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Sony announcing three NEX lenses on August 24th?
August 13, 2011 | No Comments | Technology
Last month we fell in love with a camera. Specifically, the Sony NEX-C3. We were so enamored with its lilliputian body and stunning image quality that we gave it a “9,” declared it nearly perfect and promptly began recommending it to everyone we know. But if there’s one thing we thought needed improvement, it was the selection of lenses. Well, it looks like we had nothing to fret about — a series of leaked shots suggest the outfit’s had at least three in the works all along. According to the shots, originally posted in DPReview, we’re looking at a 50-210mm / F4.5-6.3 zoom lens and fixed 50mm / F1.8 and 24mm / F1.8 numbers. Though the poster stopped short of revealing any pricing info, he seems confident Sony will announce them on August 24th. Now, while we typically take rumors with a grain of salt, it turns out that the tipster who posted these shots is none other than “Eddieaus,” the same guy who splattered forums with pictures of the VAIO Z next to its external Power Media Dock — the same press photos, in fact, that Sony unveiled days later. So we’re inclined to believe NEX loyalists are about to get a few new pieces of glass to play with. And if that rumored August 24th launch date is also on the money, you won’t have to wait too long to find out how many pretty pennies they’ll cost.
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Stuxnet, RSA and Sony scoop pwnie awards
August 4, 2011 | No Comments | Security
The winners of the pwnie awards were announced last night at an event in Las Vegas, Nevada. A total of nine awards were due to be presented in categories including most innovative research, most epic fail and ‘lamest vendor response’.
It was Sony who stole the show, with all five pwnie nominations for ‘most epic fail’ scooping awards. The wins were for erasing PS3 jailbreak information after it was published online, failing to protect between 25 to 77 million user account details, LulzSec’s ‘sownage’ campaign, shutting down their PlayStation Network and laying off a significant number of its network security team.
The pwnie for epic 0wnage, given to the hackers responsible for delivering the ‘most damaging, widely publicised or hilarious 0wnage’, went to Stuxnet. The pwnies said: “How many centrifuges did your rootkit destroy? How many national nuclear programs did your worm disrupt? How many zero-day exploits and rootkits for equipment, that no one you have ever heard of, have you written? Exactly.”
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Sony Cybershot TX55 Shoots HD Video And 12-Megapixel Stills, At The Same Time
July 25, 2011 | No Comments | Technology
Although I’ve never been a huge fan of the Cybershot line, it’s interesting to see how much tech Sony has been dumping into these things of late. For example, this $ 350 camera shoots full 1080i video and 12-megapixel stills at exactly the same time with no interruption.
It has 5X optical zoom and some sort of 16-megapixel 10X digital zoom and can also shoot in 3D. Panoramas are easy and massive at 42 megapixels. It will be available in September.
I’d love to see the final quality that comes out of this slim shooter and, while I’m sure it’s technically impressive, I’d worry wee bit about overkill.
Zurich Insurance seeking immunity from covering Sony over breach
July 23, 2011 | No Comments | Security
Sony’s insurer is contesting any obligation to cover the electronics giant for costs related to lawsuits filed over its massive PlayStation Network breach earlier this year.
In a complaint filed with the state Supreme Court in New York, Zurich American Insurance Co. is seeking “declaratory relief” from having to defend and possibly compensate Sony over class-action lawsuits or state attorneys general actions filed in response to the breach.
The complaint contends that Sony has been named in 58 class-action lawsuits, including three in Canada. Zurich argues that it is not liable to indemnify Sony for these costs because its policy with the company only covers claims for bodily injury, property damage or personal and advertising injury. Sony’s policy contains “certain exclusions” related to “class-action complaints and miscellaneous claims,” according to the complaint, filed Wednesday.
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Sony and Adobe offer $200,000 prize to app devs
July 14, 2011 | No Comments | Security
Sony and Adobe have teamed up to offer a $ 200,000 prize fund for developers.
The ‘Adobe AIR App Challenge Sponsored by Sony’ has been invented to drive the creation of apps built using Adobe’s authoring tools specifically for Sony’s impending tablets, codenamed S1 and S2, which run Google’s Android operating system.
“Adobe’s creative tooling brings digital experiences to life on small screens and large, unleashing the imagination of millions of the industry’s best designers and developers on a new breed of devices” blathered a Sony exec with an infeasibly long job title, adding, “We are thrilled to empower these cutting edge creatives to be the first to bring innovative content and apps to our ‘Sony Tablet’ devices later this year.”
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Sony Exec Calls PlayStation Network Hack ‘A Great Experience’
July 14, 2011 | No Comments | Security
The president of Sony Network Entertainment called the four-week outage of the PlayStation Network a “great experience,” he said Wednesday. Moreover, he said that sales have been “better than ever”.
Tim Schaaff, the president of Sony Network Entertainment sat down with VentureBeat executive editor Dylan Tweney on Wednesday for a wide-ranging chat at the MobileBeat conference here. Tweney asked Schaaff how Sony had recovered from the outage, which dominated headlines for weeks.
“We’re back online, everything’s live again around the world, and the amazing thing through all of this is that the customers have all come back, and network performance is better than ever, sales are better than ever, and we’ve been very, very pleasantly surprised by the experience,” Schaaff said. “And we’re in a place where we’re really looking forward again to what’s next, what’s new, and how we can keep growing the network. It’s a pretty crazy event that we went through but we survived, and we’re back strong, and ready to go.”
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Hackers plant bogus celebrity stories on Sony Music Ireland website
July 5, 2011 | No Comments | Security
If you went to the website of Sony Music Ireland (sonymusic.ie) earlier today you would have discovered some astonishing celebrity stories:
- Scientists have proved that the X Factor TV show is for the stupid.
- Two members of the Irish pop band “The Script” were found dead in their backstage dressing room.
- Rebecca Black (the teenage singer who became an internet meme after her phenomenally bad “Friday” video became a YouTube hit) has married R Kelly in Disneyland.
Perhaps most astonishingly of all, the story claims that Miss Black has joined Sony’s security team.
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