BBM Channels graduates from beta on BlackBerry smartphones

While BlackBerry may not be selling smartphones like they used to they are still doing well with their messaging platform, BlackBerry Messenger or BBM. Recently BlackBerry released BBM on Android and iOS, and the response was overwhelming. Despite some issues getting the app to market it appears as though it was worth the wait, and [...]

Google is now inviting developers to purchase Google Glass

While it is still in a "beta" form Google Glass has certainly gained a bunch of attention, but unfortunately getting your hands on a pair of your own is not just as simple as walking into a store and buying a pair. Google first introduced sales of Google Glass back at Google I/O 2012 and [...]

Goldie Blox Video Is Gone, Take Beastie Boys To Court Over License To Ill

The world has been talking about a viral video created by Goldie Blox, a California based toy company who make toys that cover the fundamentals of engineering. The video that went viral, shows three girls, cute as can be, that use their typical "girlie" toys to build a Rube Goldberg Machine. The video also features [...]

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Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Headed To Mobile Next Month

Fans of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) franchise will be happy to know that next month you should be able to download Grand Theft Auto San Andreas for your mobile device. BGR reported late Tuesday evening that Rockstar Games will work on select iOS 7, Android, Kindle Fire and Windows Phone devices. While they've said [...]

Happy Chanukah Everybody

With all the excitement of Thanksgiving and Black Friday, ok probably more excitement for the latter, I don't want us to forget about Chanukah which starts at sundown tomorrow evening. Although I've taken a year off from doing it, one of the most popular posts every on thedroidguy.com was my annual rewrites of Adam Sandler's [...]

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Best Buy Wants You To Vine In Line, Is This A Bad Idea?

Like the rest of the big box retailers, Best Buy is gearing up for Black Friday, or as we like to call it around the Techfaster office, Black Thursday. Best Buy stores will open up at 8pm local time in all of their cities and have door busters planned accordingly. In fact the craziest of [...]

Holiday Gift Guide: CHIL – Powerful, Affordable Jawbone Alternative

The ChilBox is an incredibly powerful portable wireless Bluetooth speaker, and is an incredible value at half the price of a Jawbone speaker. CHIL also offers tons of other affordable tablet and mobile accessories.

Get Your App Seen In Front Of 100s Of Top Influencers… Free Here’s How

Appnation V is just around the corner. The annual mega-app conference that represents every aspect of the app world, or more appropriately the appnation, kicks off December 2nd at the Moscone West center in San Francisco. For two days, anyone involved in apps in anyway will enjoy keynotes, breakout sessions and more from app leaders [...]

Kevin Garnett Is Battling His Old Age With Beats Headphones

Brooklyn Nets power forward Kevin Garnett is the latest celebrity to be featured in an ad campaign for Beats By Dre headphones. The new TV spot features Garnett aboard a bus that appears to be headed to a rival arena for a game. Fans surround the bus and start taunting Garnett. They yell at him, [...]

The Robots Are Back On Twitter, And Stronger Than Ever

Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal ran an expose on Jim Vidmar a man who makes a living by helping people boost their social status on Twitter. Vidmar, who's based in Las Vegas, buys fake Twitter accounts in bulk and then uses those accounts to follow, tweet and retweet at his clients. When the [...]