Apple is on the cusp of a major milestone as the App Store nears its 50 Billionth app download; and it plans to give users the chance to benefit from the celebration. The company will be giving the person who downloads the 50 billionth app a $10,000 gift card to the App Store. Those lucky ...
Ford Motor Company is popping its hood for developers with the hopes that hackers can create tools to help drivers better understand fuel economy and improve their overall mpg. The car giant announced a contest, the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge, at the this week’s 2013 New York Auto Show. The company is offering a ...
Back in January, we told you about CollegeHumor’s $5,000 Average Student Scholarship contest, set up to spotlight a forgotten league of American college students: the normal-achievers. Many of these students are so forgettable that their very existence often slips minds. Except for today, as they step out from the shadows and are honored for being ...
Corporate file-sharing site SmartFile is hosting its first-ever open source programming and design competition for Indiana college students with the 2013 SmartFile Platform Bake-Off. The competition will be pit 50 teams of two against one another for 50 days (starting February 28) in a “Bake-Off”, described by SmartFile as: “A competition among a group of ...
HackCollege has teamed up with Sortable.com to give away some amazing prizes like an iPad, Chromebook and a Kindle Paperwhite. Entering is easy, all you have to do is head on over to Facebook to enter a draw to win. To enter simply go to the contest page, and fill out the entry form; contest closes December 19th. We talked about Sortable last month, their site helps ...
Thanks to all of the HackCollege readers for participating in our Office Home & Student 2010 giveaway – we appreciate your entries, but unfortunately only two submissions take home the prize! If you’re just catching up, we ran a nice little giveaway thanks to Microsoft Office. Contestants uploaded their desktops and workspaces to the HackCollege ...
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 is still up for grabs! Many have entered so far, but we’re not done until September 4th—so you still have time to enter! Here’s how: 1. Go to HackCollege’s Facebook Page 2. Upload a photo of your desktop (having HackCollege on your computer screen is just for bonus points, and ...
HackCollege has teamed up with Microsoft to give away some awesome prizes like Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010, and a Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 Limited Edition Artist Series. More info and details on how to enter are located at the bottom of this post. So while you consider what you can win, take a ...
In an effort to bring the fittest fellas a reward to staying in shape, Men’s Fitness and Muscle & Fitness magazine have launched a contest called Fit Man On Campus. With HackCollege as a sponsor of the contest, we want to give you the opportunity to represent your campus and achieve greatness. The team at Men’s ...
Best Buy is on the hunt to find and fund the next big technology-based innovation. Think you have a game-changing idea? Submit it and you could win a piece of the $100,000 pie. A select panel of judges will narrow the entries down to 10 finalists. The grand prize and runner-up winners will be selected ...
QR codes have been around since 1994. It was the Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave company that invented the two dimensional barcode in order to track vehicles during the manufacturing process. Here’s an image of one (in case you haven’t seen one before): Note: To scan the image above, download the free QR reader application on ...
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Editorial Note: Vonage provided me with iTunes credit for test calls, and is also providing the Apple Gift Card valid for an iPad 2 (or other Apple products) to give away to our readers.
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At many schools, more than 50% of students spend at least a semester abroad. If you've been on campus long enough, you've undoubtedly tried it yourself, or had a good friend who did. Now a new app from Vonage promises to make it easy to catch up with your friends.
Time to Call, a free app available for all iOS devices (and Android in the future), allows you to make a one-click purchase (Either $.99 or $1.99 in the US, depending on the country you're calling) for a 15 minute call to pretty much anywhere. There's no account to sign up for, and no credit card information to enter. The entire process is handled by Apple's In-App Purchase system, so all of your billing information is already filled out. As an added bonus, your first call is free.
While you can use your Apple device to call out to any phone number (including landlines), the app doesn't accept incoming calls, which is a bummer. Also, while unused minutes roll over to future calls (for now), those minutes can only be used for the same country or region that they were purchased for.
No, Vonage Time to Call is not a perfect app, nor is it the cheapest way to stay in touch, but it makes the process of calling phones in other countries about as simple as it can ever be, and that may justify the price for many students abroad.
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