Friday, May 6, 2011

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Sony CEO apologizes for PSN breach and explains forensic analysis process

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In a rare move, Sony's CEO Howard Stringer sent out a heartfelt letter detailing the challenges the company [...] Related posts: Sony apologizes over ‘Other OS’ removal as Amazon refunds disappointed buyer Sony: Nintendo Wii has a better business model than the PS3 Sony boss outlines PS3 rescue plan

BioWare: Mass Effect 3 delayed to add more polish

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BioWare recently revealed that the highly anticipated title Mass Effect 3 will be delayed into 2012 for a very good reason. The studio apparently [...] Related posts: Bioware: Mass Effect 2 launch day DLC is free PS3 Mass Effect 2 intro module detailed by Bioware Bioware explains increased disk swapping for Mass Effect 2

CNET, CBS sued over LimeWire downloads

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Is CBS responsible for the copyright infringements rife on the Internet? Apparently so. Who is ultimately to blame for online piracy? Is the end user for refusing to pay for content? The people who upload the content in the first place? The people who create and run the websites and software that enables the practice? [...]

Windows Phone 7 sales figures in dispute

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The Windows Phone 7 series has sold four million handsets. Or 674,000. Or, most likely, somewhere in between. Two separate reports have given very different pictures of the sales, though they aren’t completely incompatible. The first comes from analyst firm Canalys. In [...]

Major tech firms accused of wage-fixing

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The likes of Adobe, Google and Apple don’t usually agree on much. But claims of a secret deal between them and three other firms have led to a lawsuit over alleged fixing of employee wages. If the lawsuit is to be believed there’s an intricate web of deals between the various companies where two firms [...]

Could Google or Facebook acquire Skype?

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There are rumors floating around on the street that Skype may be ripe for an acquisition and that the main suitors would appear to be Google and Facebook. Are either of those companies a good fit? Multiple sources are being quoted by Reuters as saying that both Google and Facebook have been in preliminary discussions [...]