Sony

With the games industry still licking its wounds after Sony's recent spout of hacking troubles, veteran games developer Codemasters today revealed that it to had fallen victim to a successful cyber attack.

Sony has today begun accepting applications for its AllClearID Plus Identity Theft Protection service, for PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service customers.

Sony today announced its earnings for the financial year ending 31 March, 2011, recording a loss close to its initial estimate.

In a post on the PlayStation blog, Sony representatives officially confirmed that the PlayStation Store will not be up and running until the end of the month.

Just after Sony forecast its PSN related $171 estimated loss for the year, veteran game developer Capcom expressed its faith in Sony to recover.

Nearing the end of its two-month long PSN hacking disaster, despite estimating an up to $171 million loss, Sony has managed to record a two per cent rise in share value.

The gaming blog Gamasutra has distributed a memo sent by Sony to its publishing partners, confirming the company's intention to have the PSN's PlayStation Store back online next week on 24 May.

A recent report from CNET has indicated that Apple may have secured a licencing agreement with EMI for its forthcoming cloud-based music streaming service and that it may well be on the verge of signing similar deals with Sony and and Universal.

Since Apple's image-sensor supplier OmniVision revealed a slimmer 5-megapixel unit small enough to fit into Apple's current iPad and iPod touch, rumors have developed that the forthcoming iPhone 5 will be capable of recording 1080p high-definition video.

Speaking at Google's Big Tent event in London, executive chairmen Eric Schmidt promised consumers that the company was dedicated to simplifying the Android app instillation permissions screen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mobile phone company Sony Ericsson has reported a return to profit in the third quarter of 2010, despite a slight drop in sales.