Saturday
Mar282015

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 3/22-3/28

Saturday
Mar282015

Share relevant content to your Twitter followers with Juice for iOS

Want to be a better Twitter user and share information your followers would appreciate? The new Juice app wants to help you out there. The iOS app is free and currently in beta. It makes use of the curation service Paper.li to study the interests of your followers and share with you on a daily basis relevant topics that they might enjoy reading. Of course, you can check out the content first on your own.

You can swipe down to see how viral a post is and who else in your network shared it. You can swipe up to read the article. And swipe left or right to go through the articles of the day. You can have the app notify you if it has articles ready for you to peruse through. Juice adds images to the tweets, so it brings in a visual aspect to your tweets as well. At the moment though, you can’t schedule tweets yet.

Source: The Next Web | Download: Apple iTunes App Store (Free)

Saturday
Mar282015

Kadalock puts the Bluetooth lock on your bottle cage

Kadalock differentiates itself from the other Bluetooth bike locks out on the market by making use of your existing water bottle cage. The designers behind the Kadalock take into consideration how you can easily take out the bottle cage by hiding the screws underneath a supplied metal strip that you can take out if you unlock the Kadalock. The aluminium contraption itself is weather-resistant and has an electrically retractable 120cm rubber-coated steel cable. Admittedly, it looks a bit filmsy but the company said you would need a hydraulic cutter to cut it.

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Saturday
Mar282015

Breaking: Future Shop stores closing across Canada as Best Buy consolidates

It's an end of an era for Canadian retailer Future Shop as all its stores in Canada are shut down. 66 Future Shop stores will be shut down immediately and another 65 stores will be closed for a week while they are converted to Best Buy stores. Future Shop says that approximately 500 full-time and 1,000 part-time positions will be eliminated as a result of the consolidation.

Best Buy acquired Future Shop in 2001 for US $580 million but continued to operate Future Shop as a separate brand. As a result of the consolidation Best Buy will have 197 stores in Canada.

Best Buy plans to invest up to $200 million to build a leading multi-channel customer experience on the Best Buy brand. As of this writing, Future Shop's website has a message about the consolidation and directs customers to Best Buy Canada.

Source: Future Shop