Figuring out what's trending across social media is a little tricky. Many people don't realize that when Twitter shows you what's trending it's showing you what's trending in your social sphere. That's why when you go to a conference the conference organizers emphatically announce that their conference is trending and if you look across Twitter [...]
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 [...]
Pop music's divas are making the rounds with their fall releases. The fall is typically the hottest time for new music with artists hoping to drive sales before and during the holiday season. Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry have already released their new album's this fall. Lady Gaga is soon to follow with her new [...]
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 [...]
Forget everything you've heard or read about the Xbox One and the Playstation 4, including the fact that this very well could be the last Xbox from Microsoft. Put all of that information you've taken in, along with everything that will be published over the next two weeks, aside. The wonderful folks at Xpango have [...]
If you're like me and my family our house is one big menagerie of cords. There are ipad, iPod, iPhone, Android, camera, and laptop cords everywhere. Every outlet on our living room and kitchen seems to have a power strip coming out of it with a bunch of USB wall warts to boot. A new [...]
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 [...]
I was joking with a few friends at the last Apple press event that Apple had effectively killed the dreams of anyone making money off of a flashlight app with the release of iOS 7. Now it looks like Apple is about to take a big chunk out of another business, the iPhone display repair [...]
