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Sony Hacked Again, But This Time, Comes Clean Quickly

By Jeff John Roberts Oct. 12, 2011, 6:20pm 4 Comments

*Sony* was lambasted last spring after it took seven days to disclose that an attack on its video game network had led to what some called t… Read More »

Google’s China Crisis Deepens With Gmail Hacking Incident

By Ingrid Lunden Jun. 2, 2011, 3:56pm Comments Off

Google’s standoff with China over censorship in search in 2010 was a lowpoint in the search engine’s ambitions to expand to the East, but a… Read More »

Sony Admits Security Breach In PlayStation Network, Qriocity Services

By Ingrid Lunden Apr. 27, 2011, 2:06am 4 Comments

This cloud doesn’t have much of a silver lining right now: Sony (NYSE: SNE) has closed down two of its media services, its PlayStation Netwo… Read More »

Super Bowl XLV: Sony Ericsson Plays With Android In New Xperia Ad

By Ingrid Lunden Feb. 7, 2011, 4:54pm Comments Off

With a Super Bowl commercial grafting human “gaming” thumbs onto a now-familiar green Android, *Sony* Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is finally going… Read More »

Sony Fights Two-Front War With New NGP Device And PlayStation App

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 27, 2011, 7:35pm 2 Comments

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is not yet announcing a “PlayStation Phone” — that, supposedly, is being saved for the Mobile World Congress event in Barc… Read More »

CES: Sony Ericsson, Silent On PlayStation Phone, Launches Curvy Xperia Arc

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 6, 2011, 6:32pm Comments Off

Sony (NYSE: SNE) CEO Howard Stringer’s CES address yesterday was long on 3D being the future for the company, but short on one area that mob… Read More »

Why Sony’s Planned Music Store Won’t Start Out As A Serious iTunes Challenger

By Tameka Kee Nov. 21, 2009, 1:20am 2 Comments

*Sony* keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network (PSN). After scrapping plans to add a music store to the g… Read More »

Sony Prepping A Pay-To-Play Service For The PlayStation Network

By Tameka Kee Nov. 20, 2009, 2:50am Comments Off

Functionality aside, one of the biggest differences between Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE gamer network, and Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) has be… Read More »

As Last.fm, Facebook And Zune Go Live On Xbox, Sony Preps Social Features For PS3

By Tameka Kee Nov. 18, 2009, 12:35am Comments Off

*Microsoft* rolled out a slew of new social features for the Xbox 360 today, making its already popular Xbox LIVE network a much more compre… Read More »

As Netflix/Wii Talks Heat Up, Sony Adds More Video To PlayStation Network

By Tameka Kee Nov. 3, 2009, 12:01am Comments Off

More TV shows, movies and online series coming to the PlayStation Network, as talks between Nintendo and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) reportedly hea… Read More »

Sony Crashes Microsoft’s Netflix Party: The PS3 Gets Streaming, Too

By Tameka Kee Oct. 26, 2009, 10:15pm Comments Off

About that “exclusive” agreement with *Netflix* for streaming movies on the Xbox 360 that *Microsoft* was boasting about … It’s not so ex… Read More »

PS3, Xbox 360 Price Cuts Drive Sales — Will Nintendo Cave And Slash Wii Pricing, Too?

By Tameka Kee Sep. 5, 2009, 2:12am Comments Off

Back-to-back $100 price drops from *Sony* and *Microsoft* for the PS3 and Xbox, respectively, pumped up sales of both consoles in just over… Read More »

Console Price Wars: Microsoft Drops Xbox Elite Down To $299

Sony’s Stringer Dismisses Kotick’s PS3 Threats As ‘Noise’

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