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Meet The Misfit Flash, A Great Looking Tracker Under $50

By |Editors' Picks, Internet Of Things, Wearable Technology|

Misfit, the creators of the popular Shine fitness tracker are back with a new, equally as stylish, rugged and useful device called Flash. Flash is crafted out of a special soft-touch plastic, Flash is comfortable, extremely durable, and waterproof to 30 meters, making it fit for even the toughest uses. It comes in seven unique [...]

Filament Games: An Engaging Approach to Educational Games

By |Editors' Picks, Education, ISTE 2014|

During ISTE earlier this month, we had a chance to check out a whole bunch of educational games. Some better than others. The educational gaming space is sort of a strange market. There is clearly a goal behind all of the games - some sort of knowledge building or retention. However, many of the games [...]

ScootPad: Web Based K-5 Learning Platform

By |Education, ISTE 2014|

Scootpad Web Learning Platform Throughout the course of ISTE last week, we saw a ton of great companies, a ton of interesting software, and some great robotics kits. Generally, however, all of these different products fell into a few main areas. As such, ScootPad really went against the norm. ScootPad offers a web based learning [...]

Parents Can Earn Surface Tablets For Schools With Bing In The Classroom Program

By |Education, Microsoft, News|

Microsoft is expanding their Bing in the classroom program. The company is hoping to improve their market share against rivals Google and Yahoo and as we've seen time and time again, the classroom can be a very lucrative place to do that. The new Bing in the Classroom program actually has some really great points [...]

Use Your Gear To Find Paypal Locations & Pay

By |Apps, Editors' Picks, Internet Of Things, Mobile Payments, smart watch, Wearable Technology|

If you're hip enough to be walking down your city streets with a Samsung Galaxy Gear 2, Gear Neo or even Galaxy Gear, and you have a Paypal account, then you're in for a treat. Paypal is testing a new payment method on their campus that links together Bluetooth low energy beacons and Samsung Galaxy [...]

OneTock The Social Network For Your Business [OneSpark]

By |One Spark 2014, Social Networks|

There are social networks cropping up for all kinds of special interests. There are mass social networks like Facebook, and Twitter. There's even a social network for you and your business life, of course that's LinkedIn, but what if your business could have a social network. Meet OneTock a new social network for your local [...]

Appsbar recognizes Captivate Adv as the appsbar.com App of the Day

By |AppOfTheday, Apps|

Mobile app serves as introduction to advanced software processes Appsbar has recognized Captivate Adv as the appsbar.com App of the Day for showcasing how hobbyists and enthusiasts are utilizing the DIY app builder at appsbar.com to promote content on mobile platforms. Captivate Adv is the mobile extension of the book "Scripting Enhanced Interactions in Adobe [...]

Xbox One Vs PlayStation 4 In A Beautiful Infographic

By |Gaming|

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 [...]

PWUL (Pay What U Like): Track the Price of Products Online

By |Editors' Picks, Interviews|

  Shopping online is great. There is such a large selection that you can find just about anything you are looking for. However, finding the best deal or sale takes perseverance. Well, we just came across a new startup that will help you monitor the price of products: PWUL (Pay What U Like). We had [...]

Cirqle: Easily Monetize Your Blog

By |Editors' Picks, Interviews|

   There are a lot of different tools out there to help bloggers monetize their content. The great majority of which are ugly as can be.Look at the "Sponsored From Around the Web" links below. Don't judge, we have bills. Not any more. We just came across Cirqle. Cirqle allows bloggers to sell products [...]

Amazing Things: We Talk With The CoFounder Of GoGlove

By |Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks, Interviews|

What makes GoGlove an amazing thing? GoGlove is an inner glove that can be worn under someone's ski gloves, outdoor gloves or even cycling gloves. There is a module inside the glove that connects to sensors that react with each other on the users fingers. In short, GoGlove allows the user/wearer to interact with their [...]

This Year’s NCAA Football Bowls To Include Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl

By |Bitcoin, Editors' Picks, News|

We've done a good amount of reporting on the virtual currency Bitcoin over the past few years here at Techfaster.com We've seen the virtual currency take a stride at becoming more mainstream with Overstock.com, Dish Networks and Expedia adopting bitcoin as a method of payment. Even our friends at Mobile Nations allow you to buy [...]

Speck Ready For Samsung Galaxy S5

By |Editors' Picks, Mobile, Samsung|

Speck Products, the company that makes rugged, yet functional and stylish cases and accessories for smartphones, tablets and laptops, is already prepared for the arrival of Samsung's newest flagship Android phone the Samsung Galaxy S5. Through its SMAPP (Samsung Mobile Accessory Partnership Program) licensing agreement with Samsung, Speck is releasing three of its most popular [...]

Google Is Giving Away Over Two Million To Find Chrome Bugs

By |Editors' Picks, Google|

Google has been known for it's bonuses that it pays for real world hackers who find exploits in their products and services, reports them and then replicates them. Bonus payments have often ranged between $1000 and $10,000 with the $10,000 prizes being saved for what Google calls "particularly significant contributions." Google initially debuted the bug bounty [...]

TutStu: A ReverbNation for Teachers

By |Education, Interviews|

   We just came across a really interesting new EdTech Startup: TutStu. The company is still in private beta, but looks to open a public beta here in the next month or two. Anyhow, TutStu has a pretty unique platform. Essentially, it is sort of a ReverbNation for teachers. We had a chance to ask [...]

Movenote: Making Presentations more Fluid and Intuitive

By |Education, Interviews|

           So no one really likes to give presentations. They are nerve-wracking, and lead to a lot of stress, at least in my experience. On top of the general anxiety that comes from giving a presentation, the software is somewhat clunky. The software has yet to catch up. This is especially evident in the classroom. For [...]

“The New York Times” Thinks We Will Pay $8 for a New Digg

By |Editors' Picks, SXSW|

The NYT has just unveiled a new app - NYT Now - that is essentially the exact same thing as Digg. NYT Now will cost $8/month and run ads. NYT Now is - at best - an attempt to jump into a highly saturated mostly-free category of applications with a product that costs $8/month.

GripCase Applies The Toms Buy One Give One Model To iPad Cases

By |Education, ISTE 2014, Tatum Tech|

We love to call it slacktivism but companies like Tom's shoes have made it so easy to give back just by purchasing their product. Now we've learned that Gripcase, the company that makes the iPad case our 6 year old ISTE correspondent loved, has applied the same model to their line of iPad cases for [...]

Contrary To Popular Belief, Blackerry Is Not Dead Yet

By |Editors' Picks, Mobile|

When Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and the entire AllThingsD crew left the Wall Street Journal you weren't thinking those hot seat interviews were dead, were you? Well new Blacbkerry CEO John Chen was in the hot seat on Wednesday at the inaugural re/code Code Conference the new conference starring the former AllThingsD team. Re/Code co-founders [...]

Parents Of Boys Are Going To Love: Troll On The Bowl

By |Everything Else|

So this has noting to do with tech but being a parent and a boy (but not the parent of a boy) I can be very sympathetic to the cause of Troll On The Bowl. Not only that but it's Saturday and this just seemed like a great Saturday story. Troll on the Bowl was [...]