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Hacker Found Guilty of 2010’s Massive AT&T iPad Breach

Way back in 2010, a security breach exposed the emails of 114,000 iPad owners. Eventually, the hackers behind it were arrested—and now one of them, Andrew Auernheimer, has been found guilty. http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-ipad-owners-exposed First, though, we need to refresh some memories. Auernheimer and a co-conspirator—both from Goatse Security—found a serious security flaw in AT&T’s iPad subscriber…

Is AT&T Letting You Use FaceTime Over Cellular?

AT&T recently allowed FaceTime over cellular for iPhone users on tiered data plans but reports are coming through that AT&T iPhone users on unlimited data plans are also getting unchained from FaceTime’s Wi-Fi only shackles. Is this happening to you too? https://gizmodo.com/at-t-reverses-you-can-use-iphone-5-facetime-without-wi-5958936 Previously, when you switch on the toggle for “Use Cellular Data” under Settings>FaceTime…

Congrats Charleston, Portland, South Detroit, and 11 other cities! AT&T flipped its LTE switch for you this week. [AT&T]

AT&T Will Give You a $100 Discount on an iPad If You Sign a Two-Year Contract

If you want to save a chunk of money now while signing your soul away for two years, AT&T will give customers a $100 discount on all tablets if you sign a two-year data contract with them. If you’re going to be buying a data contract for your iPad anyway, it’s a pretty good deal.…

AT&T Reverses: You Can Use iPhone 5 FaceTime Without Wi-Fi (Updated)

After months of complaining, AT&T will now doing the right thing, unchaining customers with regular tiered data plans to use FaceTime on their LTE phones and iPads with nothing more than a cell signal. It’s good, but definitely not enough. AT&T says the change will take place within the next “8 to 10 weeks,” and…

Overcharged Pay-As-You-Go Data Users To Be Refunded by AT&T

The FCC has announced that AT&T has agreed to refund customers who were unfairly pushed from their original pay-as-you-go wireless plans into monthly data contracts. AT&T began mandating monthly data plans back in 2009, but promised customers already buying wireless data through them on a pay-as-you-go basis that they would be “grandfathered” into the new…

LG Optimus G Review: A Speedster That Gets in Its Own Way

Say this for the Optimus G: it doesn’t skimp. LG went for broke to shake off its mid-range reputation, cramming its latest flagship Android phone full of goodies. But specs don’t always equal performance. What Is It? LG’s best attempt at a high-end phone. It runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with LG’s custom UI…

Rumor: Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Rolling Out Next Month

For over a year now, there have been rumors floating around about major ISPs’ plans to institute a “six-strikes” plan to curb piracy. According to some leaked AT&T training documents drudged up by TorrentFreak, it’s finally rolling out for real on November 28th. https://gizmodo.com/the-isps-are-about-to-take-a-harder-stance-against-pira-5814819 The six-strikes plan, a set of private agreements between major ISPs…

Warning for the chronically indecisive: AT&T cut its return window for phones from 30 days down to 14. [TalkAndroid]

HTC One X+ Hands-On: Really Good Is Getting Better

We really liked the HTC One X, and from our brief encounter with the One X+ tonight, we’re going to like it even more. On the outside, it looks essentially the same—same gorgeous screen, same solid build—but its insides are nicely ramped up. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-x-review-the-best-android-phone-right-now-upd-5907529 This will be the first phone hitting the States with Nvidia’s…

LG Optimus G Hands-On: Like Megan Fox Wrapped In Burlap

LG wanted to build a super-phone. Good idea. So LG crammed it with the nastiest specs we’ve seen on a mobile device. We were excited. We got to play with it today… and they covered that beauty in one of the ugliest skins we’ve seen. C’mon, guys! The tale of the tape: It’s an Android…

Samsung’s Nutty Android Galaxy Camera Is Coming to AT&T’s 4G Network Soon

We’ve been excited about the Samsung Galaxy Camera since it was announced back in August. We saw the weird/brilliant mashup of a Jelly Bean-running Galaxy S III with a point-and-shoot camera in action last month, and it looked like a winning combination. Well, Samsung has just answered a few of the remaining question marks: the…

5 Reasons Why Nokia’s Lumia 920 AT&T Exclusive Is Dumb

It has a breakthrough camera, wireless charging and a gorgeous screen. And it’s headed to AT&T–and only AT&T. When I heard the news that the Lumia 920, Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone 8 device, was going to be exclusive to one carrier, I felt compelled to tweet the following. “I don’t think that’s good for Windows…

AT&T is apparently planning to unveil Nokia’s WinPho8-running Lumia 920 tomorrow. [Bloomberg]

LG’s Optimus G Is an Android Spec Monster That’s Coming to AT&T [AT&T]

The AT&T Custom Cable Ship That Made Modern Telecommunications Possible

Cable ships that criss-cross the world’s oceans, laying lines to facilitate communications, have existed since the 1850s. But in 1961 AT&T launched what was then considered the world’s most modern cable layer, the C.S. Long Lines, which could hold almost 2,500 miles of cable at a time. During its first two decades of operation starting…

Got an AT&T iPhone 5 off-contract and wanna use it on another carrier? Just restore it in iTunes: job done! [TechCrunch]

AT&T Wants to Automatically Translate Your Texts From English to Spanish

AT&T is working on a service that will automatically translate text messages from Spanish to English and vice versa, no additional software required. So next time you want to shoot a text to a friend who doesn’t speak English all that well, you don’t have to worry about anything getting lost in the language barrier.…

AT&T’s Cutting-Edge Computer Graphics Workstation Looked Outdated Even in 1982

Before the internet as we know it came to be, there were other services that delivered news and information to homes via computers and TVs. Like AT&T’s failed Viewtron system, which required content creators to shell out $34,000 for this Frame Creation Terminal that produced crude computer graphics even by Mario Paint standards. https://gizmodo.com/the-viewtron-was-at-ts-1983-solution-for-information-ov-5907450 For…

Why Was This Shady AT&T Manager Letting People Cut the iPhone Line?

The Bronx: home of J. Lo, sulfur fumes, and crooked iPhone sales? It seemed that way while waiting at the Bay Plaza shopping mall this morning, where one retail chief didn’t seem to play by the rules. The line was modest, but it didn’t matter when a dark-tinted SUV rolled up as customers were slowly…