student | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 06 May 2016 11:19:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png student | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Apple Music looks to court students with 50 percent off membership https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/apps-software/jon-martindale/apple-music-looks-to-court-students-with-50-percent-off-membership/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/apps-software/jon-martindale/apple-music-looks-to-court-students-with-50-percent-off-membership/#respond Fri, 06 May 2016 11:11:11 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=291951 Apple Music isn't doing as well as the higher ups want, even though it managed to net itself 10 million+ users by the start of this year. To try and improve those numbers even more, Apple is giving the service a full makeover for later this year and is offering students 50 per cent discounts …

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Apple Music isn't doing as well as the higher ups want, even though it managed to net itself 10 million+ users by the start of this year. To try and improve those numbers even more, Apple is giving the service a full makeover for later this year and is offering students 50 per cent discounts on their membership, to try and bring in a young audience.

This discount will apply to students of many countries, including the U.S., UK, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, all of whom will be able to get an Apple music monthly membership at just $5 per month or £5 in the UK. This is a noticeable drop from the $10/£10 regular pricing, though hardly life changing.

Students who sign up to the service will be eligible for the discount for four years, whether they retain their subscription or not, so even if you sign up, cancel and then join again a few months later, you can still benefit from the discount (as per TechCrunch).

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You can take advantage of the discount right now, as well as the current three months free-trial that Apple offers, meaning your first year of Apple Music subscription could end up only costing you £45.

This is much more competitive pricing than the likes of the artist backed Tidal platform, which offers standard quality streams at £10 per month, or hi-fidelity tracks at £20 per month. Both may continue to struggle to knock Spotify off of the top spot though, as its service is still offered for free with ad support, as well as premium offerings without interruption.

That said, Apple Music has expanded faster than Spotify in recent months, though it does have a large iOS install base to push it service too.

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KitGuru Says: Do you think this latest move by Apple to court students will net it a lot of new subscribers? It is quite a tempting offer, especially for traditionally cash-strapped youngsters. 

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Student charged over homemade 3D cam rig https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/student-charged-over-homemade-3d-cam-rig/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/student-charged-over-homemade-3d-cam-rig/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:23:53 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=229336 Considering we're now entering the realms of 4K displays becoming cost effective and 8K not too many years away, it seems a little surprising that there's still a market for cam-footage recordings of new movies. While they do tend to beat the DVD screeners to the torrent sites, their quality, canted angle and silhouettes of …

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Considering we're now entering the realms of 4K displays becoming cost effective and 8K not too many years away, it seems a little surprising that there's still a market for cam-footage recordings of new movies. While they do tend to beat the DVD screeners to the torrent sites, their quality, canted angle and silhouettes of other movie goers can really detract from the experience. They also can't capture the 3D effects that so many studios are pushing on us these days, unless you're British student Ciprian Florea, who has been charged with potentially using a homemade 3D camera rig to record a 3D movie.

Florea was busted in November last year, when Cineworld staff spotted him heading into a screening for Gravity, carrying a homemade system made up of two HD cameras. While he denies all claims that he was planning to use it to record the film, the prosecution asserts that the rig would have allowed for the recording of a separate left and right eye image. This is the first time anyone has been charged with attempting to record a 3D movie in all of its dimensions.

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Florea's claim is that as a film student, he was interested in the idea of filming 3D footage of real life, not the film. He also said that the homemade system would not be able to record 3D footage from the movie, though BirminghamMail states that tests performed later showed that it could.

“[Recording the movie is] exactly what he intended to do. That is why he went to the cinema, that is why he bought the tickets to see the 3D film Gravity on that night,” the prosecution Sally Cairns said. “This defendant made a digital camera that would allow him to make a 3D film.”

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KitGuru Says: Obviously we don't condone any piracy, but why would anyone download cam footage? Isn't it worth to at least wait until it's at a higher quality? 

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Destiny blocked on some college and university networks https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/destiny-blocked-on-some-college-and-university-networks/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/destiny-blocked-on-some-college-and-university-networks/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:54:15 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=211289 For most onlookers, the Destiny launch seemed to go off without a hitch earning Activision $500 million in a single day. However, for a lot of students, the experience has been dramatically different as the game isn't accessible on many college and university campus networks worldwide. So far, Bungie is aware of the issue and …

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For most onlookers, the Destiny launch seemed to go off without a hitch earning Activision $500 million in a single day. However, for a lot of students, the experience has been dramatically different as the game isn't accessible on many college and university campus networks worldwide.

So far, Bungie is aware of the issue and has told campus residing students to “stay tuned” for some information that they can share with their network admins in order to make the game accessible, although a fix has yet to be released. The connection problem comes with the error code, centipede- looking up #fixcentipede on Twitter reveals a lot of messages to Bungie from upset day one buyers.

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Bungie has listed a fix that home users can use to fix the problem but those staying on college and university campuses won't have network administration rights, meaning that they can't forward any ports or access the router directly in order to fix things themselves.

Even if Bungie does provide information for students to share with campus network admins, there's no guarantee that the IT team will allow any network changes for the sake of a game.

Destiny launched two days ago for the Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360 and PS3. The game has already made $500 million in sales and could sell as many as 15 million copies by the end of the year.

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KitGuru Says: If you're a student living on campus then maybe hold off on buying Destiny for a week or so  until these connectivity issues get ironed out. Have any of you guys bought Destiny already? What do you think so far?

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Intel struggles dealing tablets to students https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/tablet-pc/jules/intel-struggles-dealing-tablets-to-students/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/tablet-pc/jules/intel-struggles-dealing-tablets-to-students/#respond Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:20:45 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=116657 There are some products that are easy to push to students and others that are a lot harder. Intel seems to be finding out the hard way that supplying the wrong kind of tablets leads to reduced sales. KitGuru hides in the bush with night vision goggles. A story reached KitGuru about a year ago, …

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There are some products that are easy to push to students and others that are a lot harder. Intel seems to be finding out the hard way that supplying the wrong kind of tablets leads to reduced sales. KitGuru hides in the bush with night vision goggles.

A story reached KitGuru about a year ago, which focused on the inability of one African government to implement (what it thought was) a radical new approach to IT and education. Money was made available for several thousand laptops to be given to poor students in order to boost their progress.  While we applaud the effort, the outcome was – perhaps – not so difficult to predict. Supply a starving man with a bread roll, butter and a silver knife – then he's more likely to sell the knife to buy more bread as he is to use it for spreading.

In the UK, a variation of that story means that some education authorities are coy about having out thousands of cool tablets. The resale value – along with the lack of true ruggedisation – means that the good intentions behind any such investment are likely to fall off the tracks soon after implementation.

That brings us to Intel's efforts with its StudyBook. Manufactured for them by Elite Group (ECS), this 7″ tablet has limited ruggedisation and some resistance to liquid spills. Lauded when launched as being ‘close to the Holy Grail' by Ziff Davis in the States, sales have fallen short of what Intel had hoped for.

Original plans targeted sales of up to 4 million units, but – so far – Intel seems to have only just hit 1.6 million. When you compare that to the kind of sales Apple enjoys in the consumer space, you can see just how low it is. What's more disappointing for Intel is that the education market is truly significant. Here in the UK, companies like Alan Sugar's old education specialist Viglen, still bang in massive, multi-million pound revenues during the peak summer season.

Speaking with people inside Intel, they believe that the reason why sales figures have been missed buy around 50% for both StudyBook and UltraBook products is price. The student tablet seems to retail at around $579 (£399), while UltraBooks can easily cost more than $1,500 (£1,000).

The challenge must be, “If you want to charge more than Apple prices – to students or consumers – do you have the brand equity necessary?”

EcoSystem, check. Security, check. Ruggedisation, check. Very high price, check. Whoops?

KitGuru says: We applaud Intel for working hard to create these new markets. Sure, the press will bang on about ‘Sales targets being missed by 50%' etc, but the reality is that Intel had ‘close to zero' tablet sales, but now – with StudyBook – it has sold more than 1.5 million additional units. The same goes for UltraBooks. Missing your sales target by millions of units, misses out the vital fact that your boosted sales into a new market that you didn't have before. Can this kind of price structure succeed, long term, in a Google Android world?  We suspect no.

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