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Periscope updates its iOS livestreaming app, Android version coming soon

Apr02
by on April 2, 2015 at 6:38 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, livestreaming, Periscope, Product Updates

Periscope
Twitter’s new livestreaming iOS app Periscope been updated to display broadcasts from people you follow more prominently. The updated app now displays broadcasts from people you follow at the top of your feed, so they’re easier to find in the ocean of streams from other Periscope users. In addition, follower notifications are now turned off by default. The company says it’s working to add more granular control so you only get alerts you care about. Plus, you can now choose not to share your location before broadcasting. If you do disclose where you are, the map display now gives a…

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Microsoft updates Outlook for iOS and Android with a new address book and calendar improvements

Apr02
by on April 2, 2015 at 4:54 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, email, ios, Outlook, Product Updates

Outlook update
Microsoft has updated its Outlook email apps for iOS and Android with a raft of new features, rounding out the address book, calendar and search functions. The People section has evolved from displaying only your top contacts to a full-blown address book, offering a unified view of all your contacts from all your email accounts in the app, as well as those stored only on your device. It now lets you search, start a new email or phone call, spot your contacts’ location on a map and even surfaces all the emails, appointments and files shared with each person. If…

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Google to drop China’s CNNIC Root Certificate Authority after trust breach

Apr02
by on April 2, 2015 at 1:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Last month, a Chinese certificate authority issued valid security certificates for a number of domains, including Google’s, without their permission, which resulted in a major trust breach in the crypto chain. CNNIC had delegated its authority to Egyptian intermediary MCS Holdings to issue the certificates in question and the company installed it in a man-in-the-middle proxy internally. Google said in its original post that CNNIC had “delegated their substantial authority to an organization that was not fit to hold it.” Today, the company has updated its post saying it will drop the CNNIC root certificate authority entirely after a joint investigation into what happened, despite…

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