For this fine morning, Sony would like to provide you some entertainment in the form of a teaser video for their upcoming Sony S1 and S2 Honeycomb tablets. Heck, with all of the crazy things going on in the video, you may have to pay extra attention to actually see one of the tablets. Enjoy. Via: Sony (YouTube)
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PlayStation Vita Made Official, AT&T Will Carry The 3G Model
It’s the Next-Generation Portable (NGP) with a final name, specs, and price as according to Sony’s E3 2011 keynote. The PlayStation Vita costs $249 for a WiFi model, while AT&T has the exclusive 3G model in the United States, which costs $300, which is rather well-priced, which also means the PlayStation Vita has access to over 20,000 WiFi hotspots hosted by AT&T across the country. Final specs include front and rear cams, Wi-Fi with optional 3G, the amazing 5-inch AMOLED display, GPS, six-axis motion sensors, three-axis electronic compass and touchpads on both sides, which can control games and perform rather amazing things. The launch for the PS Vita is this holiday season.
Sony’s PlayStation Network Has Begun A “Phased Restoration”
It’s time! A new update has been pushed to PlayStation 3s as version 3.61, which also requires you to fully reset your PlayStation Network password on either the PS3 you registered your account on, or via a verified email process. A phased rollout of the PlayStation Network has begun in both the United States and Europe (a map of the U.S. indicating which states have service is available for your viewing here; there’s no map for Europe). The restoration also includes the gaming section of PSN and media connections such as Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, MLB.tv, friends list, chat, PlayStation Home, and more.
Also, Sony’s Kaz Hirai, Representative Corporate Executive Officer and Executive Deputy President (essentially president of Sony’s consumer products division) has a video for you, seen below, which details what precautions have been taken to insure this doesn’t (hopefully) happen again, as well as information about the restoration of the PlayStation Network. Via: PlayStation Blog
Sony PlayStation Network Downtime Should Last Until A Damning May 31st
Geez. A Sony spokesperson told Bloomberg recently that they expect the PlayStation Network servers and services to go online May 31st, which would mean since PSN went down on April 20th, and that it would take them six weeks in total to figure out that they’ve been hacked, invite high-level digital security firms to help with figuring that out, fixing and updating servers, writing several blog posts about how they’re sorry, finally decide to move their servers to “a safer location”, then hitting the “On” switch.
It’s a lot of work, but six weeks? Come on, Sony. Via: Bloomberg
Sony CEO Howard Stringer Apologizes For PSN Outage, Details Its Return
If you’re an angry gamer (and if so, I don’t really like you) then Sony’s CEO, Howard Stringer has some words for the angry, surprised, carefree, and others who have had their PlayStation Network access halted for almost a full month now. First of all, Stringer goes on to apologize in the letter seen in blockquote below, then afterwards in his PlayStation Blog post details the “Welcome Back” package which will apply to all PlayStation users and offers one free month of the PlayStation Plus service, as well as a refund for those already subscribing to PSN+. Also mentioned in the letter is the $1 million identity theft protection for users’ credit cards, but as Mr. Howard Stringer claims, there is no current evidence of any credit card information being stolen from users.
Howard Stringer’s apology to PSN users:
“I know some believe we should have notified our customers earlier than we did. It’s a fair question. As soon as we discovered the potential scope of the intrusion, we shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and hired some of the best technical experts in the field to determine what happened. I wish we could have gotten the answers we needed sooner, but forensic analysis is a complex, time-consuming process. Hackers, after all, do their best to cover their tracks, and it took some time for our experts to find those tracks and begin to identify what personal information had — or had not — been taken.
He later goes on to mention that the PlayStation Network should be up “in the coming days”.
Via: PS Blog
Geohot On The L33t PSN Security Breach
Guess who is commenting the PlayStation Network breach that has sent PSN into more than a week’s downtime? Geohot, Sony’s most hated hacker. In a recent blog post, 3l33t hacker Geohot says that first and foremost, he had nothing to do with it. See here:
“And to anyone who thinks I was involved in any way with this, I’m not crazy, and would prefer to not have the FBI knocking on my door. Running homebrew and exploring security on your devices is cool, hacking into someone else’s server and stealing databases of user info is not cool. You make the hacking community look bad, even if it is aimed at douches like Sony.”
But wait, there’s more from Geohot:
“The fault lies with the executives who declared a war on hackers, laughed at the idea of people penetrating the fortress that once was Sony, whined incessantly about piracy, and kept hiring more lawyers when they really needed to hire good security experts. Alienating the hacker community is not a good idea.”
All in all, is makes plenty of sense. Via: Geohot
Sony’s S1 And S2 Android Honeycomb Tablets Will Launch In The Fall
Fresh from a press conference in Tokyo (where else?) Sony announced two Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets that may be subject to design changes, however here are their specs anyway: the Sony S1 tablet is a 9.4-inch device with a Tegra 2 SoC processor that has an “off-center of gravity design,” the while S2 sports has a folding form factor (a la Microsoft Courier) with dual 5.5-inch displays at a resolution of 1,024 x 480. Both will have access to an eBooks store, PlayStation Network (get it back online, Sony!) with Qriocity music services, have DLNA, are PlayStation Certified, have access to WiFi and 3G/4G radios, and their own UI enhancements/skins. They are expected to launch sometimes in the fall of 2011, globally. Press release at the end of the post.
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