Turkish court half-heartedly orders end to YouTube ban
Turkey’s Twitter ban may have come to an end, but the country’s block on YouTube remains steadfast. In the latest development to this censorship saga, Reuters reports that a court in the Turkish capital has declared the YouTube situation a human rights violation, and instructed that the block be removed. Well, almost, as the court did state 15 specific videos could stay restricted, but that a blanket ban was unnecessary. The ruling tipped its hat to a similar decision from Turkey’s Constitutional Court, which previously declared the Twitter lockdown a violation of free speech. Regardless of this official order, it’s still up to the powers that be to do the unbanning, but we doubt they’ll be up for bearing the pressure to do so much longer. If certain politically sensitive videos stay unavailable when that happens, though, then the Turkish Prime Minister and Co. have kind of won anyway, we’d say.
Filed under: Internet
Source: Reuters
Samsung Galaxy S5 comes late to Verizon, but on a 2-for-1 deal
Verizon often takes its sweet time getting the latest phones, and Samsung’s new alpha dog, the Galaxy S5, is no exception — AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint all nabbed it first. However, at least Big Red’s sweetening the pot on the 5.1-inch, Full HD, Snapdragon 801-equipped handset. While it’s now on pre-order at $200 for a two year deal or $600 sans contract, you can get a second GS5 (or other select models) for “free.” The only catch is that you’ll need to sign up for another two-year plan, so the phone is essentially half-price with two contracts. Still, you’d be able to chuckle at your Windows Phone-using pals, who’d pay the same price for essentially last year’s model.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Samsung, Verizon
Via: GSM Arena
Source: Verizon
Scaling Up with Lead Generation Companies
In today’s expanding—and oftentimes overcrowded—marketplace, the importance of lead generation has become increasingly clear. Not only are businesses looking for new and effective ways to capture needed sales and close lucrative deals, they are turning to lead generation companies to assist in the process. Using full-service sales solutions, businesses across industries are tapping into new sales pipelines with clear results: measureable and traceable increases in sales revenue and market share—two successes every business wants to achieve.
Lead generation
Lead generation companies function in a number of very important ways. Using rigorous and effective advertising, including positive word of mouth and referrals, as well as “natural” search engine results—which distinguish real search results from paid advertisements—lead generation companies can increase consumer interest and produce sales.
Potentiality
Because every sales lead could convert to an actual sale, the potentiality involved in lead generation is high. Businesses understand that the right lead could produce big revenue and increased market share. Instant lead generation makes it easy for your company to benefit from additional sales and growth without the initial and ongoing expense of hiring and training new staff. That’s because lead generation companies supplement your team of sales professionals or work in conjunction with your sales team to generate leads and assist with the closure process.
Not all leads are equal, though; which is why partnering with the right lead generation company is essential. In addition to supplementing your sales goals, the company will also need to query those leads and set up appointments for your team of sales professionals.
Appointment setting
Appointment setting seems like an easy job to do, but, when done properly and thoroughly, the process can require hours of exhaustive communication and legwork to secure the highest quality leads possible. Because every lead goes through a rigorous pre-qualification process, you can be sure every lead you receive is strong and backed by the commitment of the lead generation team behind it. Simply put, good leads take the guesswork out of sales.
Sales prospecting
Lead generation companies find the customers who are interested in doing business with your company now. No more wasting time with dead-end appointments and customers on the fence. Sales prospecting involves identifying, locating, and contacting prospective customers (or clients), so your team of sales professionals can move in and close the deal. But for the process to work effectively, you will need qualified people.
Lead Generation Companies
When prospecting potential lead generation companies, consider the following:
- Does the company produce the highest quality leads in the industry?
- Does the company deliver detailed reports, recordings, statistics and other useful telemarketing services?
- Who are the team members, and how integral will they be to each sales campaign?
- Does the company offer lead generation, appointment settings and different techniques and technologies available within the industry? If so, which techniques and technologies?
The above-mentioned questions should help to give you a good idea whether the lead generation company you’ve chosen is equipped to help your business grow.
Lead generation companies offer the complete end−to−end solutions every business needs to survive. Click the link to learn more about Teleark lead generation company. This full−service business to business (B2B) sales outsourcing company may be your only shot at truly scaling your business all the way to the top—one sales lead at a time.
Vine updates app with direct message capability
Vine on Thursday rolled out a handy new feature to the Android and iOS mobile app experience. As part of the latest update users can now record and send messages to other Vine users in a private, direct manner. According to the software developers you’ll be able to send to one or multiple people whether in your network or not.
Your messages inbox has two sections: Friends (people you know) and Other (people outside your network).
To help avoid being flooded with spam and unwanted clips, Vine will let users opt to receive messages from only those they follow. Should you opt to allow for all users to send you messages, Vine will split them into in-network and out-of-network.
Rounding things out, Vine now allows for customization of profile colors.
Vine is a free download in a variety of app stores.
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TAG Heuer launches luxury phone with ‘perpetual power reserve’
When it comes to outlandish technology on phones, it’s the companies that make you go “what, them?” that are on the cutting edge. TAG Heuer (what, them?) is launching the Vertu-troubling Meridiist Infinite with something the company is calling a perpetual power reserve. In fact, the company is merely harnessing Wysips’ transparent solar panel, which shoves a clear photovoltaic cell between the glass and LCD elements of the display. It’ll automatically begin trickle-charging your phone as soon as the screen is exposed to natural and some artificial light with at least enough power to maintain the battery level in standby mode. The company is knocking out 1,911 units of the Meridiist Infinite, but considering that TAG charges nearly $7,000 for a FroYo device, you’d probably prefer to buy a solar panel for your actual house.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Samsung still makes Windows Phones: ATIV SE up for pre-order at Verizon
With Windows Phone 8.1 now free, we may start seeing more announcements like this: Verizon’s just put the Samsung ATIV SE handset up for pre-order. As we saw in an earlier leak, it’s essentially a high-spec Galaxy S4 with Windows 8 (not 8.1) instead of Android. Though that’s been superceded by the Galaxy S5 on Android, the internals are still not too shabby, especially for a WP8 handset: a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 quad-core CPU, LTE, 2GB of RAM, a 16 13-megapixel camera and a 2,600mAh battery. Naturally, Samsung’s also thrown in its own goodies whether you want them or not — though some, like the TV remote control app, actually look useful. Verizon says it’ll ship them out by April 12th at the latest and, if you go for one at $200 on a two-year contract, you’ll even get a second one free.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Samsung, Verizon
Via: The Verge
Source: Verizon
BBC to extend iPlayer catch-up period to 30 days
Remember when the BBC’s latest chief pledged to revamp the iPlayer? His bosses at the BBC Trust have just rubber-stamped the decision to extend the catch-up window from seven days to 30. The changes will take some time to implement, since there’s various technical and legal hoops to jump through, but the corporation expects the new system to be in place by the summer. Happy viewing.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, HD
Source: BBC, BBC iPlayer Radio (Twitter)
Galaxy S5 Zoom leaked in new image
A leaked image that has found its way onto the web claiming to be the Galaxy S5 Zoom could be the real deal, offering the first look at the latest smartphone and camera hybrid from Samsung.
The Galaxy S5 Zoom is expected to feature a 20-Megapixel camera with 10x optical zoom, Xenon flash and OIS (optical image stabilisation), together with a quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 4.8-inch 720p display.
Whilst it’s difficult to judge the physical dimensions of the new Galaxy S5 Zoom it is thought it will resemble the same size of the Galaxy S4 Zoom but the lens won’t protrude quite as much as it did on the earlier model.
The Galaxy S5 Zoom is expected to be released sometime in May.
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How To: Stream Spotify, Pandora, and Rdio to your ROCKI with AirAudio
ROCKI has finally finished its Kickstarter campaign having completely nailed their target and units are beginning to find their way to the backers of the project. The kind team over at ROCKI have provided AndroidGuys with a review unit so be sure to look out for that in the near future.
However, whilst we’re busy figuring out what colour case we want the ROCKI to have, here’s a little tip to get Spotify streaming to the little device while we wait for official support through the ROCKI app. Music streaming service integration was a bit focus of their Kickstarter campaign but with the app launched, many early birds are finding that the Spotify, Rdio, and Pandora etc. integration isn’t quite ready and will only pick up local content on your device, but that doesn’t mean you can’t stream those services to the ROCKI.
With your ROCKI setup as an audio receiver, it effectively mimics an AirPlay receiver to an Apple device and there’s a brilliant app on the Google Play Store called AirAudio that can utilise AirPlay receivers on Android.
For this to work properly, you’ll need the pro version of AirAudio which is a small in-app purchase, and also ROOT access on your device.
So here’s what you do:
1. Open Spotify or your favourite media streaming app on your Android device.
2. Begin playing a song.
3. AirAudio will detect an audio output. Open AirAudio and let is scan your home network for your receivers.
4. AirAudio will find your ROCKI on your network, simply tap it, let it connect, and let the music play.
And that’s all there is to it. ROCKI plans on releasing official support for Spotify and other music streaming services through their official ROCKI app, but in the mean time this is definitely a feasible alternative.
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Intel unveils 64-bit kernel for Android 4.4 KitKat
Intel has officially announced that they have completed early work on an Android 4.4 KitKat kernel that support a 64-bit architecture.
With this release, the company ported, validated and tested the Android Open Source code on [Intel Architecture], taking on the work that developers typically would need to do on their own. This release will provide the ecosystem with 64-bit kernel support for development of next-generation devices.
Whilst this doesn’t mean that we’ll start to see 64-bit Android devices anytime soon, it does mean that as soon as Google provide full Android support for 64-bit, that Intel will be ready to support it on their chips.
Intel isn’t the first to support 64-bit, with ARM already releasing their support for the architecture as early as November of last year, and Qualcomm releasing their Snapdragon 410 based on their specification.
Perhaps Google I/O will reveal Google’s plans on fully supporting 64-bit?
[Intel]
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