Use Pirate Bay to find or swap files? If so, about 4 million of you have just had your accounts hacked and user names, e-mail and Internet addresses compiled by a 23-year-old Argentinian (and two pals) exploiting the site's SQL vulnerabilities. The lead hacker, identified as CH Russo, said he didn't hack for profit or malice, but awareness, which is somewhat suspect. Russo said no accounts, including those of several The Pirate Bay site administrators and moderators, were changed or modified during the hack.

Just in time for the July 4th holiday weekend Starbucks is now offering free, unlimited Wi-Fi access at nearly 7,000 company-operated locations across the United States. The policy change came into effect Thursday a little over two years after Starbucks began offering two hours of free Wi-Fi to Starbucks card holders. Now, however, the time limits are gone, and you can enjoy unlimited free Wi-Fi at your local Starbucks any time you like for as long as you like.

The FCC has a fairly straightforward mission. According to the FCC Web site "The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable." Today the FCC is struggling to adapt to the rapidly-changing communications environment, and it is looking for public input to determine the best way to accomplish that.

Cisco plays a dominant role in the network infrastructure that drives the backbone of technology. If the quarterly results of Cisco are any indication, the tech industry at least is rebounding nicely from the recent global economic meltdown.

Wounded from a court decision that stopped the government from regulating Internet service providers, the Federal Communications Commission has announced a new way to gain some control over the broadband industry. The proposal would let the FCC treat Internet transmissions like telephone communications, entailing more oversight, but would prevent government control over Web services, applications and e-commerce sites. Any move by the FCC is bound to draw cheers and jeers, but here are some of the pros and cons from both sides:

Comcast may now be wondering whether suing the FCC to fight net neutrality was such a good idea, for while it won the lawsuit, it now stands to lose the battle in a very big way.

Microsoft announced the public beta of Windows Intune, a cloud-based Windows management and security platform aimed primarily at small and medium businesses. The beta is open to the first 1,000 organizations from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico that sign up.

Boston Financial Investment Management is a national leader in the low-income housing tax credit industry, with a proven track record in syndication services as well as asset and portfolio management. To keep pace with its customers' demands, the company needed a secure way to make its homegrown applications accessible to its 150 employees in the field and in the office.

T-Mobile is taking advantage of the CTIA show to roll out a number of new wireless devices, and announce its ambitious plans to expand its 3.5G HSPA+ network. T-Mobile is late to the party--as its competitors have all moved on to working on 4G implementation--but HSPA+ is a bridge technology that will allow T-Mobile's wireless broadband network to remain competitive, or even surpass the competition for a short while.

More than 100 car owners in and around Austin, Texas recently discovered that their cars wouldn't start. Or that their horns wouldn't stop honking -- all night long. Or that their vehicle leases were suddenly (and luckily, temporarily) transferred to deceased rapper Tupac Shakur.