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<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sony begins relaunching PlayStation Network]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Click the image to watch a video message from Kazuo Hirai, executive deputy president of Sony.(Credit:Screenshot by Greg Sandoval/CNET)Sony announced that it will restore game services for thePlayStation Network starting today, and the &quot;restoration&quot; will begin in stages. Sony said nearly its entire portfolio of online games, game forums, and Web sites will go back online, but the company will also require PS3 players to reset their passwords. PSN will be restored first in the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East. Japan and other Asian countries will come at a later date.Several of Sony's servers were attacked between April 17 and April 19, leading to the exposure of the personal data of more than 100 million customers who signed up for PlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online. The company took the networks--for downloading and playing games, movies, and music--offline almost four weeks ago and said earlier this week that it planned to restore them &quot;in the next few days.&quot; Sony said in its statement: The company has made considerable enhancements to the data security, including updating and adding advanced security technologies' additional software monitoring and penetration and vulnerability testing' and increased levels of encryption and additional firewalls. The company also added a variety of other measures to the network infrastructure, including an early-warning system for unusual activity patterns that could signal an attempt to compromise the network.&quot;I'd like to send my sincere regret for the inconvenience this incident has caused you, and want to thank you all for the kind patience you've shown as we worked through the restoration process,&quot; said Kazuo Hirai, executive deputy president, Sony Corporation. &quot;I can't thank you enough for your patience and support during this time. We know even the most loyal customers have been frustrated by this process and are anxious to use their Sony products and services again. We are taking aggressive action at all levels to address the concerns that were raised by this incident, and are making consumer data protection a full-time, companywide commitment.&quot;Sony said it appointed Fumiaki Sakai, president of Sony Global Solutions, to be acting chief information security officer of Sony Networked Entertainment. His job will be to &quot;reinforce overall information security across the company's network infrastructure&quot; while also searching for someone to permanently fill the security officer spot. To encourage its customers to come back to the service, Sony had already announced a &quot;Welcome Back&quot; program that includes 30 days of free access to PlayStation Plus, 30 days of free access to Music Unlimited by Qriocity, as well as free identity theft monitoring from Debix, and a promise of free downloads in the future. Sony has not yet offered specifics on the last promise. In a video message to customers, Hirai said all PS3 customers must change their PSN and Qriocity account passwords upon their return. Related link &amp;149' PSN breach exposes records of millions (roundup)&quot;Your new password can only be changed on the same PS3 in which your account was activated or through validated e-mail confirmation,&quot; Hirai said. Customers will also have to update their PS3 firmware to receive the latest security patches, which can be found here.The multiplayer PC and PS3 gaming network Sony Online has also been relaunched after being taken offline following a breach related to the one that brought PSN down. On Thursday Sony Online &amp;nbsp'announced its own compensation package&amp;nbsp'for users. All players will get one month of free service, and free in-game bonuses for several of its titles.&amp;nbsp'Customers who paid for &quot;lifetime&quot; subscriptions will get free in-game currency.As for the services that remain offline, such as the PlayStation Store and purchasing features for Qriocity, Hirai told users they will be up as soon as possible. Sony said its goal is to restore all functionality by May 31.The outage lasted weeks longer than Sony initially expected, and the company still has not pinpointed who was behind the second-largest security breach in U.S. history.&amp;nbsp'A report from Bloomberg&amp;nbsp'today cited unnamed sources who claim the hackers rented under an assumed name a server from Amazon's cloud service from which to launch the attack.Sony has hinted it believes the hacker activist group Anonymous may have been behind the breach, saying it found a file planted on one of its servers labeled &quot;Anonymous&quot; and containing a fragment of the group's tag line: &quot;We are Legion.&quot; The group has repeatedly denied it orchestrated the attack, though&amp;nbsp'a recent statement from the group&amp;nbsp'allowed for the possibility that people sometimes associated with Anonymous may have been involved.CNET's Erica Ogg contributed to this report.Updated at 6:25 p.m. PTwith additional details.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft de-emphasizes Silverlight at Mix11]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS--As Microsoft works to woo Web developers to its tools, it is subtly trying to wean them from one product that the company once touted as the answer to advanced graphics development: Silverlight.The first day of Microsoft's Mix11 conference here, the company's annual gathering of Web developers, included demonstrations and talk about HTML5, the emerging Web standard. HTML5's promise is to make developing Web applications that use video and animation easy, much the same thing for which Microsoft created Silverlight.But Silverlight was largely missing in action today. The technology was never mentioned in either of the keynote speeches by Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Internet Explorer, and Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform.In debuting a preview version of Internet Explorer 10, Hachamovitch played up its support for HTML5, demonstrating smooth graphics programs loading quickly from the Web, like the new multi-level Pac-Man application, built by Namco for the 30th anniversary of the game.Namco&amp;39's Pac-Man(Credit:Microsoft)Microsoft has been de-emphasizing Silverlight for several months now. As veteran Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley noted at the company's Professional Developers Conference in October, Silverlight started falling off the radar. Just last week, Microsoft played up Silverlight's role as a browser plug-in, which, in turn, demoted its role as the key platform for advanced Web graphics.The reason, according to Tim O'Brien, a general manager in Microsoft's platform strategy group, is that HTML5 has evolved and addresses many of the technical issues that are core to Silverlight. &quot;The things that are driving this shift are the market dynamics,&quot; O'Brien said. As the standard evolves, it becomes easier for developers to create applications for it. And writing for the standard means that the application will run more widely than writing for a plug-in such as Silverlight.Silverlight still has its place, O'Brien said. It offers support for digital rights management, and handles Smooth Streaming, which speeds video start times. &quot;There is no single answer for all programming tasks,&quot; O'Brien said. And tomorrow at Mix11, Microsoft plans to roll out the beta version of Silverlight 5.But it also seems clear that Microsoft is placing an ever-larger bet on HTML5. The company disclosed that its next Professional Developers Conference will be September 13-16 in Anaheim, Calif. For Microsoft, the PDC is a stake-in-the-ground event where the company lays out a broad vision for its vast developer community to follow. The September PDC will likely be the place where the company shares details for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Expect HTML5 to be play a role there as well. &quot;We're going to place more emphasis on HTML5,&quot; O'Brien said.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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