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Yahoo has confirmed that Katie Couric will join Yahoo News early in the new year, with the ABC News correspondent taking the role as Global Anchor though also continuing to present her existing talk show Katie. Couric, who has previously worked at NBC News and CBS News, is no stranger to Yahoo, with her existing […]

Yahoo’s been working hard to include support for Apple services in its Screen iOS app, now it’s gone one better and launched its video-discovery app on Apple TV. With an emphasis on comedy, Yahoo Screen has been designed to collate the best of web video, including clips from Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, and The Daily Show, as well as live news, events and music. You’ll also be able to browse trending videos and watch Yahoo Originals programming, which are delivered direct to your Apple TV without the need to AirPlay them across. AllThingsD reports that PBS has also quietly pushed a new app, letting users get their Nova, Frontline or Antiques Roadshow fix (older episodes of Downton Abbey will be available shortly after PBS begins re-airing seasons early next year). Today’s update may only available to US users but Apple isn’t being shy about broadening the number of Apple TV apps available across the globe.

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Over the past few months the world has gained considerable insight into the clandestine data collection operations of the National Security Agency, courtesy of former CIA analyst Edward Snowden. A number of major companies were named in those leaked top secret documents, companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and more. A cache of documents recently leaked by Snowden alleged that the NSA is capable of tapping into Google and Yahoo’s data centers without the companies knowing about it. Today, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reiterated what she has said multiple times in the past, that “Yahoo has never given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency. Ever.”

Mayer also announced that Yahoo will encrypt all data flowing between its data centers by the end of Q1, 2014 and it will also offer users the option to encrypt data from to and from Yahoo servers. The company will also work with its international mail partners to make sure that Yahoo co-branded email accounts are https-enabled. The move comes after Yahoo’s recent announcement of adding 2048-bit SSL encryption across its email network by January 8, 2014. It can’t be said for sure though if these steps will make your data NSA proof, the agency is rumored to have the capability to passively decrypt data that’s SSL-protected.

Yahoo To Encrypt All Data Flowing Between Its Data Centers By Q1, 2014 original content from Ubergizmo.

This article was written on March 20, 2007 by CyberNet.

Yesterday, Yahoo expanded their oneSearch feature and made it available for just about any phone in the US on Yahoo! Mobile Web Service.  oneSearch will give you quick access to important answers while you’re on the go. 

oneSearch provides you with a convenient way to perform your searches. It uses context like your zip code for location to provide you with relevant search results. The results you receive after performing a search are varied depending on what you’re searching for.

For example, if you’re searching for a camera, it will provide you results divided into categories like products, product categories, and nearby camera stores.  Another example is if you’re searching for pizza. oneSearch will pull up a list of options with phone numbers and ratings from users for the different pizza places around, and you’ll also see business categories pertaining to it, Flickr photos of pizza, and several related web sites.

If you were to select one of the options that it gave you, you’d get another layer of information with the “extended details” option(pictured to the left).  Then you’d see more options like getting directions, or actually reading the reviews for the restaurant from Yahoo users who’ve rated or reviewed it on Yahoo Local.

You’ll probably notice that Yahoo is monetizing oneSearch by using advertisements, and sponsored links. Overall, the search results will give more more than just a bunch of links to Yahoo pages, and the interface is much improved, so the discrete adds will probably be worth it.

If you’re wanting to get oneSearch on your mobile phone (if you’re in the US), you can click here , and in the upper right corner you’ll be able to enter in your phone number to receive a text message with a link to get you started with oneSearch on the mobile web.

Yahoo is definitely taking the competition with Google seriously because they’ve made the extra effort to create a PDF that compares the two. If I had to choose between using Yahoo’s oneSearch on my mobile phone over Google’s search, at this point I’d pick Yahoo. They’ve done a great job of integrating their services to provide a concise helpful mobile search.

Source: Read/Write Web [via Yodel Anecdotal]

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