Jeremy Hammond, a hacker with ties to both Lulzsec and Anonymous, pled guilty in a New York courtroom yesterday. Hammond is accused of being a part of an attack on Strategic Forecasting, Inc, which resulted in the personal info of over 800,000 of the company’s clients being stolen. The attack included the publishing of 60,000 credit more »

AT&T has just unveiled two new 4G LTE devices, the AT&T USBConnect Momentum 4G and AT&T Mobile Hotspot Elevate 4G. Available this summer, the USBConnect Momentum 4G is a plug-and-play USB stick device, while the Mobile Hostspot Elevate 4G features a 1.77-inch display and can be used to connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices. more »

With all the buzz surrounding Google+ these days, it’s good to take a step back and assess how this new social network will affect our daily online habits. Throwing a new social platform into the mix that has a backing the likes of Gmail, Gchat, YouTube and the most used search engine around will surely more »

If you liked iMovie on the iPhone, you’ll love if on the iPad. The only problem: how to get your photos and video from the iPhone to the iPad. Why Apple didn’t homebrew a solution into the iPad is beyond us but thankfully, the developers behind the Transfer app did. Apple expects you to transfer more »

Joining iPhone and Android versions, Splashtop for webOS was just announced and it brings the same one-click access to your desktop machine available on the other mobile OS. Working with Windows and Mac, Spashtop looks more like a precursor for the HP TouchPad tablet rather than a smartphone focused product. Splashtop can pass through games, more »

The folks at Messenger Plus, one of the most popular add-ons for Windows Live Messenger has announced that their userbase has now exceed the 60 million mark. Conciding with this feat is the release of the latest version of their add-on, bringing several new features which are social in nature. Messenger Plus has been download more »

At the Verizon Wireless press conference today at CES 2011, the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot was announced. It’s interesting to see Samsung deviate from its usual line of products, but I’m sure this one will be well received. The device allows up to five Wi-Fi connected devices to either Verizon’s 3G or 4G network. more »

Over at Business Insider, Matt Rosoff wrote an interesting piece reminding us there is more to laptops than just the included hardware. Things like cameras, hard drives, printers, mice; all those things we plug into our laptops make our experience complete. Google seems to have come up short on supporting these. Toward the end of more »

If you search on eBay right now for a BlackBerry PlayBook, the new tablet that is said to be coming for sale in early 2011, you’ll find lots of options. Pricing ranges from a whopping $25,000 down to a measly $300. These prices are not for the tablet itself, oh no, it is for something more »

The FCC granted Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) a license to use WiMAX (also claimed to be 4G) aiming to help innovation from the school. On the first day WiMAX was turned on in the city, the school beamed data captured by roving cars to locate parking spots, filled and unfilled. The researchers more »