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Sony Yet to Determine Scope of PlayStation Network Attack

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April 25, 2011
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Sony Yet to Determine Scope of PlayStation Network Attack Sony has yet to determine the full scope of an attack on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services that has left more than 75 million people without access.
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Sony "Rebuilding" PlayStation Network After Attack The outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, now in its fourth day, looks set to continue.
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Best and Worst Android Apps for the Royal Wedding Overall, the upcoming Royal Wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton doesn't seem to be igniting the same degree of creative frenzy among Android developers as with their Apple iOS brethren.
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No Rumor: Nintendo Confirms Wii Successor in 2012 Nintendo gets in front of rumors and confirms Wii successor codenamed Project Café, available in 2012, and viewable at E3 2011 in June.
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Nook Color Update Sends E-Reader Wars into Overdrive Now it's Amazon's turn to up the ante -- Where's that color Kindle?
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U.S. Army Enlists Android for Battlefield Communication The Defense Department has picked Google's Android smartphone OS to power a new military communication device: the JBC-P Handheld.
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Sony's Silence on Cause of PSN Outage is Troubling Sony's silence on the PSN outage creates a news vacuum leaving many to assume a worst case scenario. Should PSN users be worried about more than just getting back to gaming?
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iPhone Records Location Data No Matter What, Report Says Even turning off the iOS device's location services may not stop the data collection -- but rather than nefarious, this operation may simply be poorly designed software.
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Dell Readies 10-Inch Tablets to Fend off iPad Company prepares Windows 7 tablets as well as Android Honeycomb, despite chief's prediction that Android will rule.
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Justice Department Pushes Warrantless GPS Surveillance Analysis: A Supreme Court case is considering whether cops need a warrant before attaching a GPS device to a suspect's vehicle to covertly track its movement.
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Rumored Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Coming This Summer Lenovo is adding to its ThinkPad lineup this summer with a dual-core, single-panel tablet running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), according to unverified Web reports.
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Ultra-thin Lenovo ThinkPad X1 a Match for MacBook Air? Lenovo joins the growing list of Windows notebooks engineered to compete with Apple's MacBook Air
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Firefox 4 Tops 100M Downloads, Fails to Move Share In the month since Firefox 4's launch, the browser has racked up 100 million downloads, Mozilla said last weekend.
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Gamewatch: Darkspore, Outland Check out the latest PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and handheld video games shipping the week of April 25.
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Android Malware Sees Explosive Growth Security outfit Kaspersky spotted over 70 different types of Android malware last month, compared with just two in September 2010. Is Google doing enough to protect Android users?
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Quora: The Next Social Network IT Pros Need to Know? Quora is an increasingly popular social network for asking and answering questions on topics ranging from how Britney Spears was discovered to how to flee Tokyo after an earthquake.
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Microsoft's Own Figures Show Windows Share Shrinking Analysis: Microsoft is bragging that it has licensed 350 million copies of Windows 7, but that number doesn't even keep up with the total number of PCs sold.
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Banks Go Social to Collaborate, Reach Customers Financial services firms are now using social media to get customers involved in online discussion forums, advertise services and monitor what's being said about their businesses.
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Nook Color E-Reader Transforms Into a Great Android Tablet A long-awaited update brings apps, better Web browsing, and e-mail to Barnes & Nobles tablet and e-reader and its $249 price makes it a great value.
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