Friday and Saturday have uncovered some pretty interesting things about the new contenders entering the tablet market. Both Sony and Motorola are apparently rushing towards new releases, and while both are expected to appear on the market by fall, information on each is scattered. Reports about Sony’s upcoming tablet(s) are quite literally all over the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Sony Prepares for Tablet Launch As Verizon Leaks a Peek at the Motorola Xoom 4G
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Hacking Group LulzSec’s Activity Over The Weekend
LulzSec is certainly going to make a name for themselves at the rate they are going. The hacker group claims responsibility for the recent major attacks against Sony and PBS’s websites as we have written about, compromising well over an incredible number of user’s security information and exposing the poor security of both companies. Despite [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Sony Hacked Again
It is no secret to anyone that between the dates of April 17th and 19th, still as yet unnamed hackers broke into Sony’s database and stole the personal data of more than 100 million users of Sony’s PS3 Network, Qriocity entertainment service and the online gaming network, Sony Online. Sony claims to be using industry [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Sony’s back up! Sort of…
Sony’s PSN services are finally being restored. The three week long hiatus is finally over. They have instituted new rules for security’s sake. But is it enough? Why is Japan still out of the loop? How much of a black eye will Sony have due to this outage? On April 20, Sony’s PSN was hacked [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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LastPass Passes, Sony Fails
The cloud has been rather rainy, lately. Sony has had a rough month, to say the least. They’ve been hacked, and info has been stolen. At the time of writing PSN has been down for close to three weeks, and Sony Online Entertainment has been down for a week. During this time, Sony hasn’t shown [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Sony PSN Hack, What You Need To Know Right Now
Maybe you have heard that Sony has taken their Playstation Network (PSN) offline on April 20. It first was not clear why it was taken down, with many suspecting a DDOS attack to be the reason. Back then, Sony let everyone know that the services were taken offline because of external intrusion. No one knew [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Has Tech-Companies Intellectual Property Gone Too Far?
Sony have announced that they’re suing the hackers who uncovered the security codes for the PlayStation 3, that the console uses to determine that software is genuine. This means that anybody who has access to this code can use it in non-approved (and even pirated), software to get that to run happily on the console. Microsoft are [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google’s World Conquest Continues, Google TV Demoed
Google, Google, Google. Seems everywhere you turn these days you hear the company name, from their core business Internet search to web browsers, operating systems, web applications, smart phones and now, TV. The guys over at Stuff We Like have posted a video demonstration of Google TV that was recorded at Comic Con 2010. It [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Free Legal Music Downloads: In China
Downloading music is illegal, right? That’s what the Music Industry is telling us all the time. They sue people who download music and do everything in their might to keep up the image that music downloading is a major crime.This is however apparently not true in China where Google struck a deal with major players [...]
