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Samsung to Release “Gear Glass” at IFA in September

By |News, Samsung, Wearable Technology|

According to several reports, Samsung will be rolling out a Google Glass-like device in September of this year. Business Korea cites an unnamed Samsung sources as nothing that the device, dubbed "Gear Glass," will be ready in time for IFA 2014, Sept. 5-10, in Berlin, Germany. According to the report, "Gear Glass," will be much more than a [...]

Holiday Gift Guide: 5 Smart Watches to Consider

By |Editors' Picks, Holiday Gift Guide 2013|

As the holiday shopping period is just about at the home stretch, we have a couple last minute ideas. As smart watches are set exploding in popularity, here are some great examples to consider.

Holiday Gift Guide: Karma, The Gift That Keeps You Getting

By |Editors' Picks, Gadgets & Tech, Holiday Gift Guide 2013|

Karma is anything but a bitch when it comes to wifi. Everyone needs wifi, well at least everyone reading Techfaster.com. Wherever you go, having wifi and data is essential to your being, especially in this day and age. Karma is a different kind of mifi wifi sharing device. Sure it looks like mifi's on the [...]

Google adds a Voice Search extension to Google Chrome

By |Editors' Picks, Google|

As though navigating to Google's home page and then typing out what you were looking for was a terribly difficult task, Google has gone ahead and made it even easier to use. Google has added the "OK, Google" hotword detection to their own Chrome browser via a very easy and free extension. Currently Google offers [...]

Moto X On T-Mobile & AT&T Getting Android 4.4 Kit Kat Now

By |Android, News|

Is this a signal that long waits for Android updates are a thing of the past? When the latest version of Android, version 4.4 Kit Kat, was officially announced alongside the Nexus 5, it was also revealed that Google wanted this version of Android to be able to go on a lot more devices than [...]

With FDA Medical Guidance, Medical Apps Set To Explode

By |Editors' Picks, Health, News|

The Food & Drug Administration released their final guidance on Medical Mobile Applications back in September. Now that doctor's are becoming familiar with the FDA's guidelines we're set to see more mobile apps for healthcare. Healthcare Finance News citing a survey from Digitas Health, reported that as high as 90% of people with a chronic [...]

Crocodoc’s Ryan Damico On How To Get Acquired

By |Editors' Picks, Tips|

First off if you're not listening to the 500 startups weekly podcast you're doing it wrong. Each week 500 Startups Resident Marketing Manager and Baker, Mark Saldana sits down with 500 startups founders, mentors, investors and others in their network for a 1:1 look at the important things about starting up. In episode 22 Saldana [...]

Samsung Unveils 2 Galaxy Note Devices at IFA 2014

By |Editors' Picks, IFA 2014, Samsung|

With IFA 2014 approaching at the end of this week, companies are preemptively announcing and launching new products. IFA, if you are not familiar, is essentially a European CES: IFA in Berlin, the global trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, presents the latest products and innovations in the heart of Europe‘s most important regional [...]

Chromebooks Gaining On Apple In The Classroom [EdTech]

By |Apple, Editors' Picks, Education, Google|

As many school systems across the country start heading back to school, there is more and more technology available. In what was once a market dominated by Apple, there is now stiff competition, and it's not coming from PCs. Apple has had a presence in the classroom since the mid 1980's. Apple started catering to [...]

MIT Can Make Your 200 ft2 Apartment 3X Larger

By |Editors' Picks, Internet Of Things|

Some people prefer living the smaller life. Others are forced into it by having to live in major cities with major rent. Ikea has been providing furniture designed to optimize those small spaces for years, but now, the students at the MIT Media Lab have come up with a concept that blends technology, apps and [...]

GemWhere Smart, Has Your Daily Briefing And More On Your Wrist

By |Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks, Gadgets & Tech, Wearable Technology|

I've been using a Pebble smart watch since it was first released on Kickstarter. While I love my Pebble smartwatch I'm also a big news junkie and love to know what's going on around me. I like to know when the big things happen whether it be technology, sports or even politics. The myriad of alerts [...]

Illinois Legislator Looks To Preemptively Ban Google Glass While Driving

By |Editors' Picks, Google, News|

As more and more people become familiar with the forthcoming Google Glass, the wearable, Android powered smart glasses are drawing attention from state and local governments. Google Glass has been in a large scale beta with a group of early adopters and Google developers. This group was able to purchase the "explorer edition" of Google [...]

The Numbers Are In: Playstation 4 Does 1 Million Units In First Day

By |Gaming|

"Short sale" doesn't seem to be in the vocabulary of Sony Electronics these days. First day sale numbers for their next gen console the PlayStation 4 are in and they sold through every bit of 1 million units on day one. Now that also includes all pre-orders from the likes of Amazon, Best Buy, Game [...]

GDC About To Embark On First Ever App Developer’s Conference

By |Apps, Developers, Events|

If you're hardcore into tech and gaming or a game developer than you are more than familiar with GDC or the Game Developer's Conference. Unlike conventions like E3 GDC brings the best game developers from across the country and around the world together to share ideas, hear great speakers, learn and see the next generation [...]

Control Your “Grow Room” Anywhere You Go With xGrower

By |Apps, Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks|

xGrower Grow Room App Diego Bruno has been in the IT field for over a decade. He's also a hobbyist grower who enjoys growing "plants" in a closet in his home. Like many indoor growers, his lighting, water flow and other equipment needed for growing "plants" is reliant on timers. Most of those timers haven't [...]

MIT to Give All Undergrads $100 worth of Bitcoin

By |Bitcoin, Editors' Picks|

Some pretty interesting news came out of MIT on Tuesday. The MIT Bitcoin Club - the fact that there is such a club is news in and of itself - "raised half a million dollars for a project to distribute $100 in bitcoin to every undergraduate student at MIT this fall."MIT Bitcoin Club, "Announcing the [...]

LINEVENT: Groupon for Events [One Spark Preview]

By |One Spark 2014|

Perhaps the best description of LINEVENT is that it is more-or-less a Groupon type platform for events. This seems like a great way to raise awareness, and market an event on the cheap.

Instagram hits 200m Users: Good Sign For Oculus?

By |Apps|

Sometime during the night of 25 March 2014, Instagram added its 200 millionth user. The photosharing application has been growing steadily, adding around 50 million users in the last six months. The success of Instagram shows that Facebook can, indeed, foster and help grow a successful company.

Live Nation Gives A Huge Facelift To Their iOS App

By |Apps|

Bringing the very best of live music to the iPhone and iPod touch, Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) unveiled its completely re-imagined iOS 7 app today. The proprietary technology, developed in-house, now provides the best mobile app concert experience in the marketplace: search and discovery of artists and shows, a seamless ticket purchase process, and [...]

iHeartRadio Continues To Se Explosive Growth

By |Apps, Editors' Picks, News|

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 [...]