Do you like to go to sporting events and shows? Most people like to get out to the ballpark or a concert every once in a while, but often rising ticket prices, service fees, and extra hassle keep people from buying tickets.

Every day you'll receive a handful of deals for shows and events on that day.

ScoreBig Daily (Free) is an app for iPhone that works with the ScoreBig.com Web site to get you good seats for events for much less than the original ticket price. As of today's launch of the app, ScoreBig only works with events in L.A. or San Francisco, but it will soon be available for most major cities. ScoreBig says that New York will be next.

The way ScoreBig Daily works is, you launch the app and based on your location data it sends you three great deals nearby on sporting events and concerts. It doesn't show you the nosebleed seats either; ScoreBig Daily always shoots for lower-level seats so you can actually enjoy the sporting event, concert, or theater performance. If you like a deal listed for that day, you simply touch the event, then use a slider to put in the price you want to pay. As you push the slider further left indicating a cheaper bid, ScoreBig lets you know that your bid is less likely to be approved, while sliding to the right gets you an i... [Read more]

Mozilla has announced that after more than two years of support, Firefox 3.6 will no longer receive updates as of April 24. The legacy version of the browser is notable for being the final version before the company embarked on a radically different production path in 2011 with Firefox 4.

Barring any last-minute security patches, last month's Firefox 3.6.28 will be the final update that the 3.6-branch receives. Organizations like businesses and universities are being encouraged by Mozilla to switch to the Firefox Extended Support Release, which will allow them to update annually. The current version of Firefox, which is based off of Firefox 4, updates every six weeks.

Mozilla also revealed that it will stop supporting Firefox on computers running Windows XP Service Pack 1 and older, including Windows 2000, as of the June release of Firefox 13. This means that if you're on Windows XP, you ought to upgrade to at least SP2 -- although, SP3 is the most current service pack.

Recently the Flashback malware attacks on OS X gained headlines, not because of the presence of the Trojan, which had been around for some months prior to the increase in attention, but rather because it gained the possibility of installation in a drive-by-download attack that did not require any interaction from the user in order to install.

This development was made possible because of a vulnerability in Java that allowed for a maliciously crafted applet to break the Java sandbox and write files to the disk. Apple has since patched this issue and it, along with other companies, have released Flashback Trojan removal tools to combat the malware; however, in its prime, the malware did reach more than 600,000 Mac users.

While this vulnerability has been linked in the media to Flashback, it appears the same vulnerability is being attempted by other criminal malware developers as well.

When exploits to vulnerabilities are found by criminals, many times they are packaged in underground software development kits that are then distributed, making malware development around these vulnerabilities far easier to do. According to computer security expert Brian Krebs, the CVE-2012-0507 vulnerability in Java that was used by Flashback was included in one of these kits (called Blackhole), and therefore has been available to criminal software developers for some time.... [Read more]

Microsoft is hiring staff "to help us bring Skype experience on to the Web," a move that could help people use the Internet-based video and audio chat service more broadly.

Skype's VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service today requires a native app to run on various operating systems. A browser-based version, though, could bring the service to OSes that aren't supported, such as Google's Chrome OS; make it easier for people to use Skype on a machine for which they don't have installation privileges; and potentially integrate with other Web-based services.

Microsoft revealed the project through at least four job ads. One of them reads:

Team Rendezvous at Skype is looking for passionate, team-oriented and self-motivated developers to help us bring Skype experience on to the Web. You will have a chance to integrate existing Skype solutions onto the Web with the support of the back-end services build from the ground up using latest Microsoft technol... [Read more]

StartMenu7 can revive the traditional Start menu in Windows 8.

For Windows 8 beta users still yearning for the good, old-fashioned Start menu in Windows 8, StartMenu7 is one utility that can bring it back.

Initially designed to replace and enhance the Start menu in Windows 7 and prior versions, StartMenu7 (aka StartMenuX) can pull a similar trick in Windows 8. Designed for a PC or touch-screen device, this utility is available as both a free version and a paid $19.99 pro version, so you can try out the freebie first.

After installation, the software displays an icon in the lower left corner of the desktop. Click on the icon, and a traditional Start menu pops up with access to your various programs, documents, folders, and other content. You can navigate through the various folders and subfolders to launch your full array of installed programs.

You'll find the familiar Run command, which is always handy. And a Search link brings you to the Metro screen's Search feature. A power control panel gives you access to a helpful collection of options, including Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, Hibernate, Log off, and even Undock if your laptop is connected to a docking station.

You can easily resize the menu to make it shorter or narrower and even position it anywhere on the screen so it's close... [Read more]

Microsoft's Windows Store gets its first Metro Twitter app.

Microsoft's new Windows Store for Metro apps is finally stocking its shelves with some interesting titles and updates.

The first social-networking app to directly support Twitter leads the list. Dubbed FlipToast, the app supports both Facebook and Twitter and lets you view the latest posts, update your status, and see notifications directly on the Metro Start screen.

Meanwhile, the Inrix Traffic app provides real-time traffic conditions and updates as you drive along. But as such, it's an app more suited for a mobile tablet than a PC. The Xbox 360 game Hydro Thunder Hurricane is also now available as a Metro app, giving you the ability to race against other rocket-powered speedboats on a watery race track.

And in the update department, the WordPress Metro app finally lets bloggers create actual blogs rather than just view existing ones, a feature that was surprisingly unavailable in the initial version.

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