Sales have been down at Radio Shack, everyone in the tech industry seems to know that, everyone in consumer electronics seems to know that as well. On Monday the struggling company announced that they would start their holiday shopping season at 8am on Thanksgiving Day. No, not Black Friday, and not just a few hours [...]
As software development has quickly adapted to the agile methodology, the project management tools have struggled to keep up. Many are still bulky and somewhat difficult to use. We just came across what is, arguably, the best choice for agile project management: Blossom. The results speak for themselves. Blossom is used at: Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, [...]
The Braven 705 is a portable bluetooth speaker that can fit many audio needs without breaking your wallet. This speaker looks good and includes helpful features not seen in some other speakers. It has vibrant color options: yellow, purple, blue, gray and a few other to fit your style. Although the Braven 705 costs [...]
All but one of the TechFaster team has at least one dog. Heck, a few of us have more than two. That said, we are always on the lookout for cool and interesting dog-based technologies. We just came across a pretty interesting new crowdfunding campaign that falls right in line with this, Zumby: The Zumby [...]
A few years back when the first Galaxy Note came out alongside a comparable phone from LG, the word Phablet didn't have the same connotation that it does today. When we saw the first PadPhone three years ago at the International Consumer Electronics Show, it was met with mixed fanfare. Some we're still on a [...]
On Friday, Aereo - a startup that allowed users to stream and record live, over-the-air television programming - announced a massive round of layoffs. Aereo has been in and out of court, fighting the massive cable companies for the better part of the last two years. Ultimately, the legal battle ended when the Supreme Court [...]
We're sitting here wondering how much longer we're going to have to refer to T-Mobile as the fourth largest carrier in the United States. Since John Legere's take over of the carrier, they've been a forced to be reckoned with, which all stems from T-Mobile's "Un Carrier" initiative. T-Mobile was having trouble climbing it's way [...]
Intel Capital announced at their annual summit, the latest 16 companies to receive funding from the silicon company's venture arm. The summit kicked off Monday at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach attracting over 1,000 Intel Capital portfolio CEO's and high level employees, venture capitalists and top executives from Global 2000 companies, according to Intel. On [...]
There are a ton of different smart home and connected home and internet of things devices out there. The problem is, a lot of these devices have a pretty rigorous set up and involve a large amount of work. Sure, there are a few simple ones out there, but most of these devices are simple, [...]
URL shorteners are a great way to get the maximum amount of data out of clicks. However, there are some drawbacks to the standard URL shortners. Firstly, they really just serve as a static link: Meaning one shortened URL points to only one URL. That is all well and good, but what if a [...]
