YouTube Lets All Verified Accounts To Stream Live Videos

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqCX6kjzDZzmmZkhYgZHmnMxldiB-etvNbJEE3slvt2BSiJVRukCS1AlF-jCCYak5uYKtoM1iYEiAzU5GMUbCfJkOGzmUZjSUaPFj3GRl4UK1jr8EwneUvHjllXiWiYC_gWNMt2roHavD/s1600/youtube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqCX6kjzDZzmmZkhYgZHmnMxldiB-etvNbJEE3slvt2BSiJVRukCS1AlF-jCCYak5uYKtoM1iYEiAzU5GMUbCfJkOGzmUZjSUaPFj3GRl4UK1jr8EwneUvHjllXiWiYC_gWNMt2roHavD/s1600/youtube.jpg" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>YouTube </i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is some good news for people who like to stream live videos on YouTube. This access was granted only to a small number of accounts, which had a minimum following. After Thursday's announcement, YouTube is letting anyone with a verified account in good standing to stream live videos to the Web.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The requirement of 100 subscribers was brought down from 1000 followers in May.  Relaxing the restriction based on the number of followers will grant access to a larger number of accounts to enjoy the feature, provided they are verified and in good standing.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">According to YouTube, an account with good standing must have no community guidelines or copyright infractions and should not have any videos blocked by the site's own content ID in the last six months. The status of your account can be checked <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/features" target="_blank">here</a></strong>. If the account is not verified, users can do it right away by requesting a verification code and entering it on the site to verify the account.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In addition to streaming live sports, news, music and games, users can also stream a Google+ Hangout on Air on YouTube. This new feature will give a better shot at connecting with fans and attracting more participants.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"To give you even more ways to connect with fans, you can now launch a Google+ Hangout on Air directly from the YouTube Live events manager," Satyajeet Salgar, product manager, and Tim James, software engineer, <a href="http://youtubecreator.blogspot.in/2013/12/now-you-can-live-stream-on-youtube.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>wrote</strong> </a>in the company's blog. "This gives you a simple way to reach your fans live and is the ideal way to invite participants to join your show."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Google-owned YouTube has an incredible <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">statistics</a> </strong><strong>report</strong>, with more than 1 billion unique visitors each month  and daily subscriptions by new users are up by four times since last year. The latest expansion poses a bigger challenge to other companies such as Ustream, Brightcove and Livestream.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Source :<a href="http://www.hngn.com/articles/19499/20131213/youtube-lets-verified-accounts-stream-live-videos-regardless-number-followers.htm"> HNGN </a></i></span></span><br />

YouTube Lets All Verified Accounts To Stream Live Videos

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Yahoo Mail still down for some users

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigs9YUW46nLEWUOeaaXtlByPTxu0bNonbcYemzOMYpQREDZMiWz7rXK4Jos4lwwWjZlZ8Kzpd9xREoa00KB3nAaVLPa1mu70JIPyvnEcHxphLRLfCftD-tLapY2qU23kcn_8MltJ9MPrse/s1600/new-yahoo-logo-100049190-gallery.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigs9YUW46nLEWUOeaaXtlByPTxu0bNonbcYemzOMYpQREDZMiWz7rXK4Jos4lwwWjZlZ8Kzpd9xREoa00KB3nAaVLPa1mu70JIPyvnEcHxphLRLfCftD-tLapY2qU23kcn_8MltJ9MPrse/s1600/new-yahoo-logo-100049190-gallery.png" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span itemprop="articleBody description text">Yahoo’s Mail</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span itemprop="articleBody description text"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Yahoo’s Mail service remains down for some users a day after the company said access would be restored.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The problem began affecting users Monday night, due to a hardware problem in one of its mail data centers, <a href="http://yahoomail.tumblr.com/post/69707524863/an-important-update-for-our-users">said</a> Jeffrey Bonforte, senior VP of communication products, in a statement recently posted on Tumblr.<br /> Yahoo first acknowledged the outage early Tuesday afternoon Eastern time in a post on its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YahooMail">Facebook</a> page, as well as on <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/410520181526364160">Twitter</a>. Yahoo said it was aiming to restore access within the next few hours after those posts but, as of Wednesday morning, Mail was still down for some people.<br /> ”The issue has been harder to fix than we originally expected,” Bonforte said. Dozens of the company’s employees are working to get the problem fixed by 6 p.m. Eastern time, he said.<br /><i>Source : <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2079440/yahoo-mail-still-down-for-some-users-after-an-attempted-fix.html">PCWorld </a></i></span>

Yahoo Mail still down for some users

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Apple Users Complain That Apple's New Software Is Full Of Problems

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv8R75mqHGPnKlIHNF0ra2AFy2rR9aPTSpd58jAai8jTtryQVSEeh92xn9RXXrPEh67HrgjCnME5y6ICNA79icpKraQbqNiM9FZ55YCRVUA8dhqtUqe4gjKzRNBRuMcXf0vNNYxe3yR7M/s1600/Apple_Users_Complain_That_Apple's-3d2c84f407a38945d021118b0e868e2c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv8R75mqHGPnKlIHNF0ra2AFy2rR9aPTSpd58jAai8jTtryQVSEeh92xn9RXXrPEh67HrgjCnME5y6ICNA79icpKraQbqNiM9FZ55YCRVUA8dhqtUqe4gjKzRNBRuMcXf0vNNYxe3yR7M/s320/Apple_Users_Complain_That_Apple's-3d2c84f407a38945d021118b0e868e2c.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="caption" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lawrence Lessig, Harvard professor</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of Apple's most notable fans tells a horror story of upgrading to Apple's new software.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Renowned Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig wrote on his blog. "I live on the Apple platform" so when new versions of iOS, the Mavericks operating system and iWork arrived, "Stupidly (really, inexcusably stupid), I upgraded immediately. Every Apple-related product I use has been crippled in important ways."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For instance, the iOS upgrade broke the WiFi on his iPhone. After spending hours on tech forums, he called Apple's tech support who said the only way to fix his phone, less than a year old, was to send him a new one.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He wrote:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because I was within the 1 year limited warranty, that replacement would be for free. Had it been beyond one year, and I didn’t have an AppleCare contract, it would not have been free. ... I would have been quite unhappy to have been told that an “upgrade” from Apple had broken my iPhone, but that I had to pay $199 to fix it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And he's not alone. When it comes to the iWork upgrade, there have been over 150 posts to an Apple forum called"List of deleted features in Keynote '13." Users say the new version of the software breaks presentations created with the old version.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pages users posted similar complaints on the tech support forums.</span></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1384785944527_2110" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The outcry from users, spurred in part by Lessig's blog post blasting Apple, prompted Apple to admit that the new iWork wasn't compatible with the old.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It promised to fix things over the next six months:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In rewriting these applications, some features from iWork ’09 were not available for the initial release. We plan to reintroduce some of these features in the next few releases and will continue to add brand new features on an ongoing basis.</span></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1384785944527_2120" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lessig is happy that Apple finally told users about its plans. But he made a valid point: Apple could have warned them about the compatibility issues before users upgraded.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; padding: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via: <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-users-complain-apples-software-163359788.html">Yahoo News</a></span></i></div>

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Adobe's colossal password leak becomes a playable crossword puzzle

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQ5QnrhJvq9V6D8bfe8I7fKoo6utL-UPhYVMkOlfYifVa-Pndd6F0GsQrHX2CLIaxyDtYLGohPsNwtGGr0jUh-iMJiAPwQlgyPw-LNMix9PfXbqDtMh1I39GTKw31b7fJd2t2hGJNujTM/s1600/adobe.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQ5QnrhJvq9V6D8bfe8I7fKoo6utL-UPhYVMkOlfYifVa-Pndd6F0GsQrHX2CLIaxyDtYLGohPsNwtGGr0jUh-iMJiAPwQlgyPw-LNMix9PfXbqDtMh1I39GTKw31b7fJd2t2hGJNujTM/s320/adobe.PNG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph0" style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adobe's been embarrassed over the past few weeks after it was revealed that some 150 million customer records were leaked online — and that Adobe had been using some questionable methods to protect that information in the first place. In a clever spin, some of that information has been turned into a playable crossword puzzle that helps remind people just how insecure common password choices can be.</span></div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph1" style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ben Falconer put together the project, <a href="http://zed0.co.uk/crossword/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">called simply Adobe Crossword</a>, after being <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/1286/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">inspired by the web comic XKCD</a>. The collection of 10 crossword puzzles use the most common 1,000 passwords found in the leak as its answers, with up to 50 user-supplied clues serving as the questions. There's a heavy dose of the obvious — "adobereader," "password1," and even "0123456789" all make appearances — though there's also a mixture of car and pop culture references.</span></div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph2" style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adobe came under fire because although the passwords themselves had been encrypted the user emails and password hints had been stored as text. Falconer writes that he can't be absolutely certain that the answers in his puzzles are correct, but given the hints and the general tendency for people to be less than careful when it comes to picking passwords his choices appear to be quite clearly correct. In either case, the crossword serves as a gamified reminder of the importance of picking unique — and secure — passwords for every online account you use.</span></div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph2" style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/16/5111750/adobes-colossal-security-leak-becomes-a-playable-crossword-puzzle" target="_blank">The Verge</a></span></i></div>

Adobe's colossal password leak becomes a playable crossword puzzle

Adobe's been embarrassed over the past few weeks after it was revealed that some 150 million customer records were leaked online — and t...

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