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Sony PlayStation enthusiasts have been celebrating last week's news that Sony is opening up PlayStation Now, a new service that will stream games to the Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation Vita, Bravia TV's, smartphones and tablets. Many gamers are looking at this as a way to go back to the Sony ecosystem after many may [...]
At the end of day 2 at the 2014 International CES the Techfaster team was headed out of the Venetian and literally bumped into the youngest exhibitor at CES. I noticed that this cute 7 year old girl had an exhibitor badge on, riding on the up escalator. In years past I've seen a few [...]
As gift cards are set to be the most popular gift this holiday season, PayPal just announced the creation of the new PayPal Digital Gift Store. The company also supports payments from gift cards.
Among many thing announced by Apple on Monday at WWDC was HealthKit. The new iOS 8 functionality has been a long-time coming, and has been the subject of several leaks over the past few months. Anyhow, HealthKit acts a central hub/repository where third-party apps can store data in one central location. The idea being that [...]
When John Legere took the helm at T-Mobile, the nation's fourth largest carrier, he was determined to shake things up. He's succeeded at that and continues adding customers in the process. Ever since introducing "un-carrier" initiatives which have included such practices as doing away with long term contracts, early termination fees and even charging for [...]
We’re gearing up for the International Society for Technology in Education 2014 Conference (ISTE) coming up on June 28th. We have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Lightspeed Systems. Lightspeed Systems has a few different products that "make learning safe, mobile and collaborative." Lightspeed Systems Facebook Page We had a chance to [...]
We took a look at some of the phones that set the bar for performance. Although some of the phones we selected are a bit older, they are still of very high quality. Plus, in being a bit older these phones often come with a huge price slash.
For many the world revolves around their smarpthone. Even if they have a home phone system, contact numbers and information lives on the smartphone. So in this day and age, manny phone calls from home phones and even some office phones, start by looking up someone's phone number in your smartphone contact list. Don't worry [...]
On Wednesday, HTC held a launch event. It was widely assumed that this event would mark the release of a new HTC smartwatch. According to Re/code, the wearable was not ready, and thus the launch of the watch was pushed back. HTC Americas head Jason Mackenzie told Re/code: We had originally planned to have a wearable [...]
We’re gearing up for the International Society for Technology in Education 2014 Conference (ISTE) coming up on June 28th. We have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Atomic Learning. Atomic Learning is a content repository of sorts, offering training and learning resources. We had a chance to ask the Atomic Learning Team [...]
There are a lot of solutions out there for web filtering. Many of them are geared towards enterprise and when they realized there was a market in K-12 they opened up a new vertical with those enterprise filters. The problem is, those filters, typically blocked entire websites. It's ok to decide that your administrative assistants [...]
We're gearing up for the International Society for Technology in Education 2014 Conference (ISTE) coming up on June 28th. We have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is VariQuest. VariQuest offers educators with a ton of Visual Learning Tools, aimed at allowing teachers the ability to create effective visual aids [...]
Oh those were the days. Do you remember back to elementary school and every Friday morning the teacher would pass out the Weekly Reader. It was your very own copy of a newspaper with interesting stories, puzzles and games just for kids. I'm pretty sure in the back of my mind it was the Weekly [...]
As we are gearing up to hit the Alabama Educational Technology Conference (AETC) this week, we have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Lumens. We spoke to them while we were at the FETC Conference earlier this year. Anyhow, Lumens makes a ton of interesting products. The standout of [...]
The majority of math-based apps, software, and games are developed by adults, necessarily. Text-books are written by adults. Courses are taught by adults. While there is nothing wrong with that, Shooloo thinks incorporating students into the creation of these components helps the learning process. The Shooloo Team was kind enough to tell us about their product, [...]
On the heels of Monday's massive gaming announcement, Google just dropped another massive bomb on us. On Tuesday, the Mountain View company announced a new project: Android Wear. In Google's own words: "Today we’re announcing Android Wear, a project that extends Android to wearables. And we’re starting with the most familiar wearable—watches."[
Sony played it a little different at SXSW Interactive this year. The electronics giant from Japan didn't use the stage to pimp the latest numbers for PS4. Most of the world already knows that they are killing Microsoft's Xbox One, (even Nintendo is). This year at SXSW they played to the true tech geek and [...]
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 [...]
Apple recently settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) again, for charges to consumers iTunes accounts that stemmed from purchases that their kids may have made doing in app purchases. For the ease of the user, when you make an in-app purchase with Apple's iTunes app store on your iOS device it asks for your [...]
If you live in a major city or a high traffic area and you're a Verizon customer those days of being packed into your local Verizon Wireless store like a pack of sardines could be over. Verizon Wireless announced on Tuesday that they intend to build out several big box lifestyle stores over the next [...]
