Switch Opens New Store in Ayala Malls Serin Tagaytay

It looks like they're rapidly expanding. Switch, an authorized Apple Premium Reseller just opened their 19th store at the 2nd level of Ayala Malls Serin in Tagaytay City. We were there this morning and the good news is, they're throwing in an 8% discount on all items today as part of their 8th year anniversary.

Macpower executives Ken Tan and Suzette Cruz officiated the ribbon cutting ceremony and showed us around their new store. They've got tons of Macbook bags, slim sleeves, hard cases, iPhone cases, Lumee (the ultimate selfie tool), Belkin accessories, Belkin car mounts, powerbanks and a lot more. They also have audio speakers and accessories so if you need some fancy ear gear, you should definitely visit them today!

Switch also has other branches in Ayala Malls Solenad, Arcadia in Paseo, Marquee Mall in Angeles Pampanga, UP Technohub, The District Mall in Imus Cavite, The District Mall in Dasmariñas City, Alabang Town Center, Glorietta, UP Town Center, EVIA Lifestyle Center, Bluebay Wal and Robinson's Mall in Las Piñas which they also just recently opened. Come and enjoy the discount today if you are around the area. It's a cool mall too!

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Linksys Launches New SMB Line

It was nostalgic to see the brand again; Linksys which I've been well acquainted "with" for the last 11 years has just recently launched their new business line tagged as Linksys Small Business which holds a few familiar network devices under its belt. If you remember, they had the RV series, some cameras and storage devices that were transferred to Cisco. Now that Linksys is with Belkin, they want to bring the legacy of the brand name back in small business. Hence, the aggressive release of a range of new gigabit switches, routers, surveillance cameras that are designed to meet the connectivity and security needs of small and medium businesses in the Philippines.

International Micro Village Inc. (Authorized distributor of Linksys in the Philippines) had a small luncheon in Conti's Greenbelt 2 a few days ago to brief the resellers about the new devices. Some press and online peeps were there too. Jai Thampi, Head of Product Management for Linksys in Asia Pacific, Japan, China and Middle East started by explaining about what happened with Cisco, Linksys and Belkin. In a nutshell, nothing has changed much. They will still exist as a separate brand and will continue to get the good things with Belkin and integrate that with Linksys products and vice-versa. They have been successful so far and starting off with new and improved products like these under SOHO devices will show how committed they are to make consumer lives better in the "network" and "Internet" side of things department.

Bringing back the heritage of the Linksys brand hence the best router in the market wrt1900. More technology and investing on more powerful hardware. Their brand research shows that their target market is still SOHO. They think about how the business grows and give the public fundamental working network devices. This is the Linksys SMB Product strategy, they will make their approach scalable so the network would be ready as your businesses becomes bigger.

He also mentions that pretty soon home automation on these products will be done much like the WEMO technology they do in Belkin products. Connect, Unify and Power. This is their call.

Shown above is their LINKSYS LCAD03FLN which is a 1080p 3MP Indoor Night Vision Dome Camera, LINKSYS LCAD03VLNOD 1080p a 3MP Outdoor Night Vision Dome Camera, LINKSYS LCAB03VLNOD a 1080p 3MP Outdoor Night Vision Bullet Camera and LINKSYS LCAM0336OD 1080p 3MP which is an Indoor/Outdoor 360 Mini-Dome Camera are all available in authorized resellers of International Micro Village Inc. nationwide!

They presented also two vpn routers, LINKSYS LRT214 and LINKSYS LRT224. The difference is just the 2 Internet ports. It also supports OpenVPN and EasyLinkVPN which makes things easy if you need to access your network remotely. IPSec VPN throughput is at 110 which is higher than other brands. They briefed the resellers pretty much with just these selling points.

I wish I could test these devices out in my home soon especially the VPN routers. Other than that, their security cameras looks promising. I didn't like what it aesthetically looks like though it might be a standard that they are following that's why it' looks like that (compared to the old WVC cams they had). Will I get to test them out soon? I hope so. 

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FUTUREWORLD Opens Second Store at SM Masinag

A couple of minutes away from Quezon City is SM Masinag, located at Sumulong Highway in Antipolo City. This is one of the places quite frequented by residents of Rizal, Marikina and nearby neighborhoods. They of course are mostly residential and these are real deal shoppers. They need something to satisfy their Apple and Apple accessory itch and with nice gusto FUTUREWORLD put up shop on this mall. 

Of course since this is the opening, we had to get the place blessed and dedicated to God.

Executives and partners of the store made this bit more special by cutting the ribbon and starting the event with dedicating the place with the Lord first. For giving them the resources to put this up, I don't think they would do anything less because they were given the chance to have this awesome franchise. The Apple products, accessories and some other branded gadgets were there. Let's take a look!

It was colorful, remarkably design wise they have one of the best selections of sleeves and covers. The headphones from brands like Monster, Beats, Marshall,  Marley, Bose were all there. I'm sure the choosy  audiophiles would find this place like their second home. There were also docks of different shapes, sizes and brands which I had a lot of fun taking a look at for my IPAD2. The other Apple devices just had all of us salivating on the latest models and they even got training available for free if you purchase one from them, they've got you covered!

Some of the gadgets which I find SO USEFUL is this wireless charger. You just need to have a receiver attached to your phone and put it on top of that black pad and your phone would charge like magic.

There were also small but POWERFUL speakers systems, Smart TV's that connect to the Internet and several Mac's that you'll find so amazing. I wanted one for myself of course!

Gorgeous celebrities like Ms. Kelly Misa and Anton Del Rosario was there too. We had games with them inside the store and won some iphone cases too ^_^

Best of all, before you buy anything on the store you can actually try out the ones on display so if you are up to purchasing high ticket items like  Mac's and IPAD's it's a better deal if you try it out first right? Even headphones are there too!

Gerald Senolos country manager of FUTUREWORLD said SM Masinag is a promise for those who are in other areas that have not been serviced by an Apple retailer. Their first branch was SM Bicutan and soon to open more stores in untapped locations nationwide.

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