Have you ever bought a used Sprint or Verizon Wireless device from Ebay or Craigslist only to find out it can't be activated because the ESN is bad? Sure everyone says ESN's are good but most times you're taken the word of a seller that you've never met. Feedback on Ebay can usually tell you [...]
Levar Burton, the actor made famous by his show Reading Rainbow and then Star Trek, has been spending a lot of time in the techsfphere lately. His Reading Rainbow app for iTunes he considers a "Netflix For Kids" it allows users to download new books and keeps the content fresh. The Reading Rainbow app is [...]
This is not something out of a science fiction movie. After three years of research and development the RoboRoach is real. RoboRoach is a wirelessly controlled backpack that can be attached to a real live cockroach with some quick do it yourself surgery. Once you do the surgery and attach the reusable RoboRoach backpack to [...]
Got Your 6, an organization that unites the entertainment industry with top veteran-focused nonprofit organizations held an event at Google's New York Headquarters on Friday. At that event, several technology leaders, including Google, made the case for hiring vets in the tech sector. "130,000 soldiers will leave the army every year," said Brig. Gen. David [...]
It only took three years but internet streaming company LiveStream has finally caught up to rival UStream's mobile app. Livestream just completed the first live video stream from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week during Twitter's IPO and then wasted no time to announce that you too can broadcast live from [...]
Katy Perry's Prism Truck outside the iHeartRadio Music Festival 2013 (photo: Techfaster) While Apple's iTunes Radio is hoping to dethrone Pandora as the king of internet radio, another i-radio continues to follow the internet radio giant very closely. Clear Channel Media and Entertainment's iHeartRadio recently reported more explosive growth. The popular music app [...]
A little over a week ago the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) eased up on their restrictions surrounding Personal Electronic Devices (PEDs). On October 31st the FAA announced that passengers would be able to use PED's gate to gate, or from the time they took off until the time they landed. Previously, PED's needed to be [...]
With Chanukah running simultaneously with Thanksgiving this year, the holiday gift guide season is just 3 weeks away for some. We will be posting almost daily Holiday Gift Guide suggestions right up until Christmas eve weekend. If you've missed the ones we've posted this far here's a recap of some great tech related holiday gift [...]
Everyone knows that Facebook, the world's biggest social network began at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts. We also know to well the story of Boston investment firms missing out on a company that could have made them billions of dollars. It's been widely noted that at least Boston VC giant Battery Ventures was at least [...]
First off this is not a joke and it is a very realistic possibility that the Xbox One could be the last of the Microsoft gaming consoles. Many reliable sources, including Bloomberg, are reporting that Stephen Elop is a front runner for the CEO position at Microsoft. Before running Nokia into the ground Elop was [...]
