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Sony to Cut 10K Jobs

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:58:45 CDT

Sony will cut about 10,000 jobs worldwide over the next year as it tries to return to profit, Japanese news reports said today. The decision to slash 6% of its work force comes as it struggles with weak TV sales and swelling losses. New CEO Kazuo Hirai may announce...

Whitney Album Price Nearly Doubles on iTunes

Matt Cantor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:48:09 CST

On Saturday, a Whitney Houston greatest-hits album cost about $8 in the UK iTunes store; but shortly after the singer was found dead, it had jumped to a little more than $12.50. The changed sparked a customer uproar. "It is just a case of iTunes cashing in on the...

Sony Networks Hit With New Attack

Kevin Spak — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:12:22 CDT

Sony’s recently beleaguered Playstation Network, Sony Entertainment Network, and Sony Online Entertainment services have been the target of another attack, the company announced on its Playstation Blog yesterday. This time, the ne’er do wells tested “a massive set of sign-in IDs and passwords against our network database,” Chief Security Officer...

Sony: 90% of Subscribers Have Returned

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:21:15 CDT

Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer credited "very loyal" PlayStation Network gamers for flocking back to the service in big numbers, as he sought today to reassure shareholders following a series of embarrassing hacker attacks. The CEO apologized for the data breach in April , which compromised personal data from more than...

Hackers Grab Data of 1.3M Sega Players

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:20:00 CDT

Hackers have swiped personal data of nearly 1.3 million Sega video game players, the Japanese company has revealed. The information included names, birth dates, email addresses and encrypted passwords, reports AP . Service was "illegally accessed from outside and personal information of all" customers of the online Sega Pass, operated...

Suspects in PlayStation Attack Arrested in Spain

Tim Karan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:32:05 CDT

It's game over for three alleged Spanish hackers. Police in Spain arrested three men suspected in the online attacks against Sony, including one that shut down the PlayStation Network for a month. The men—all in their early 30s—are alleged leaders of a local branch of the international hacker...

Sony Unveils New 'Vita' Portable Gaming Device

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:51:54 CDT

Sony has unveiled its new portable gaming machine—the PlayStation Vita, a touch-interface and motion-sensitive handheld expected to outplay the enormously successful PlayStation Portable. The Vita will go on sale before the winter holidays, starting at $249. The device will allow gamers to be connected with one another over cellphone...

Hackers Hit Sony Again

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:25:37 CDT

According to hacker group Lulz Security or LulzSec, the current score is "hackers 16, Sony 0." That's what the group posted yesterday after claiming to have staged the 16th recent cyberattack on the electronics company. LulzSec posted a file containing Sony Computer Entertainment Developer Network source code, as well as...

Hackers Hit Nintendo

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 08:08:05 CDT

First the hackers came for Sony’s PlayStation Network , and now they’ve breached Nintendo. The Japanese company announced today that one of its US website servers was hacked, but no company or customer information was compromised and nothing was damaged. Though the incident is minor compared to the PlayStation hacking and...