Monthly Archives: August 2015

Samsung offers new perks for its Ultimate Test Drive

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A week ago, Samsung launched its “Ultimate Test Drive,” a bold attempt to try and win over iPhone owners by letting them try out Samsung’s latest flagships, including the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+, for one month just for one dollar. That’s already a nice deal, but Samsung has decided to go ahead and make it a bit better anyway.

The company is now offering a $100 Google Play credit for those that buy a Galaxy phone after trying the program. That large chunk of digital currency is good for games, movies, apps, and more through the Play Store, so it’s certainly something to consider. To get the credit, you’ll not only need to buy the phone through the program, but also provide your email address and follow the steps through a quick survey, answering a few questions about the experience you had with the promotion, and share your phone’s purchase information and receipt.

If that’s not enough, how about another $100? If you trade in your iPhone to your carrier or a retailer and stuck with one of the Test Drive phones, Samsung will send you a $100 check, too.

As it stands right now, Samsung’s Ultimate Test Drive page still says there aren’t any phones to send out, which has been the case essentially since the promotion began. The company still says it’s planning on adding more phones, so if you’ve been hoping to give the Test Drive a go, keep an eye out.

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Why Every Tech Company Needs A Chief Evangelist

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Roles within Sales and Marketing has become much more complex amid the cacophony from social networks, the proliferations of mobile devices, and changing TV viewer habits. In fact, the positions merge further when you consider just how much content marketing now plays a part in the sales process, especially in light of the ‘social selling’ trends.

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How To Think About Student Data Privacy

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We are currently in the formative years of an EdTech revolution. A complete digital overhaul of our classrooms is inevitable. New technologies promise to transform education in positive ways. This is not about the Surface, the iPad, Chromebooks and smartboards. Those are all just delivery mechanisms with great PR and marketing departments. The real revolution involves information technologies that rely on data analytics.

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Dutch iPhone 6s and 6s Plus prices leaked, still the same

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The Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus will be unveiled on September 9 and pre-orders may start as early as September 11. The Netherlands will skip that process by the looks of it, new info suggests that the iPhone duo will go directly to stores no September 25 (perhaps a week after other Euro markets like Germany and France).

Techtastic.nl has gotten hold of pricing information for Dutch carriers (KPN, T-Mobile and Vodafone). It suggests that the rumored Rose Gold version of the 6s generation won’t pan out, leaving the standard Silver, Space Gray and Gold options.

Here’s the pricing, which is the same as the current pricing for the outgoing iPhone 6 duo. The only real surprise is that the cheapest models still come with 16GB of storage (that’s what, a minute of 4K video?).

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iPhone 6s iPhone 6s Plus
16GB €699 €799
64GB 7699 €899
128GB €899 €999

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For the first time ever Apple will be streaming the iPhone event on Windows

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Remember how most of the Apple events were streamed live, but only on Mac OS X and iOS? Well, this is about to change.

Yesterday Apple announced it will be holding a press conference on September 9, where it will be announcing the next generation iPhones – the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. As tradition goes, the event will happen in San Francisco on September 9 at 10AM local time.

Digging a bit into the Apple’s official website reveals the event’s placeholder for the live streaming. And there we can find this text:

“Requirements: Live streaming uses Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 7.0 or later, a Mac with Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later, or a PC with Edge on Windows 10. Streaming via Apple TV requires a second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 6.2 or later.”

It seems Apple will be streaming the event on Windows as well. There are some limitation – it requires Windows 10 and Edge browser, but it’s still much better than the Apple-only offer we had so far.

This means no more digging through third-party streams with awful quality, bad sound and huge lag. The official stream will be available to everyone. About time!

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