this year, for once he wasn't outdone by his good friends Daft Punk and their space suite. Pharell rocked an amazing hat that became all the talk of the week, even yielding it's own Twitter account @pharellshat. President Barrack Obama's State Of The Union address was later that same [...]
