TECHNOLOGY

Having just triumphantly revealed its new Project Cafe Wii U console at this year's E3 expo Nintendo share prices have unexpectedly fallen in value.

Just after restarting its PlayStation Store and announcing its new Vita handheld, Sony has posted a statement on its website confirming that the security breach claimed by the hacker group LulzSec on its pictures and entertainment website was authentic.

Facebook has attempted to downplay privacy concerns after the company quietly switched on technology that automatically identifies people in photographs.

With Nintendo having just unveiled its latest console the Wii U, the company has posted a video showing a selection games consumers can expect to see in its launch line-up later next year.

With Nintendo only just having revealed its new Wii U console, despite a lack of firm information regarding the new console's technical spec, analysts and consumers are already questioning whether Nintendo has repeated its past mistakes with the Wii.

Last night at this year's E3 fans finally got a glimpse of Nintendo's new Project Cafe console, which as it turns out is actually called the Wii U.

Apple boss Steve Jobs returned from medical leave to unveil the company's much-hyped iCloud service at its annual developers' conference on Monday.

With Sony having just revealed its new handheld PlayStation Vita console, analysts and consumers alike have begun speculating about whether the Vita will be able to reverse the handheld console market's ailing fortunes.

As Sony looks to rebuild its tattered public standing after the recent PSN-hack the company used its E3 press conference on Monday to highlight a raft of new additions.

At this year's E3 expo, Electronic Arts revealed four new EA Sports titles set to received Kinect support in the next 12 months.

LulzSec's recent claim of a new successful hack on Sony's networks has come just after Sony's public apology to fans at this year's E3 expo, leading to fresh speculation about whether the company will be able to recover from its recent PSN hacking nightmare.

With Microsoft's E3 press conference out of the way, the IBTimes wraps up the key products and services it chose to reveal and demo at this year's expo.

Last night as a part of its contribution to this year's E3 expo, not only did Sony announce the renaming of its portable NGP console, it also released the handheld's tech specs.

After yesterday hacking Nintendo "just for LulzDec", the hacker group has today released a fresh statement claiming to have successfully breached Sony's online security again.

After the an earlier report outlining Microsoft's plans for this year's E3, the company has since leaked information confirming that it will be revealing two new Halo games at the expo.

With E3 beginning with Microsoft's press conference in just a few short hours, the IBTimes takes a look at what fans should expect from Nintendo at this year's expo.

With this year's E3 kicking-off in just a few short hours, the IBTimes takes a look at what consumers should expect from tech-giant Sony at this year's expo.

With the games industry already weakened after April's attack on Sony's PlayStation Network, the hacker collective LulzSec have mounted a fresh cyber assault not just on Sony, but also game-development guru Nintendo, leading to speculation about a possible future assault on Microsoft.

With Microsoft's E3 press conference set to begin in just a few short hours, the IBTimes takes a look at the last minute updates and rumours surrounding the company's 2011 line-up.

The "Welcome Back" free gifts Sony offered consumers as recompense for the near two month PSN outage is now available for all PlayStation 3 and PSP customers.

In the wake of the latest cyber attack on Sony's networks, one of the company's chief rivals Nintendo has confirmed that its network had recently been the target of a similar hacking attempt.

With Sony only just having gotten its PSN and PlayStation Store fully functioning, the hacker group LulzSec have released a statement claiming to have once again bypassed Sony's online security -- this time on one of its websites -- but, unlike the first PSN breach, it appears that a significant proportion of the general public have reacted with pity or even sympathy rather than anger.

Since search-giant Google confirmed a recent attack on its Gmail service, speculation about a possible security breach to the U.S. Government's network has arisen, with the Chinese Government once again being suspected of coordinating the cyber attack.

On the same day that Sony Corp. finally managed to restart its PlayStation Store service, a new group of hackers claimed to have successfully bypassed the company's online security, compromising a further one-million Sony customers account information.

After partial service was restored to the PlayStation Network midway through last month, the PlayStation Store has finally been re-activated early this morning.

Since Nintendo announced its intention to unveil its new Project Cafe console at the E3 expo later this month, critics and fans alike have been speculating about what new features the console will boast.

As the debate around cyber attacks intensifies, with the newly revealed assault on Google's Gmail service and the U.S. zero-tolerance policy, the U.K. has launched its own initiative -- a recruitment competition designed to groom the next generation of cyber security experts.

Since Google revealed that the latest cyber attack against its Gmail service once again stemmed from China, representatives for the Chinese Government has spoken out and officially denied the country's involvement.

Just days after the U.K. and U.S. governments indicated a new zero-tolerance policy to cyber attacks, the search-giant Google has confirmed that it recently suffered yet another attempted cyber raid on its email service.