Albert Gonzalez, who hacked TJX, is talking about other hacks he’s been involved in. The story behind the 7-Eleven hack in early 2008 reads like a movie script.

Ghostbusters The Video Game was one of the most eagerly anticipated games of Summer 2009, being released on every major gaming platform except the PSP. Then, with absolutely no fanfare whatsoever, Ghostbusters The Video game for PSP was released on November 3, 2009. Is worth the effort, or is too little too late? Read Editor-at-Large James Booth’s opinion in this review of the mobile Ghostbusters.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation is offering this documentary video of the train journey linking Bergen with the capital city of Oslo, Norway for free. The download is a modest 22GB, at least when you consider it runs for 7.5 hours.

O’Reilly has opened early registration for The O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, March 30-April 1, 2010 in San Jose, California and a preliminary lineup of featured speakers has been posted. Topics to be discussed include: Machine Learning; GeoStack and GeoBrowsers; Augmented Reality; and more.

Motorola has developed an Android tablet, the XT701. This article includes some pictures of the phone-sized device along with specifications.

According to the French, Google’s digital display of snippets from books violates copyright law. This represents yet another legal hurdle in Google’s plan to create a digital library containing all the world’s books.

This short article includes a link to Microsoft’s patent filing which proposes to tie the appearance of your on-line avatar to your physical health and appearance. This doesn’t seem much stranger than the Japanese man who “married” a character in a game.

According to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), recent changes made by Facebook to privacy settings violate U.S. federal consumer protection laws. The group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate.

MobiForms 5.0 now offers support for Google Android smartphones making it possible for novice or experienced programmers alike to create mobile business applications for Android Google smartphones.

An OpenID account can free you from trying to remember dozens of different IDs and passwords for different sites. So why isn’t it more commonly used?