Sony has flipped the switch to bring its Playstation Network back on line, after a lengthy, three-week outage. Sony Corporation Executive Deputy President Kazuo Hirai said that services would be brought back online in phases, and that first phase was underway.Hirai said that this would include sign-in for the Playstation...
The hack that has plagued the Playstation Network for the last week is much worse than simply taking down the platform. Sony reports on its Playstation Network blog that personal data of its 70 million users has been exposed by the hacker, including the possibility of credit card numbers.According to...
Sony Computer Entertainment America has just announced that it has reached a settlement with George Hotz, putting an end to the legal battle over Hotz - better known as Geohot - and his jailbreaking of Sony's Playstation 3.Details of the settlement were not released, but according to Sony, the two...
George Hotz, the hacker better known as "Geohot," started a blog over the weekend - aptly titled "Geohot Got Sued" - an effort in part to raise cash for his legal battle with Sony."This is war," he says in the first post, arguing that Sony has declared war on hackers....
Sony joins a number of music streaming services today with its launch of "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity." The service has been available in parts of Europe since last year, and arrives in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand today.Membership will start at $3.99 a month, with a $9.99 per...
Sony joins a number of music streaming services today with its launch of "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity." The service has been available in parts of Europe since last year, and arrives in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand today.Membership will start at $3.99 a month, with a $9.99 per...
Sony's fictional spokesperson Kevin Butler inadvertently retweeted the jailbreak code to the Sony Playstation 3 yesterday."Lemme guess, you sank my battleship?" read the tweet from @TheKevinButler, who then retweeted the code that'd been directed to the account by @exiva.That account, Travis La Marr's according to his Twitter profile, gave the...
Sony's fictional spokesperson Kevin Butler inadvertently retweeted the jailbreak code to the Sony Playstation 3 yesterday."Lemme guess, you sank my battleship?" read the tweet from @TheKevinButler, who then retweeted the code that'd been directed to the account by @exiva.That account, Travis La Marr's according to his Twitter profile, gave the...
At a Tokyo press conference yesterday, Sony announced a new program that will bring Sony PlayStation games to Google Android devices, both phones and tablets. The cross-platform software framework that makes this possible is being called the "PlayStation Suite," an initiative to deliver the casual games of the PSP to...
Last week, the word on the street was that everyone's favorite European music service, Spotify, was finally nearing a deal with major music labels in the U.S. and would soon enough be on its way across the pond. Today, Media Memo's Peter Kafka reports that the company "has finally signed...
Mark this day on your calendar: a major movie studio (Sony) has begun experimenting with some cool new technologies that make purchasing movies on iTunes more appealing to potential customers, instead of simply stomping their feet, threatening downloaders with lawsuits and being generally boring.According to a report by Andrew Wallenstein...
It has been said that geeks are cool. I disagree. Cool is for chumps. Geeks, not to mention weirdies, grotesques, exiles and stone cold superfreaks, are better than cool and have their own pantheon that transcends cool. Depending on your age and predilection, the Stooges stand atop the altar of...
Remember Web TV? The set-top box and keyboard that connected to your television to the World Wide Web? It's hard to not flash back to that odd venture (still kicking, mind you) after spying the new Sony remote for Google TV, which was recently spotted on ABC Nightline's Google TV...
We posted yesterday about the price war that's currently raging between Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Sony, makers of some of the top-selling e-readers in the U.S. Today a public relations representative sent us a statement on behalf of Sony that suggests the company may be pulling out of the...
2011 will be the year the floppy disc goes extinct. Sony, which sold 47 million of the 3.5-inch discs a year at its height, is phasing them out in Japan, one of the last markets. According to the Examiner, sales fell to only 8.5 million in 2009. Sony's sales of...
Sony just announced that it is expanding its selection of newspapers and magazines in its e-book store. Starting today, users of Sony's e-readers will be able to subscribe to 20 new newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury News, PC Magazine and Foreign Affairs....
Copia, a new e-book platform, plans to take on the big players in the market by launching its own e-book store and a set of touchscreen e-readers. Copia also wants to combine numerous social networking features with its e-book platform and plans to sell its services to original equipment manufacturers...
Startup e-book publishing house Smashwords has sussed out a distribution agreement with Sony Electronics that will allow for user creation of publishing accounts and expedited publishing and distribution of books for the Sony Readers through their eBook Store.Effective immediately, the Sony Publisher Portal is re-launched and open for business. Aspiring...
Sony today announced that it will sell a wireless eReader device for $399 by Christmas. The Reader Daily Edition will be powered by AT&T's 3G network. That in itself is interesting news, especially given that Barnes & Noble announced a similar device in partnership with Irex yesterday. What's gotten somewhat...
In a move that took most industry pundits by surprise, Sony today announced that it will adopt the open ePub standard as the default format for books in its eBook store by the end of the year. EPub is an XML-based standard for publishing eBooks that has been adopted by...
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