Sony’s Norio Ohga passed away on April 23 at 81 years of age from multiple organ failure. Ohga is perhaps best known for driving the development of the compact disc, which Sony first released back in 1982.
While studying music at a Tokyo university in 1953, Ohga was hired as a consultant by Sony thanks to his “expert knowledge of …
BGR.com has what it claims to be photos of a prototype iPhone running on T-Mobile’s network. It looks like a standard—albeit white—iPhone 4 model, which BGR asserts may just be for “testing the new T-Mobile-friendly radio with its current iPhone 4 hardware, possibly in preparation for integration in a future device.”
It’d be odd …
A holiday weekend without Portal 2 or Mortal Kombat matchups, a five-day grand total of uninterrupted void, and yes, Sony’s PlayStation Network remains in the fetal position as we pull into Monday, April 25.
[UPDATE: Sony Admits Personal Info at Risk, Claims PSN Back Up In a Week]
We still know virtually nothing about what …
Early this morning, Nintendo released financial results for its just-ended 2010 financial year. They brag that the total combined sales of software for the DS handheld and Wii have surpassed 1.5 billion units, with 139 DS titles and 103 Wii titles breaking the 1 million mark.
But, tucked away alongside all the fiscal cheerleading was …
The first thing you notice about Kiip CEO Brian Wong is how decidedly un-CEO he actually looks.
Case in point: I made two swervy surveillance laps around a not-at-all-crowded, lower-level concourse in 30 Rock before I spotted the 20 year old Digg alum alone at a table, scrunched over his iPhone. In nerdy black glasses and a halfway …
Sony claims its PlayStation Network was attacked by unidentified outside forces, and said that it preemptively shut the 70 million subscriber service down.
In his third update since the outage began on Wednesday evening, April 20th, Sony senior director of corporate communications and social media Patrick Seybold wrote on the official …
Call it a record, or just a whole lot better than Windows “rhymes-with missed-ya,” Microsoft says Windows 7 can lay claim to 350 million licenses sold since it launched on October 22, 2009.
And that’s about all they said, meaning no, we don’t have the breakdown in terms of full copies, upgrades, versions bundled with new PCs, …
Known for its ski resorts and the Sundance Film Festival, Park City may also be synonymous with…Skyrim? That’s right. Nestled among Utah’s picturesque, snow-capped peaks, the small town recently hosted Bethesda Softwork’s annual press event, where chapter five of fantasy-RPG franchise The Elder Scrolls stole the show. I didn’t …
Another day, another staggering mess for Amazon’s cloud-based web service, on the fritz since yesterday and causing chaos for sites like Foursquare, Hootsuite, Quora, and Reddit. As of this post, it looks like Reddit’s partly back, as is Box Office Mojo, but determining who’s up or not (or by how much) is like picking through a …
Welcome to Friday, all you PlayStation Network spurned, and yep, it’s still down. No word yet on when it’ll be back, why it happened, if hackers were involved, if Valve’s Steamworks had anything to do with it (Portal 2, which launched on Tuesday, uses it), or what Sony’s doing to fix it.
The company’s offered two laconic …
In technology’s newest arms race, it appears Apple may have beaten out Google in the dash to the cloud.
According to a new report from Reuters, Apple has finished working on a new iTunes-based music service that would allow users to transfer their music libraries onto remote servers. In addition to freeing up valuable hard drive …
Earlier this week, we caught wind that Apple was suing its buddy Samsung, with accusations that the icon designs that Samsung’s been using for its line of Galaxy-branded smartphones and tablets represent “blatant copying” of the icons Apple uses for the iPhone and iPad.
Apple and Samsung have seemingly had a civil working relationship …