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Sony’s So-Net Entertainment subsidiary hacked

Sony seem to be in the press recently for all the wrong reasons and another event took place this week which is sure to lower consumer faith in the brand name. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Sony's So-Net Entertainment subsidiary was hacked by unknown sources, who made off …

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Symantec have $3 billion to invest in acquisitions this year

Symantec are one of the industries big players and Enrique Salem, their chief executive is not hiding his desire to invest in new opporunities. According to Reuters he is in the market for new takeovers. Symantec's last deal was to purchase Verisign for the secure transaction sign up capabilities. This …

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Kingston launch survey with sexy prizes

Kingston are currently involving members of the public in a new survey. They know that techies love freebies, so they are giving away some very nice prizes to get everyone interested. The prizes are: HyperX Genesis 1600MHz 8GB kit Kingston SSDNow V+100 96GB SSD HyperX MAX 3.0 drive How do …

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Is L.A. Noire the hottest game of 2011?

In the UK on Friday one of the years most anticipated games is released, the new title from RockStar Games. This game features new technology for capturing actors movements. L.A. Noire has been released in America and has been receiving rave reviews on many of the major gaming websites. Actor …

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Sony roll out 3.61 firmware update for PS3

Many readers will be pleased to hear that Sony's Playstation Network is back online for the UK audience with the aim to get all services back in action by the end of the month. Sony have released a new 3.61 firmware which has to be applied to the console after …

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Nvidia to release fixed GTX590 in June

According to VR-ZONE, Nvidia are planning on fixing the poor design of the GTX590 and will re-release it in June. They claim a ‘much needed hardware fix where the new inductors are added to the card'. Kitguru reported on this many months ago, after many cards were failing due to …

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RIM recall 1,000 Playbook tablets – faulty OS

Research In Motion haven't had an ideal launch for the Playbook, early sales indicators weren't positive and latest reports show that they have just recalled 1,000 of the tablets which have shipped with ‘faulty' operating systems which may have stopped users from getting past the initial setup of the device. …

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Is Amazon Cloud a breeding ground for hack attacks?

Earlier in the week, we reported that Sony were compromised by hackers renting servers from Amazon. This hacker used Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) service to attack Sony's online entertainment systems last month. The intruder set up a fake name to use the account, and managed to get away with …

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Sony begin rebooting of Playstation Network

Sony have been working on bringing back the PlayStation Network, and yesterday they started a limited restoration, with further restoration in the plans for today. Sony have said they would begin bringing their PlayStation Network back online in the Middle East, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and America regions. The network …

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Playstation hack came from Amazon EC2

Bloomberg news have reported that the hackers who breached the Sony Playstation Network security used Amazon's web services cloud to launch the attack. According to the story, the hacker(s) rented a server from Amazon's EC2 service and breached the network from there, mentioning an unnamed person with knowledge of the …

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Apple put support behind hooker application

We were alerted today to a new application that is due for release on Apple's App Store. It looks as if Apple are approving its use which is unusual as it offers guys the opportunity to ‘liase' with woman for money. Sugarsugar.com have announced that their upcoming ‘dating application' is …

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Google Chromebook – is this the future?

Apple have been changing the tech industry in the last year. It has been shown in analysis that the iPad is killing netbook, and even some notebook sales. Google have stepped into the mix, with their new computer platform. They hope to change elements of the PC age, adopting ideas …

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WebGL exploit opening browser users to serious attacks

The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team is advising users of Firefox and Opera users to disable WebGL. An exploit means that machines can be remotely controlled by malicious users. The webstandard WebGL has a weakness which opens the browsers to serious attacks, including the remote execution of malicious code, according …

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Microsoft won’t be dropping Skype support for Apple

With Microsoft's recent purchase of Skype, rumors were flying that they might be ditching support for rival platforms. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put the theory to death by saying “We will continue to invest in Skype on non-Microsoft client platforms.” Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion which many feel is …

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nVidia to spend $367m in Icera takeover

nVidia are keen to target the mobile market and have announced plans to take over Icera, a baseband processor developer based in Bristol in the UK. The deal will cost them $367 million. Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang said “This is a key step in Nvidia's plans to be a …

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AMD Bulldozer details leaked?

We received an email tonight from RumorPedia which looks to have been leaked information from Gigabyte detailing the upcoming AMD Bulldozer platform. According to the image, the machine is an AMD FX8110 processor running at 2.8ghz, based around socket AMD 3B 942. When set to turbo boost, the core speed …

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Rumor: Apple to ditch Intel on MacBooks – going ARM based

There are rumors circulating that Apple may drop Intel chips and move the design of future MacBooks onto similar silicon that powers Apple's iPhone and iPad. This is obviously heightened by reports that Windows 8 will support both ARM and Intel platforms. While in theory this seems like a logical …

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