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Flipboard for iOS now lets you share stories directly with other users

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by on March 14, 2014 at 2:21 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

Flipboard has facilitated story sharing before, but it often felt inefficient. You can distribute a link via email, SMS or a social network, but then the recipient needs to see the link and launch Flipboard to read the article. Now, Flipboard supports direct sharing so you can send and receive stories without leaving the app. While you’re reading an interesting piece, you can hit the share button at the top of the screen and select the new Flipboard icon, represented by a red circle and white silhouette. As you type – the updated iOS app supports both usernames and email…

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JScrambler gives Javascript self-defence skills to fight off exploits

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by on March 14, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Updates

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As we’ve seen with hacking cases time and again, the Javascript in Web apps can be vulnerable to attacks that, as a developer, you want to do your best to avoid. JScrambler, a tool for making your code harder to read and manipulate, has today been updated with a self-protection feature. “It is a combination of anti-tampering and anti-debugging,” says JScrambler’s Pedro Fortuna. “The former transforms the JavaScript into a form where if someone tries to change it – which is usually the case with most attacks – even if is just a single character, the code will detect that…

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Skype for Xbox One gets synced chats, push notifications, contact filtering for who is online, and more

Mar14
by on March 14, 2014 at 1:32 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets

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Skype today released the first update for its Xbox One app, adding new features and squashing a bunch of bugs. The new version is rolling out gradually, but if you don’t see it on your console you should be able to grab it soon. First and foremost, Skype says it has improved the chat component. If you’re using Skype on your computer, phone, or tablet as well as your Xbox One, the app should now keep your conversations in sync. The Microsoft-owned company says it has reduced the number of missed messages “to make your chat experience even better.” Chat…

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UK retailer Morrisons suffers payroll data theft affecting “thousands” of staff

Mar14
by on March 14, 2014 at 11:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

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UK supermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed that it is looking into a data breach that saw “thousands” of staff payroll details posted to a website, revealing details of pay grades and bank account information. Regarding the data theft, Morrisons today said: On Thursday 13th March Morrisons was made aware that data from its staff payroll system had been stolen, published on the internet and sent on a disc to a newspaper. This data theft included bank account details.  Morrisons immediately ensured it was taken off the website. Initial investigations suggest that this theft was not the result of an external penetration…

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Tribesports now wants to be the ultimate fitness-tracking app on Android

Mar14
by on March 14, 2014 at 11:05 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Reviews

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From Runtastic and Endomondo, to Strava and RunKeeper, there’s no shortage of GPS fitness-tracking apps out there. So when the good folks at Tribesports launched their own incarnation for iPhone back in January, well, one wondered what they could bring to the table that wasn’t already available. But we weren’t disappointed. Tribesports Training is striving to be the ultimate fitness-tracking application, recording, analyzing and instructing across multiple disciplines. And now, it’s finally available for Android too. Tribesports for Android pretty much replicates its iOS counterpart to its core, and if you’ve used any other similar app (such as RunKeeper), it…

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