http://tipadept.com/blog The tip you need to know Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:11:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Facebook duo is no more. One of Facebook's two cofounders is leaving the popular social-networking site. Dustin Moskovitz is leaving and forming a new duo by taking engineer Justin Rosenstein with him. Together, the two will launch another company, Rosenstein said on his Facebook page. Rosenstein, who was recruited from Google ... http://tipadept.com/blog/facebook-cofounder-leaving-to-start-new-company/ New laptops from Apple, maker of such advanced products as the iPhone, the iPod and the Mac, could be made from bricks. An aluminum brick, that is. According to reports on the Web, the computer and consumer-products innovator is about to unveil a new kind of manufacturing that carves a solid-aluminum ... http://tipadept.com/blog/apples-brick-is-an-innovative-manufacturing-process/ The rise in fuel costs has far-reaching implications, even in the contact center industry. While this phenomenon has been attributed to the rise in home-based agents, it is also causing a rise in contact center interactions as a result of an increase in Internet use among rural residents. di According to ... http://tipadept.com/blog/fuel-costs-drive-increased-contact-center-interactions/ Apple's filing to dismiss with prejudice Psystar's countersuit revealed the tenants of Apples' strategy to win. The basis of Apple's argument is that Mac OS X and Macs do not, in themselves, create a legally plausible market, antitrust does not apply, and Apple has no obligation to share its sources ... http://tipadept.com/blog/apples-case-against-psystar-comes-into-focus/ It took computer safety expert Linda Criddle only nine minutes to snag the phone number of a teenage girl in Nebraska who had posted just a little information about herself on a social networking Web site. Criddle is a former Microsoft employee who specialized in online safety and is the author ... http://tipadept.com/blog/cyber-expert-details-internet-safety-dangers/ Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, said Thursday that it had added EMI and smaller record labels to its "free" music package to challenge Apple's dominance in the digital music market. Nokia said Carphone Warehouse, the exclusive retailer in Britain for the first mobile phone to include the "Comes with ... http://tipadept.com/blog/nokia-bolsters-music-service-to-challenge-apple/ Google hopes to do for the power grid what it did for the Web. Having conquered the market for Web search by first simplifying how it is done and then making sales of related advertising more efficient, Google is now funding green technology and using its brand power to lobby for ... http://tipadept.com/blog/google-aims-to-reform-energy-grid/ Microsoft said Thursday that it would set up research centers in France, Germany and Britain to improve its Internet search technology, describing the move as a vote of confidence in the European economy and in the company's ability to close the gap with Google. Steven Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, said ... http://tipadept.com/blog/microsoft-announces-european-expansion/ Ever since the credit crunch first gripped the financial world, Silicon Valley has watched from the sidelines, secure in the faith that it was insulated from the coming storm. With the stock market in turmoil, a U.S. bailout up in the air and recession seemingly inevitable, that faith is now ... http://tipadept.com/blog/a-fog-of-anxiety-invades-sunny-thinking-in-silicon-valley/ Skype is answering concerns about its joint venture with TOM Online in China. A report released Thursday by Canadian human-rights activists revealed a massive surveillance system that monitors Skype messages containing words China's government deems offensive. Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, released the report, Breaching Trust: ... http://tipadept.com/blog/skype-investigates-china-surveillance-of-messages/