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Sony: Hackers compromised 93,000 PSN, other online accounts
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Following a period of peace after weeks of cyberattacks launched against various Sony-run online networks, Sony has confirmed that hackers are once again targeting the company’s digital properties. The electronics giant said on Wednesday that it discovered a “large number” of sign-in attempts on its PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Entertainment Network between October 7th and the 10th. According to Sony, approximately 93,000 accounts were compromised when valid log-in details were verified during what appears to have been a brute force attack. The company says it has locked the affected accounts and that credit card data tied to the compromised accounts was not at ris...
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Sony reveals new PSN hack attempt
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Sony has revealed details on a new security issue, with hackers supposedly testing a 93,000-strong list of leaked usernames and passwords to see if they’ll grant access to the PlayStation Network and other services. “The overwhelming majority” of the attacks, Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer Philip Reitinger confirmed on the company’s PlayStation blog, have failed, leading the company to suspect that the inaccurate list has come from a third-party source rather than Sony’s own servers. As well as the PSN, the Sony Entertainment Network and Sony Online Entertainment networks were targeted.
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Sony A77 and A65 'delayed by flood'
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Sources at Sony suggest that the reason for the shipping delay of the A77 and A65 cameras is a flood emergency in Thailand, where the cameras are manufactured.
Tokyo-based Sony spokesman Yasuhiro Okada said that the company's digital camera and lens factory in Thailand hasn't suffered major damage from the floods, but the transport system is out, and most of the workers can't reach the factory.
SonyStore.com has removed the pre-order option for the cameras from its website, Sony UK says the cameras are temporary unavailable and Sony Germany and Sony France say that shipment will start in mid-November.
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Sony promises to 'supersede' mobile gaming with Playstation Vita
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Mobile gaming these days has become extremely popular when compared to dedicated gaming handhelds such as the Nintendo 3DS or the Playstation Portable mainly because everyone has a cell phone on them, so firing up a game on your device is as easy as tapping your screen. Sony believes there is still a market for dedicated gaming handhelds in a world that’s being consumed by gaming on mobile devices and has even gone as far as saying its Playstation Vita will supersede the mobile gaming market when it’s released.
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Sony Pictures close to deal for feature film rights to Steve Jobs biography
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Sony Pictures is working on a deal to acquire the rights to Steve Jobs’s biography for a feature film, BGR sister site Deadline reported on Friday. The highly anticipated authorized biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacsson is due for release on October 24th, and Sony Pictures is reportedly making a substantial offer for the motion picture rights. ”I’m hearing the deal is $1 million against $3 million and that Mark Gordon will be the producer,” Mike Fleming wrote on Deadline. Sony Pictures is thought to be a good fit for the project following its work on business book turned feature film Moneyball and the Oscar-nominated The Social Network. If the studio manages to work out a deal, this would...
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PlayStation Vita launch apps detailed
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PlayStation Vita launch apps detailed What comes in the box? : TechRadar The apps that will come installed on the PlayStation Vita for its UK launch have been detailed on the official PS blog.
Adam Grant, the European product manager, has described the launch apps and given a little detail about each.
The PlayStation Vita may not have a UK release date as yet, but that's not stemmed the interest in the handheld console.
Apps-a-loutely
As well as giving a first glimpse at the box you'll be getting your Vita in, the blog post detailed the series of apps the device will come pre-loaded with.
They are Welcome Park – an interactive introduction to the PS Vita Party – which allows in-game chat, .....
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PS Vita to have 3G download limits and system-specific memory cards
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Sony has confirmed in a recent interview with ASCII that it’s upcoming PS Vita portable gaming console would have 3G download limits and that its proprietary memory cards would be system-specific. Although not completely unexpected, it’s a bit surprising that the device will require a completely new memory card format that will not be compatible with any of Sony’s other products.
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Sony VAIO SE And SA Series Unveiled
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Sony has recently introduced the new Sony VAIO SE and SA series. Both laptops feature a 2.40Ghz Intel Core i5-2430M processor with TurboBoost, a 1GB AMD Radeon Hybrid Graphics 6630M, a 4GB DDR3 RAM (upgradeable up to 8GB), the Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) technology, a DVD burner, a pair of USB 2.0 ports, USB 3.0, an HDMI out, a SD card slot, a VGA output, and a standard audio jack. The Sony VAIO SE has a full HD 15.5-inch display, a 500GB of HDD and up to 5.45-hour of battery life, while the VAIO SA offers a smaller 13.3-inch (1600×900) display, a 640GB of HDD and up to 7.15-hour of battery life.
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Consumers Show Interest in Smart TVs
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Smart TVs have been a recent addition to the consumer market. They provide internet access to users without the need for an external computer or having only limited access to websites. Today, a study conducted by the Consumer Decision Process stated that 10% of the broadband households that they reviewed stated that they plan to purchase a new Smart TV before the end of 2011. This number has grown from the 6% of households who stated they would in the first half of the year. The households interviewed represent about 50% of the nearly one-fourth of U.S broadband households planning to purchase a flat-panel TV. “Advertising campaigns from manufacturers such as Sony, Samsung, and VIZIO have bo...
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Sony Reaches 10000 Milestone for 4K HD Digital Cinema Systems
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Sony has been a major leader in digital cinema systems since 2007. Today, the company announced that this month they will reach a new record and cross the 10000 unit mark for 4K HD projectors shipped. These particular projectors feature a 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution, which is currently the biggest resolution used by typical movie theaters. Sony’s digital cinema system is a combination of a projector, a server, and a media block. Sony is the only company that presently bundles all three components into one package. The systems are the also the first receive DCI certification. This certification allows the projectors some advantages over other projection systems, like an added Theater Manageme...
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Sony offering free upgrade to NEX-5N owners
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Sony has just released an update on their website which might be of interest to all NEX-5N users, who are annoyed with the *click* sounds the camera produces while recording.
Sony will be upgrading for free all NEX-5N owners that are still under a valid warranty in order to reduce the annoying sound. It wasn’t exactly specified what was producing the strange noise.
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PlayStation Network down again, restore coming soon
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The PlayStation Network has experienced another outage today that began early this morning and is still ongoing at the moment. This certainly brings back bad memories of the last time the PSN went down, which lasted for over a month and involved plenty of compromised data. Luckily, this time it seems Sony has got it more under control.
Sony posted to its US and European Twitter accounts acknowledging that they are aware of the issue and are working on getting the platform restored. This quick response and communication is a nice improvement over the last time the network went down. The EU Twitter account has also been a bit more proactive in posting updates throughout the morning and has mos...
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PS Vita is region-unlocked confirms Sony
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Sony has confirmed that the PS Vita will be region-free, meaning that gamers should be able to import the handheld and games for it from Japan where it will launch first. Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida revealed the spec tidbit on Twitter, though went on to caution against importing. Last week, it was revealed that the PS Vita would go on sale in Japan on December 17, though US availability has been pegged by retailers for only a couple of weeks after that.
“There are people who are interested in importing the Japanese version of PS Vita from outside Japan, but I personally do not recommend that” Yoshida suggested, going on to explain that “from my experience owning both US a...
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Sony Announces PlayStation Move Titles For Holiday Season
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Sony is hoping to spark new interest in the PlayStation Move game control system for the PlayStation 3 this holiday season with several new games and updated support for additional titles.
The company recently announced that four new Move games and two downloadable content expansions for current PlayStation 3 games will be out before December.
The PlayStation 3 already got the LittleBigPlanet 2 Move Pack: Rise of the Cakeling this week. The pack comes with 12 new levels, a new power-up, and several new level design gadgets that use the PlayStation Move controller.
October will see the release of Everybody Dance and the DLC content pack Infamous: Festival of Blood for the game Infamous 2. Eve...
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Sony changes PSN terms to block class action lawsuits
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This is interesting. In a mandatory PlayStation 3 update, Sony has slipped a change to the terms of service for the PlayStation Network so that users who accept it are basically giving up the right to take part in a class-action lawsuit against them. The new clauses, termed "Binding Individual Arbitration," mandate that any Dispute Resolution Proceedings, whether in arbitration or court, will be conducted on an individual basis only.
Any outstanding class action lawsuits filed against Sony will still stand, including the class action suit filed in April over the PSN security breach. But it seems Sony is protecting itself against further litigation should it be hacked again in the future -- o...
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