Blizzard brings ‘Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft’ to iPad, available in Canada now

Blizzard Entertainment brings its digital card trading game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft to the iPad and has launched it first in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand for testing purposes. It is a free-to-play collectible card game that lets users have one-on-one fights with the computer or with other Battle.net users. The game is set in Warcraft universe. Global release is planned soon after the testing period and an iPhone version will reportedly be available later in the year.

Source: MacRumors

Twitter adds emoji support for Web

Keen to see the emojis your friends have been posting when you’re on your Web browser? Twitter has just added support for emojis on its desktop and web version. According to Mashable, the image quality is lesser on the web than what you see on your mobile. But they are not sure if it supports Tweetdeck since it works for some of their employees and not for others.

Google updates Play Newsstand to add new navigation tabs, ‘My Library’ section

Google Play Newsstand users will notice a few new things with the latest update. The “Read Now” section features an easier way to access content sections—such as news, highlights, sports, etc. You can tap on each or swipe through them. They even come with their own colors to make sure you’ve noticed that you’ve switched sections.

The “My News” and “My Magazines” have been combined into “My Library” section.  The manual setting for pre-downloading “Read Now” content has been taken out though. Perhaps it now just downloads everything for you by default. But we have to check that first.

Source: Android Central

Yahoo! started encrypting data center traffic, plans to do the same with Yahoo! Messenger

Following the NSA controversy in the US, Yahoo! seems to be striking back with the announcement of its plans to encrypt traffic from its data centers. Yahoo! claims they have begun encrypting this week and they also intend to encrypt services like Yahoo! Messenger.

Yahoo!’s Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos wrote in a blog post, “Hundreds of Yahoos have been working around the clock over the last several months to provide a more secure experience for our users and we want to do even more moving forward. Our goal is to encrypt our entire platform for all users at all time, by default.”