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Xperia PLAY by Sony Ericsson Delivers Savagely Brilliant Gaming Platform Camouflaged as a Smartphone
Look in that product release press conference. It’s a smartphone. It’s a handheld gaming system. It’s the Xperia PLAY by Sony Ericsson! Of course, this gaming device business productivity mobile runs the world’s favorite hybrid OS with Gingerbread Android 2.3 and is now available from Verizon wireless for $200. At 4.7 inches high and 2.4 ...
Infographic: The Cost of the PlayStation Network Hacks and Shutdown
This past month saw one of the biggest gaming network shutdowns in our history when Sony yanked the plug on the PlayStation Network in the wake of having customer data exposed by hackers. It took almost 20 days for the service to start to come back again and now that it is, Sony is still ...
Google Plans to Unveil NFC Payment Platform Thursday in New York
While much information on this is yet undisclosed, The Wall Street Journal is positive that search and social media giant Google will be unveiling their plans for a smartphone as digital wallet platform in an upcoming New York conference on Thursday of this week. We’ve been following this angle eagerly for months now as near-field ...
Twitter Swarms Over TweetDeck with $40m Acquisition Deal
Technology journalism media is aflame with the newest acquisition of TweetDeck by Twitter. The social media corporation has decided to make a functionally lateral move by absorbing the social media dashboard software in the wake of them developing their own aggregation services. While the acquisition is yet unannounced (thus the estimated buy may change) but ...
Ballmer Mentions Next-Gen Windows Systems Appearing Next Year
In a speech that’s caused quite a stir amid Microsoft aficionados, CEO Steve Ballmer made remarks at a developers’ conference in Japan on May 23rd by referring to the next-gen of their OS “Windows 8” as appearing next year. However, shortly after news broke about his words, Microsoft swiftly backtracked and said that the next-gen ...
Sony Thailand Server Becomes Host for Phishing Site
Due to recent circumstances, Sony has found themselves in the limelight recently due to PSN downtime after massive data breaches. As a result, we’ve been noticing a lot more about how poorly guarded many of their websites seem to be. This time, the security firm F-Secure discovered that one of Sony’s Thailand websites has been ...
Nordic Dead or Alive Release Yanked Over Child Pornography Concerns
According to multiple sources, Nintendo of Europe will not be releasing Dead or Alive Dimensions in Sweden and potentially Norway and Denmark. The reason? The newest release from the property is believed to run afoul of child pornography laws in these countries. Eurogamer has run a small story about the decision made by video game ...
Akamai Provides Game Companies Shelter from Thunderstorms in the Cloud
As casually as customers approach the Internet and the cloud, there’s still a bit of risk that we take on personally every time we go online. This fact is amplified by leaps and bounds for companies that provide content to clients—they’re online 24/7, 60 seconds of every minute, and uptime is a factor. It has ...
Expression Recognition in Avatar Kinect Continues to Capture the Imagination
The Microsoft Kinect peripheral has been seen as an innovative technology for human-computer interaction and not just for video games as it had been released. Along came CES and Steve Ballmer himself introduced Avatar Kinect to surprised and adoring audience. The technology behind Avatar uses the Kinect’s capability of recognizing facial expressions and translating emotions ...
New PlayStation Network Exploit Discovered, Exacerbated by Recent Hack
Security in the cloud is an evolving process based on solving for current understandings of potential attacks against a system and managing the risk for customers. Today it was discovered that an exploit in the PlayStation Network’s password reset service allows attackers to change your password with only the knowledge of your e-mail and address ...