http://tipadept.com/blog The tip you need to know Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:34:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First, Facebook dethroned Google as the most trafficked web site in the United States, and now the social networking community has proven to have an extremely loyal following among news readers, potentially threatening the dominant position held by Google News. So says a recent Hitwise survey. "A few weeks ago when ... http://tipadept.com/blog/facebook-news-readers-more-loyal-than-googlers/ In the wake of the browser choice screen in Europe, Opera Software is reporting a dramatic uptick in browser downloads. The company said more than half the European downloads of Opera 10.50 have come directly from Microsoft's choice screen since early March. Microsoft used to configure Internet Explorer as the default ... http://tipadept.com/blog/browser-choice-boosts-downloads-of-opera-105/ Cybercriminals have been busy this week running scams that target Facebook users, college basketball fans, and celebrity gossip watchers. Security experts are warning about recent attacks with nasty payloads. One widespread attack was a common ploy security researchers call the Facebook Password Reset Scam. The cybercriminals send an e-mail addressed to ... http://tipadept.com/blog/basketball-facebook-and-gossip-are-malware-targets/ Apple is tapping into the social arena with plans to launch a social-networking application. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent & Trade Office describing a social-network application dubbed iGroups. The application for patent, made available on Thursday, reveals that Apple is working on an ... http://tipadept.com/blog/apple-files-patent-for-mobile-social-networking/ Microsoft released a software update Thursday that eliminates some of the hardware requirements for running Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 PCs. The goal is to make it far easier for small and midsize businesses to migrate to Windows 7 while retaining access to critical legacy applications that are unable ... http://tipadept.com/blog/microsoft-eases-windows-xp-mode-requirements/ Yahoo is buying a fantasy sports company co-founded by an MIT graduate whose card-counting skills helped him win millions of dollars in blackjack and spawned a film and a best-selling book. Citizen Sports offers fantasy leagues for sports such as football, soccer and basketball that fans can manage online at social-networking ... http://tipadept.com/blog/yahoo-buying-fantasy-sports-company-citizen-sports-2/ Yahoo is buying a fantasy sports company co-founded by an MIT graduate whose card-counting skills helped him win millions of dollars in blackjack and spawned a film and a best-selling book. Citizen Sports offers fantasy leagues for sports such as football, soccer and basketball that fans can manage online at social-networking ... http://tipadept.com/blog/yahoo-buying-fantasy-sports-company-citizen-sports/ With more than half its latest devices left on store shelves at the end of the third quarter, things may be getting out of hand for Palm as the manufacturer struggles to hold market share in the rapidly evolving telecom market. The company's projected fourth-quarter earnings will be about half the ... http://tipadept.com/blog/leftover-phones-show-palms-market-share-is-falling/ With Apple's iPad scheduled to go on sale on April 3, a new report indicates there may be strong pre-order demand. This could mean the iPad is on the verge of being a breakthrough product for tablet computers. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that, according to unnamed sources, pre-orders ... http://tipadept.com/blog/ipad-pre-orders-reported-in-hundreds-of-thousands/ A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday. Austin police arrested Omar Ramos-Lopez, 20, on Wednesday, charging him with felony breach of computer security. Ramos-Lopez used ... http://tipadept.com/blog/hacker-wreaks-wireless-havoc-on-vehicles-2/