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Samsung shuts its flagship London store at Westfield

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by on December 24, 2014 at 2:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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Ever been to a Samsung Experience Store? If not your options in the UK just dropped by one. Samsung has closed its flagship store at London’s Westfield Stratford City mall. One of ten Samsung Experience Stores in the UK, the retail space has now been “permanently closed” with images of the dismantled store shared on Twitter. And it's all over for the flagship #Samsung Experienced store in @westfieldstrat #signofthetimes pic.twitter.com/P03eNivsab — Najeeb Khan (@najeebster) December 23, 2014 While the Samsung Experience Stores carry the South Korea manufacturer’s brand they’re run by Carphone Warehouse. They were designed to showcase the best of the company’s products…

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Protect yourself from Sony-style hacks with these cyber security resources

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by on December 24, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Offers

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Tracking the Santa trackers: Google versus Microsoft and Norad – which is better?

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by on December 24, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Father Christmas, Google, Insider, Norad, santa, Santa trackers

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Father Christmas has begun his annual flight from the North Pole to deliver gifts to everyone on the Nice List but which Santa Tracker is best at following him as he makes his epic journey? We’re monitoring the Google Santa Tracker and NORAD Tracks Santa, which has enlisted the help of Microsoft, to see which best keeps the best eye on Saint Nick on his travels. Perhaps due to the magic qualities of Santa’s sleigh and his reindeers, the two trackers disagree on his route. Both conclude that the first stop of the year for Father Christmas was in Russia but Norad’s satellites say he…

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Ireland says US courts need its permission to view emails on Dublin servers

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by on December 24, 2014 at 10:12 am
Posted In: Around the Web, court case, email, Ireland

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Microsoft has been fighting a US court order demanding access to emails on stored on a server in Dublin, Ireland since December 2013 and it’s finally got a break. The Irish government has declared that US authorities will need to work with it if they want to access data stored in the country. The central argument in Microsoft’s case has been that as US search warrants can’t be executed in a foreign country, court orders also shouldn’t have power over data stored overseas. In a court filing, Ireland says it will consider and process requests for access to data but that…

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