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According to several reports, Samsung has been hard at work preparing a new smart watch that can serve as a standalone device - not requiring users to have a phone near by. According to The New York Times, Samsung, "is making another run at that perennial technogeek dream, the wrist communicator," and looks to [...]
Samsung is preparing a package of digital swag for early adopters of the Samsung Galaxy S5, that GottaBeMobile is reporting tops $500 in freebies and trial offers. Samsung fans may remember last years launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note that including a digital swag package featuring a $50 Google Play store credit. So far it [...]
As wearable devices like the Pebble Watch, Galaxy Gear, FitBit, and Google Glass are exploding in popularity, the recently funded Smarty Ring Indiegogo campaign wants to move wearables to your finger.
16 year old Arsh Shah Dilbagi believes that everyone has the right to talk. That's why he came up with a new device called TALK for the Google Science Fair. The Google Science Fair is a science and technology competition open to students worldwide ages 13-18. As with most of Google's social initiatives the science [...]
Over the weekend the tech press went crazy over news that Google purchased Boston firm, Boston Dynamics, a company that makes military robots. That acquisition was one of many that are helping to support Andy Rubin's current moonshot working on robotics for the internet giant. Of course the purchase of Boston Dynamics makes perfect sense [...]
There've been rumblings about Apple possibly introducing an in-car or connected car system over the past few years. However, there have been a lot of products rumored to be coming down the pipeline for Apple as well. A new Apple TV, that's integrated into an actual TV, the iWatch and even a competitor to Google [...]
Several mobile apps and even mobile OS features allow you to print from your smartphone to any network connected printer. Other apps allow you to print to your neighborhood office store and other connected devices. Still even more apps allow you to print photos from your phone to your neighborhood pharmacy or even WalMart. But [...]
Last September Box CEO Aaron Levie made the first mention of Box Notes. This new functionality would allow Box's large consumer and enterprise user base to leverage the cloud storage platform and write, edit, store, collaborate and share notes. The feature was seen as an Evernote competitor, than a Microsoft competitor, then some Google competitor. [...]
After coming on the scene over three years ago to solve a very important problem in the mobile payment space, Square quickly looked for ways to get on the other side of the transaction. Square's easy to set up card reader and just as easy to setup account and app have empowered thousands of small [...]
It's hard to believe that the Big Android BBQ is going into it's 5th event. I was one of the original co-founders alongside Aaron Kasten the founder of Android Swag and several other mobile and technology related entities. The Big Android BBQ is the Android developer's version of MacWorld a fan/developer founded event for Mac [...]
If Cortana sounds like a familiar name to you that must mean you play or have played Microsoft's flagship console game Halo. The artificial intelligence character in the hit game franchise is also the name that Microsoft has bestowed upon their new digital assistant, showing up with the release of Windows 8.1. With new Microsoft [...]
(image: AppleInsider.com) Siri on Mac OSX Move over little paper clip man it looks like Apple may finally be looking at bringing Siri, the iOS digital assistant to Mac OSX environments. Technobuffalo reminds us that earlier this summer at the World Wide Developer's Conference Apple introduced the world to Yosemite. Now Yosemite is [...]
(photo: ISTEunplugged) The International Society for Technology in Education, more affectionately known as ISTE, is holding it's annual mega conference in less than two weeks in Atlanta Georgia at the World Congress Center. The conference is often billed as the largest educational technology conference in the world and runs from June 28th to [...]
Jagermeister, the number one imported liqueur in the United States, has a solid reputation for backing things in music. From concerts, to festivals to contests, the drink behind the Jagerbomb has always gone hand in hand with great music in all genres. They do a great job of living their lifestyle. With that in mind [...]
The Techfaster crew is busy getting preparing for Mobile World Congress, the largest wireless and mobile industry trade show in the world. During Mobile World Congress we'll see all the new exciting phones and hardware for 2014. You may have wondered why there weren't many wireless and smartphone announcements from the likes of Samsung, or [...]
Target has apologized profusely for the data breach that has resulted in the compromise of personal and credit card/debit card data from over 40 million Target shoppers. Anyone who shopped at target from Thanksgiving to December 15th and paid with a credit or debit card, fell victim to the heist. Target has done everything a [...]
There were a ton of great new products at the 2015 International CES. Although smartphones are generally not one of the major segments at CES - the majority of manufacturers wait until MWC to debut new devices - the Chinese manufacturer ZTE showed off an impressive new lineup of handsets. While all of the devices [...]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and VP of Microsoft Devices Group Stephen Elop On Friday, Microsoft completed the acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business. This acquisition brings several key components from Nokia into Microsoft: "Microsoft acquires Nokia’s smartphone and mobile phone businesses, its design team, most of its manufacturing and assembly facilities and [...]
Creativity and collaboration are two fundamental pieces in today's educational space. A new iPad app called Drawp is bridging both of those things together and at the same time making them easier Drawp features drawing, coloring and painting creativity tools on an art engine that's built for more professional applications. This means that kids can [...]
One of the problems that students face when applying to colleges is of a logistical nature. There is no one-size fits all application to colleges. Each university has different requirements for their application process. Thus, if students are applying to several universities, it can be quite a hassle. However, one professor, Dr. Rebecca Joseph, thinks [...]
