Posts Tagged ‘PS3’

A patent IP firm has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and Sony claiming that the companies should be liable for infringing on a patent that holds the rights to being able to set player preferences in a video gaming device – such as the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Game consoles are generally perceived as instant-on devices. However, the current generation suffers from a mandatory update syndrome that strangles the purpose of a family room entertainment device. Sony and Microsoft, this has to improve in the next generation.

Sony announced a generous band aid today, welcoming its PlayStation Network (PSN) users back with two free games, a weekend of (selected) free video rentals, 100 free PS Home items and a month of free PlayStation Plus membership. So, are you satisfied or greedy? Do you feel appreciated?

After almost one month of outage, Sony has partially brought back its PlayStation network (PSN) today.

In case you missed it, Sony had a series of major data breaches this month and you may have been impacted if they have your financial information. Whenever financial information is stolen you do need to take it seriously and change any of the related credit cards to be absolutely sure your information won’t be compromised. However, I currently doubt that these breaches have anything to do with stealing your information. They appear to be designed to hurt and embarrass Sony.

Sony is sorry for the hack into its Playstation Network (PSN). So sorry that it will be handing out free stuff to its users. Kazuo Hirai has played the victim role very well yesterday and you could have almost shed some tears when he announced that Sony will be standing up and reanimate PSN later this week. But let’s not forget who the real victim is: You. Sony will have to do much better to restore what has been damaged over the past 10 days.

Sony is still struggling to bring its hacked PlayStation online and conceded that hackers were able to exploit a known vulnerability to gain access to its servers. The company said that some services will be restored within the coming week and the company will be offering free premium content to its 77 million users.

Sony will, for the first time, provide information about its PlayStation Network (PSN) breach via one of its top executives. Kazuo Hirai, executive deputy president, will be speaking to the press at 1 am EDT on Sunday. Hirai is likely to announce the restart of the PSN and provide some background information. Hirai’s future will depend on how well he handles this situation.

Sony’s PlayStation Network Hack is not just a pain in the butt anymore. It has turned into a serious security concern as Sony confirmed that hackers have obtained critical personal confirmation of PSN subscribers and had, at least theoretically, access to credit card data.

Sony had to surrender to a hacking attack late last week and shut down its Playstation Network (PSN). It is still down. Is it time to be concerned and do you really care?

The Xbox 360 may have been outselling Sony’s PS3 in the U.S., but Sony has now taken the lead globally.

IHS Screen Digest has published new movie download market share numbers and it appears that iTunes has suffered the first major drop in movie download revenue share in the U.S. in several years.