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Sony renames NGP as PS Vita, starts from $249

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  Sony has revealed more details of its NGP gaming console at the E3 expo. Henceforth, the handheld console will be known as PS Vita and will be released at the end of 2011 (presumably, in time for holidays). Sony will release two variants of the PS Vita – Wi-Fi priced at 24,980 yen in […]

Sony PS4 in the works

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  Sony’s Masaru Kato, vice president and chief financial officer confirmed in an investor conference call that they’re already working on the PS3 successor. Although PS3’s shelf life is still few years away, Sony is incurring some costs in building up the PS4. “For the home equipment the PS3 still has a product life but […]

Sony to restore PSN and Qriocity in Asia from tomorrow

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  Sony has announced that they’ll restore the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services in Asian countries like Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand from tomorrow. The phased restoration will also bring in new identity protection program, adding a thick layer of security to withstand any future attacks. For Japanese PlayStation users, Sony has even […]

Sony creates Smart AR Augmented Reality Technology

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  Sony today announced that they’ve developed an integrated Augmented Reality technology dubbed as Smart AR. Although we already have some AR solutions, Sony prides its tech by combining object recognition technology and own 3D space recognition technology, which was used in Sony robots like AIBO and QRIO. Smart AR allows objects to be recognized […]

Sony Online Entertainment suffers security breach

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  Hacking woes at Sony are far from over. Sony today announced that their engineers have detected an illegal intrusion in Sony Online Investigation systems. The intrusion also resulted in a massive data theft, which according to Sony and security consultants’ estimate, 24.6 million accounts including an outdated data database from 2007 have been stolen. […]

Sony unveils S1 and S2 Honeycomb tablets in Japan

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  The previous leaks were right on the money. Sony has introduced two new tablets in Japan – S1 and S2. The S1 is meant for the home use and features a small curve at the top (just like in the leak) to resemble like a folded magazine. The 9.4-inch S1 is powered by Nvidia’s […]

Sony PS3 sales surpass 50m units

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  4 and a half years and Sony’s PS3 gaming console has finally reached the iconic milestone of 50 million PS3 units. As of March 29, 2011, Sony has managed to sell 50 million PS3s worldwide indicating the strong growth of the console since its launch in November 2006. Sony also confirmed that its PlayStation […]

Sony settles lawsuit with George Hotz (Geohot)

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  Looks like Geohot’s famous rap against Sony couldn’t really fire up the hacker. Sony and Geohot have now announced that they’ve reached a settlement in the lawsuit. The intrinsic details of the lawsuit remain under wraps but Hotz has agreed to a permanent injunction. Hotz had posted security system of the console online and […]