Database of forums.winamp.com has been hacked into exposing account information. Winamp is one of the most popular media players for Windows and is owned by Aol.

JC Penney landed #1 spot on Google for a variety of clothing and household products during the last few months. This was achieved through a massive link-scheme that clearly violated Google’s guidelines. JC Penney, however, completely denies any knowledge of it.

Amazon now allows users to lend certain Kindle books to other people. Books can be loaned for a period of 14 days and the original user will not be able to read the book during this time.

XWave head gear, coupled with the free iPhone app, displays your brain activity through graphics and even let you control them.

SocialVents is a great visual search engine focused around events. Instead of a cluttered text list, results are displayed on Google Maps.

Times Square has just released its official New Year’s Eve app for iPhone and Android. Now you can watch the most happening new year celebration right from your smart phone.

Spacelog is a great collection of up close information about historical space missions. You can view photos, read about the astronauts and read the actual transcripts.

BestBuy, the electronics giant has removed the 15% restocking fees it used to charge on return of electronic items.

Details about the oldest living Facebook user and some other strange Facebook facts that you probably didn’t know.

Foursquare, the popular location based social network, now lets you add photos and comments to your checkins.

Tixik lets you create a map in less than a minute. The look of the map can be customized and embedded on any website or blog.

Tumblr may be less popular than WordPress but it generates twice as many page views and has been raising some serious VC funding lately.

Betali.st keeps you ahead of the game by displaying information about yet-to-launch startups and how to secure beta invites.

YouTube is allowing selected users to upload videos even longer than 15 minutes.

In defense of WikiLeaks, 4chan users have attacked websites of various organizations including PayPal, MasterCard and PostFinance.