| Update on PlayStation Network outages Posted: 
The PlayStation Network has been suffering from random outages starting yesterday. Users have reported sporadic issues when attempting to sign onto their PSN account. Sony just provided an update on [...] Related posts: Microsoft to compensate Xbox live gold members for outages Sony Playstation Network service revenue approaching $1 billion Microsoft hit with lawsuit over [...]  |
| Microsoft goes multiplatform on Steam with Fable 3 Posted: 
Earlier today, Microsoft sent out a press release with some very shocking news about Fable 3. For the first time ever Microsoft will be making its [...] Related posts: Microsoft confirms Fable III is multiplatform Gamescom 2009 Episodic Fable II and Sim-like Fable III thoughts Fable III box art confirms a PC version  |
| Greenpeace parses sand, finds outrage Posted: 
Apple’s North Carolina data center isn’t online, but it’s already the world’s dirtiest. Like all previous Greenpeace media grabs, this latest report is based on estimates, which is a polite way of saying that they’re guessing. That said, who could’ve guessed that they would name the company most likely to attract headlines as [...] Related [...]  |
| Facebook censors gay kiss in error Posted: 
Seeing two people of the same sex snog may not be to everyone’s taste, but that’s doesn’t make a photograph of it happening pornographic. As Facebook has now had to admit with its tail between its legs. There has been a debate raging in the U.K. of late after a gay couple were ejected from [...]  |
| Michigan cops deny illegally snooping at cellphone data Posted: 
The American Civil Liberties Union has accused Michigan police of excessively extracting data from cellphones. The force says this isn’t done illegally without permission, but isn’t willing to say exactly how widespread the practice is. The Michigan force [...]  |
| Amazon cloud fail disrupts major sites Posted: 
FourSquare’s whereabouts was a mystery. Nobody Reddit. And Quora raised plenty of questions. A technical fault with an Amazon data center in North Virginia had a knock-on effect on several prominent websites today. For several hours there were problems with both on online database service and the EC2 cloud computing service. EC2 allows companies to [...]  |
| Verizon gets some iPhone Apple juice too Posted: 
It's the week for companies to announce their numbers and when it was Verizon's turn they were able to show that AT&T was not the only carrier doing well with Apple's iPhone in the first quarter. When AT&T announced yesterday that it had done some killer numbers in the first quarter, analysts suddenly began to [...]  |
