Is That 2.0TB In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

Everyone wants to talk about cloud, cloud cloud, but those of us that have been in the tech industry forever and a day know that there are a lot of risks when storing stuff in the cloud. For starters that's someone else's server space. I know that in a perfect world those cloud server company [...]

Winkli Adds Context to Events

  There are a ton of different event apps and services out there. However, many fall short in a few different areas. One of the biggest of these shortfalls is a lack of context concerning the attendees. Well,we just came across a new app that helps add some of this context: Winkli. The team was [...]

StoriesOnBoard: take a holistic view of your product

Often, it is hard to see the big-picture, in terms of projects and/or products. It is the whole can't see the forest for the trees argument. If you get bogged down in all of the minuscule details, you miss the big picture. Though you could make an argument in favor of grinding out, and staying focused [...]

TorrX: A Smart Ball Pump

As anyone who has ever pumped up any sort of sports ball can tell you, it is pretty hard to get it exactly right. It is easy to over or under inflate, but hard to hit it right on the head. We just came across a new Kickstarter Campaign that looks to solve this problem [...]

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WTF Radio Shack Opening At 8am Thanksgiving Day

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 [...]

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Blossom: An Agile Project Management Platform

   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, [...]

Review: Braven 705 wireless speaker

  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 [...]

Zumby: Trick Your Dog into Better Dental Health

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 [...]

Phablet Used To Be A Bad Thing, Now It Could Replace The Tablet

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 [...]

Embattled Aereo to lay off majority of staff

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 [...]

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