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Sony Teases PlayStation 4 Console Reveal Ahead of Microsoft's Xbox Announcement

Posted 05/20/2013 at 12:26pm | by Paul Lilly

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It's 'Game-on' between Sony and Microsoft.

Sony today provided a first glimpse of what its next generation PlayStation 4 (PS4) console will look like, though a quick peek is all you get. The reveal comes in the form of a 39-second YouTube clip that flashes between various different close-ups and a blurry shot of the square-shape console as the camera moves increasingly closer, though never coming into focus. Sony is planning to fully unveil the PS4 at E3 on June 10.

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LulzSec Hackers Receive Prison Sentences for Cyber Hijinks

Posted 05/17/2013 at 7:31am | by Paul Lilly

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They did the crimes, now they'll do the time.

It's not always true that crime doesn't pay, because if that's the way it was, there would be a lot less people breaking the law. The problem for criminals is that payback's a bitch if you get caught, as did several LulzSec (Lulz Security) members who fessed up to hacking various companies and organizations, such as Sony, 20th Century Fox, Nintendo, and even the CIA, to name just a few of their targets.

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Sony Claims it Might Actually Make a Quick Profit off the PS4 Thanks to its PC Inspired Design

Posted 05/12/2013 at 7:54pm | by Justin Kerr

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AMD picks up the R&D tab for this generation of consoles.

When the Xbox 360 and PS3 first faced off in the market, both companies took a bath on the hardware. The custom designs pitted two companies with two very different architectures against each other in the market, and consumers really had no way of knowing which was superior. Seven years later the general conscious seems to give Sony the slight nod when it comes to pure console performance potential, but ultimately Microsoft was much better at exposing functionality to developers. PS3 exclusives tended to feature tons of eye candy, but cross platform titles always seemed to work slightly better on the 360. Fast forward to 2013 and both companies appear to be targeting a super charged PC architecture powered by AMD, and as a result, they might actually make money this time.

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Sony Launches Line of Affordable Vaio Fit Laptops Starting at $549

Posted 05/07/2013 at 7:41am | by Paul Lilly

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When's the last time you saw "Vaio" and "affordable" in the same sentence?

Sony's Vaio line doesn't have a reputation for being friendly to budgets, but that's about to change with the introduction of new Vaio Fit laptops and Ultrabooks. Pricing starts at $549, which isn't exactly netbook territory but is a far cry from being expensive for a notebook. For that kind of dough, Sony will sell you a Fit E 14E model, which is a 14-inch laptop that's thin, light, and made of aluminum.

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Sony Xperia Tablet Z Available to Pre-order for $500

Posted 04/29/2013 at 8:24am | by Paul Lilly

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There's no thinner 10.1-inch tablet, according to Sony.

Sony's wedge-shaped Xperia Tablet S didn't exactly take the Android tablet market by storm, and truth be told, we don't think the Xperia Tablet Z will either, though it's an interesting slate. The Xperia Tablet Z, which is now available to pre-order for $500 on Sony's website, is supposedly the world's thinnest 10.1-inch slate measuring just 0.27 inches thick and weighing barely more than a pound (1.09 pounds, to be precise).

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LulzSec Hacker Receives One-Year Sentence for Sony Shenanigans

Posted 04/19/2013 at 8:12am | by Paul Lilly

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Sony breach cost the company over $600,000.

A U.S. judge ordered Cody Kretsinger, otherwise known as "Recursion" by his LulzSec cohorts, to serve a year and one day in prison after the hacker pleaded guilty to computer crimes related to an organized breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment last year. As part of Kretsinger's plea bargain, the 25-year-old is also required to perform 1,000 hours of community service, pay Sony $605,663 in restitution, and serve a period of home detention following his time behind bars.

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Several LulzSec Hackers Plead Guilty to Sony Breach

Posted 04/09/2013 at 9:37am | by Paul Lilly

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Young activists fess up to series of hacker attacks.

Ryan Ackroyd, a 26-year-old from South Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to a single count of a computer-related hacking charge, according to a report in U.K.'s The Guardian newspaper. Ackroyd admitted in court to being involved with hactivist organization Lulz Security, otherwise known as LulzSec, and to plotting a series of attacks on websites such as 20th Century Fox, Sony, Nintendo, News International, Arizona state police in the U.S., and other targets.

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AMD: Nvidia is ‘Bitter’ Over PS4 Snub

Posted 03/31/2013 at 2:14am | by Pulkit Chandna

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AMD exec touts PS4’s Jaguar APU as being more than just a run-of-the-mill x86 solution

From insisting that it was the one who dumped Sony to taking a jibe at the Playstation 4’s AMD supplied custom APU, Nvidia has been behaving a lot like a jilted lover ever since the Japanese company unveiled its eighth-generation console last month. But what does archrival AMD, which currently enjoys a near-monopoly in the console market, have to say about why it was chosen ahead of Nvidia for Sony’s next-generation console?

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Nvidia Calls The PS4 “Low End”

Posted 03/17/2013 at 11:40am | by Justin Kerr

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Competition drives innovation and trash talk in equal measure

Nvidia didn’t say much when the PS4 was announced, but today they came out swinging. During an interview with Maximum PC’s sister site Techradar, Nvidia’s Tony Tamasi claimed that, "Compared to gaming PCs, the PS4 specs are in the neighborhood of a low-end CPU, and a low- to mid-range GPU. If the PS4 ships in December as Sony indicated, it will only offer about half the performance of a GTX680 GPU (based on GFLOPS and texture), which launched in March 2012, more than a year and a half ago."

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Sony Working on Firefox OS Smartphone

Posted 02/27/2013 at 12:59am | by Pulkit Chandna

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The company aims to have its first Firefox OS product on the market in 2014

The ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has made one thing very clear: that Mozilla’s Firefox OS is steadily gaining support among mobile carriers, with as many as 18 carriers from around the world having already been confirmed as backers of the platform. One such carrier, Spain-based Telefónica, has entered into an agreement with Sony to, among other things, “explore” the development of a Firefox OS-based handset.

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