Some things just get less relevant with time and even become painful. I submit to you 3 painful technology-driven punchlines of recent Dennis the Menace comics. I made the same face the dog is giving after reading that one. "Did you really just say that?" … [Read more...]
Sony PlayStation Network Coming Back Up In Phased Restoration
PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are coming back online in a phased restoration after the earlier reported data breach that has had the service offline for almost the entire past month. Kazuo Hirai made the announcement via video in a post at the PlayStation blog. Highlights: Services should be restored regionally for PSN and Qriocity networks including access to … [Read more...]
Netflix Starts Rolling Out To Select Android Phones
Last November, Netflix publicly responded to the questions of why there wasn't an Android app for streaming video yet. Their answer: Android phones didn't have the necessary DRM built-in to lock down the stream. Instead of a broad deployment, they would have to work on a case-by-case basis with select phones that had the necessary DRM capabilities. Today, Netflix announced … [Read more...]
Request Your Invite For Google’s Music Beta
I told you there was more to come from Google in this morning's article. Making good on those promises, the Google Music Beta has launched. If you have been invited, then you can get in. Otherwise, you can request an invite and learn all about the service at music.google.com. … [Read more...]
PlayStation Network Still Down And Probably For Another Week; Personal Data of 70 Million Stolen
Between the 17th and 19th of this month, Sony's PlayStation Network and streaming service Qriocity were compromised through an intrusion into the network. Sony was aware of the intrusion on April 19th and shut the service down as a result, first posting of the outage on April 20th. Since then, the PSN has been unavailable for those wanting to use it for online gaming, playing … [Read more...]