Best Buy Announces the Closing of Future Shop

According to Digital Marketing Agency, “US consumer electronics chain Best Buy has announced that it is closing its Canadian subsidiary, Future Shop, and converting 65 of its 131 stores into Best Buy outlets.”

Such a move results in 500 full-time jobs and 1,000 part-time jobs. Best Buy has owned Future Shop, Canada's biggest electronics brand, since 2001. Best Buy will encompass 192 Canadian stores after the changeover is totally completed.

Best Buy said, “it would be investing C$200m (£106.5m; $158m) in its operations there over the next two years. There would also be restructuring costs of at least C$200m.”

“Technology news website Engadget mentioned, “although Best Buy currently may be the de facto big box tech store in North America, it would face problem due to a coming of stiff price of power grab.” In addition, other observers consist of a mixed view of the development.

Facebook stole Lulea designs, claims British firm

Digital Marketing Agency, British modular data center maker BladeRoom Group (BRG) has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in a US court accusing the online giant of stealing its designs to build its Lulea data center and then share those designs with the industry through the Open Compute Project. 

As regards the lawsuit, both BladeRoom and Facebook have refused to make public statements as yet; however, BladeRoom staff have confirmed the firm is in litigation with Facebook. 

The lawsuit says: “Facebook’s misdeeds might never have come to light had it decided that simply stealing BRG’s intellectual property was enough. Instead, Facebook went further when it decided to encourage and induce others to use BRG’s intellectual property through an initiative created by Facebook called the ‘Open Compute Project’.”

G20 Leaders Accidentally Emailed Football Organisers

G20 leaders’ personal data leaked. According to Digital Marketing Agenc, organisers of the Asian Cup in Australia before the G20 summit in Brisbane in November 2014 had received email from 31 world leaders, detailing in passport numbers and visa.

An unnamed Department of Immigration director wrote to the Australian Privacy Commissioner in an email obtained by the Guardian following a Freedom of Information request, “Given that the risks of the breach are considered very low and the actions that have been taken to limit the further distribution of the email, I do not consider it necessary to notify the clients of the breach.”

Officer explained, “10 minutes after receiving, the email was deleted. Additionally, the Asian Cup football tournament organizers said they did not believe the email was accessible or stored on their servers.” The 31 world leaders' dates of birth also inserted in the mail, however, it did not included personal addresses and other contact details.

However, it should not be surprise due the fact that those personal data are already available in the public domain given their prominent positions."

Samsung Allegedly Rolls Out Galaxy S6 Dual-Sim Version under Pseudonym ‘Galaxy S6 Duos’

(Digital Marketing Agency) – Just as the availability of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge is near, Samsung is rumored to develop another variant of Galaxy S6 dubbed as Galaxy S6 Duos as the leaked snapshot, by Journalist Antonio Monaco, above shows.

The photos show the Galaxy S6 with two nano-SIM card slots. Monaco even shared an image showing how the slot can be removed, and how the SIMs can be inserted into the Samsung smartphone. The model number of the Duos variant is pegged to be SM-G9200, according to BGR.

The flagship also features a 16-megapixel rear camera, 5-megapixel camera at the front, 32GB/64GB/128GB internal storage, and a 2,550mAh battery with Ultra Power Saving Mode and wireless charging capabilities. Connectivity options include LTE support, NFC, IR Blaster, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, and on the software front, it runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop out-of-the-box, wrapped under an overhauled TouchWiz UI.

U.K. Consumers Win Safari Web Tracking Court of Appeal Case

Digital Marketing Agency, U.K. consumers have been given the right to sue Google over revelations from 2012 that it bypassed security settings in Apple’s Safari browser to track users.

The judgement read: "They concern what is alleged to have been the secret and blanket tracking and collation of information, often of an extremely private nature, as specified in the confidential schedules, about and associated with the claimants’ Internet use, and the subsequent use of that information for about nine months."

One of the claimants, Judith Vidal-Hall, said: "The Court of Appeal has ensured that Google cannot use its vast resources to evade English justice. Ordinary computer users like me will now have the right to hold this giant to account before the courts for its unacceptable, immoral, and unjust actions."