TECHNOLOGY

With service of its PlayStation Network once again resuming, tech giant Sony has officially denied that yesterdays outage was caused by a second security breach.

The latest firmware update for Microsoft's Xbox 360 can leave older versions of the device unable to read high-capacity discs.

Sony's ongoing battle to win back public trust in the wake of its PSN nightmare has just taken another serious blow as a new maintenance notice indicates that its network has once again been hacked.

Revealed just after the unmitigated disaster that was the PSN crash, research carried out the University of Ulm has discovered that any Android smartphone running a version older than 2.3.4 could be leaking sensitive personal data.

In a bid to win back some of the 100 million account holders effected by the PSN's outage, Sony has finally released details of the new identity protection service it will be offering its users.

In a recent meeting with the Wall Street Journal Sony Corp. executive deputy president Kaz Hirai and CEO Sir Howard Stringer indicated that only a "very small" percentage of PlayStation Network users went so far as to cancel their accounts after the network was restored.

Research in Motion has recalled close to 1000 of its newly release PlayBook tablets due to a software flaw within the operating system.

In the wake of a 17-plus hour network outage, that left millions of O2 customers unable to make calls, texts or use the internet, in a statement to the BBC O2 representatives confirmed they will not be offering compensation to those effected.

Research carried out by Hewlett Packard and the University of California Santa Barbara has taken bold strides, discovering several key lessons about memristors, a phenomenas widely considered to be integral in the development of the next generation of electronics.

The 3G-less Blackberry PlayBook was today given its UK release date and initial price.

After a successful theft and vandalism raid hit O2's East London operations site customers accross parts of London, Kent and East Sussex have lost coverage.

Cassidian -- the defence and security division of EADS -- has been tasked to improve the German Army's STINGER air defence training systems.

Jumping on the growing budget smartphone bandwagon, Vodafone has officially confirmed its plans to release its first ever own-brand smartphone.

In its latest bid to boost sales of its 3D TVs, tech giant Samsung has officially announced a new TV app that allows Smart TV owners to stream 3D videos through their television.

With the PlayStation Network now limping back to life, Sony has revealed the the content of its American "Welcome Back" gift package.

A recent report from the Dow Jones Newswire has indicated the reason for the delaying the PSN relaunch in Japan stems from government intervention.

Having only just revealed the Samsung Series 5 as the first machine to make use of the its new Chrome OS, Google has now confirmed that the mobile network provider Three will be its official UK running partner at launch.

Speaking at the Google Zeitgeist event in Hertfordshire, UK chancellor George Osborne highlighted the growing threat cyber crime is presenting the government in its attempts to make more public service data available online.

Despite debuting to mixed reviews Bethesda’s surreal online shooter Brink has entered the UK chart at number one.

With PSN service finally crawling back to life, Sony representatives have offered an olive branch of peace to frustrated consumers in the shape of an as yet unspecified "Welcome Back" package of services and premium content.

Steve Ballmer, the Chief Executive of Microsoft, has indicated that the $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype by his company could see an increase in advertising on Skype.

Samsung's slimmest and lightest smartphone yet, the Samsung Galaxy S II is set to arrive in UK on 1st May 2011. The Galaxy S II is the first handset to offer Samsung's Super AMOLED Plus screen technology, the largest, brightest and most colourful screen available in Samsung's portfolio of devices.

Intel Corp, chipmakers have splashed out on McAfee - publisher of the popular McAfee antivirus software as it sees the firm's mobile antivirus as an important pillar of its future business.

LG has announced it plans to sell one million Windows Phone 7 devices as it announces targets for the handheld devices.

Apple has hired a near field communications veteran as its Product Manager for Mobile Commerce, as it seeks to put forward a strategy for a gadget 'possiblly iPhone 5' that could contain NFC (near field communications) technology.

Gartner Research has revealed its latest smartphone data release with sales up 50 pct as the market share for the internet-enabled phones rose substantially.

Mozilla, developers of the popular Firefox browser have added in multi-touch support for Windows 7 in its latest release.

A complicated sting by Sky News which saw cameras and keystroke recording programs attached to a PC sent for repair has convicted an engineer, Grzegorz Zachodni to jail.

3, the UK's fifth largest mobile operator has the last to announce it will stock Blackberry's latest 'Torch' phone.