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ZipGrade: Grade From Your Phone

By |Education, Interviews|

   Grading is still one of the most time-intensive processes for teachers. Sure, there are scantrons, but you have to have access to the grading machine. Come exam season, you have to fight to get access to the Scantron machine. However, grading just got a lot easier. We had the chance to ask John Viebach about [...]

CrowdNotes: Lightweight, Clean, Intuitive Note Taking

By |Apps, Interviews|

   We have come across a ton of note taking apps recently. For the most part, however, they all seem to fall down in one area or another. They are either too bulky, or don't allow real-time collaboration, or actually cot money, or are difficult to navigate - we're looking at you Google Drive. However, CrowdNotes thinks [...]

Jury’s Back In Apple Samsung Case

By |Apple, News, Patent, Samsung|

The latest Apple vs Samsung patent infringement case had the potential to be the biggest, however, when the Jury came back late Friday evening it was all but that. Many news sites are reporting a big win for Apple. With the jury awarding $119.6 million dollars to Apple for Samsung infringing some of it's patents, [...]

LyricFind Inks Big Deal With Universal Music Publishing Group

By |Music, News|

Thanks to the invention of smartphones, computers and websites, people don't often have to guess what the lyrics are to their favorite songs on the radio. One quick Google search and you can find the words to just about every song ever published. The problem is those lyrics come back from a variety of websites. [...]

Help Name A New Event Planning App at One Spark

By |One Spark 2014|

     There are an awful lot of different ideas and projects at the upcoming One Spark. However, Curt Bender's The App is one of the most unique approaches to One Spark that we have seen. While The App does have a function and purpose, here is Curt's answer to why it is called "The App," [...]

Jagermeister Drops JagerBonds Just In Time For SXSW

By |Everything Else|

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 [...]

Let’s Keep Up With Mobile World Congress With Let’s App

By |Apps, Editors' Picks, MWC 2014|

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 [...]

Did Target Ignore Warnings Before Major Data Heist?

By |Editors' Picks, Security|

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 [...]

Genius Maps, Don’t Leave Home Without It!

By |Apps, Editors' Picks|

While the Apple maps app on iOS devices has greatly improved sine it's release, and Google Maps seems to be a main stay across all smartphone users, there's another GPS app that's worth checking out. In fact, we won't leave home without it. Genius Maps is a premium offline GPS navigation app with professional maps. [...]

Samsung Planning To Sell 330 Million Smartphones Next Year

By |Android, Editors' Picks, Mobile, Samsung|

Omar Khan launches Samsung into the Galaxy at the original Galaxy S launch in 2010 (photo: K. Sandler) In the  earlier years of the Android operating system it appeared that there was going to be some fierce competition as far as manufacturers were concerned. The Motorola Droid came out of the gate like [...]

1GB Fiber Internet Headed To Mississippi

By |Editors' Picks, News|

For some it may be hard to stomach that the latest "statewide" 1gbps internet rollout is coming to Mississippi. For others, it may not seem that odd because Chattanooga, in neighboring Tennessee, was actually the first city in the United States to get 1gb fiber. Contrary to popular believe, Chattanooga actually rolled their 1gb ethernet [...]

Utah Hosting $15,000 Mobile App “Concept To Company” Contest

By |Apps, Innovation, News|

The Startup Ogden Mobile App lab is looking to become the center of the mobile app universe in Ogden Utah. The organization is teaming up with Grow Utah Ventures, Northfront Business Resource Center, and Webster University/Startup Ogden of the $15,000 Mobile App Concept To Company contest. The Startup Ogden Mobile App lab knows that there [...]

ZTE Debuts The Star 2 at CES 2015

By |Android, CES 2015, Editors' Picks|

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 [...]

Georical: A New Take on Social Media

By |Editors' Picks, Interviews|

  We just came across a wildly inventive new app: Georical. It is hard to explain, but we were able to ask the founder a few questions about the app. Rather than offer a butchered explanation, take a look at the answers below Georical  What does your company do? Georical aims to let you access [...]

Review: Misfit Shine

By |Editors' Picks, Holiday Gift Guide 2014, Reviews, Wearable Technology|

The Misfit Shine is a small fitness band with hopes of getting people of all weights and ages moving. Misfit is a producer of high quality fitness materials with the ability to connect to your mobile device and give you feedback to help accomplish your goals. Shine gives you accurate information about how many steps [...]

Want A Ton Of Cloud Storage Space, Support Pikanote And It’s All Yours

By |Apps, Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks|

There are many great note taking apps out there. Evernote tops the list as one of the most popular. However, Evernote can be cumbersome at times and overbearing to new users. What if those users are kids or students. They need a note taking app that's easy to understand but keeps up with their work [...]

Put Soap At The Center Of Your Home Networking Universe

By |Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks, Internet Of Things|

Wireless routers are one of the most bland, boring products, but at the same time they are one of the most vital. The only time you even really think about your router is when it stops working. It's just there. However, there is one company that wants to change how we think about routers. This [...]

Microsoft Completes the Purchase of Nokia’s Devices Business

By |Editors' Picks, Microsoft|

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 [...]

Code.Org Bringing Coding To 2 Million Students Across The Country [EdTech]

By |Editors' Picks, Education|

There has been a huge push to expose more students to coding and development. One of the biggest contributors to the gender gap in Silicon Valley and in the tech space across the country, is education. Seattle based code.org continues to find ways to help teach as many people to code as possible. You may [...]

Win Thousands Of Dollars In Awesome Tech Prizes From Techfaster, iSpotlight & bounceit!

By |Everything Else|

We're on the ground in Las Vegas bringing you all the news, action and latest products from the 2014 International CES. From now through January 10th nearly 200,000 people will be here to take in all that the world has to offer in consumer electronics, smartphones, wearable technologies, 3D Printing and more. You can stay [...]