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<title><![CDATA[Sony Online offers ID theft monitoring, in-game bonuses]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sony Online Entertainment today offered more details on how it will compensate customers affected by the three-week-long outage of the PC and console gaming network, which Sony says should be online in &quot;at least a few more days.&quot;U.S. customers with an account for the multiplayer online gaming service will get free identity theft protection from security firm Debix. Customers in other countries will be getting similar offers soon, according to the statement. This is in addition to the offer made last week toPlayStation Network and Qriocity customers affected by the same breach.In addition, all players will get one month of free service as compensation, plus another free day for every day past one month the service remains inaccessible. Sony Online is also giving players in-game bonuses for several of its titles, both for PC games and PlayStation 3 games such as DC Universe Online, Free Realms, and EverQuest.Customers who've paid for &quot;lifetime&quot; subscriptions will get free in-game currency (20,000 coins for Free Realms, 7,500 Galactic Credits for Clone Wars Adventures, and 10 Marks of Distinction for DC Universe Online).For a complete list of the in-game bonus items, see the company's statement.Several of Sony's servers were attacked between April 17 and April 19, leading to the exposure of 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 three weeks ago and said earlier this week it plans to restore them &quot;in the next few days.&quot;Related links&amp;149' Anonymous: Group didn't hack Sony, but members may have&amp;149' The PlayStation Network breach (FAQ)&amp;149' PSN breach exposes records of millionsSony also instituted a &quot;Welcome Back&quot; program to encourage its customers to return to the PSN whenever it does come back online. In addition to free identity theft monitoring through Debix that PSN and Qriocity customers can enroll in for free, Sony says it will offer free downloads, and one month of free PlayStation Plus service for 30 days. Current Music Unlimited by Qriocity subscribers will get 30 days of free service.The company said last week it does not know who orchestrated what it is calling a well-planned &quot;sophisticated&quot; cyberattack. It has pointed to the hacker group Anonymous based on a file it found planted on its Sony Online servers labeled &quot;Anonymous,&quot; with a fragment of the group's tagline &quot;We are Legion.&quot; But the group has denied it orchestrated the event.While Sony investigates the attacks on Sony Online and PSN and rebuilds their security, some third parties that offer services via PSN affected by the outage are also offering discounts as compensation to their customers.Hulu Plus, the subscription version of Hulu, was one of the first to say that since customers can't access its service while the PSN is down it would offer one week of credit to affected users.Major League Baseball has sent its MLB.TV customers an e-mail each week the outage has continued notifying customers they'll receive a $5 refund. MLB.TV customers pay for access to baseball games in packages starting at $100 that they can watch via the Web, some smartphones and set-top boxes, theiPad, and game consoles like the PlayStation 3.Netflix has been intermittently available during the outage for those using the streaming feature via their PS3, but is not offering refunds.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bing scores 30 percent of all searches in U.S.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's Bing captured 30 percent of all searches run in the U.S. last month, market researcher Experian Hitwise said yesterday.Looking at the U.S. search engine market in March, Experian Hitwise found that the number of searches at sites powered by Bing rose by 5 percent since February. That includes searches run on Bing's own site as well as those on Yahoo sites powered by Bing. Individually, Bing.com itself accounted for 14.3 percent of all searches, while the ones on Yahoo tallied 15.7 percent.Market leader Google continued to dominate in the U.S. However, it has seen a gradual, ongoing decline from 69.7 percent in December to 68 percent in January to 66.7 percent in February to 64.4 percent in March. The numbers mimic a trend reported last month by rival market-researcher ComScore.Bing and Yahoo also outperformed Google in successful searches, as defined by Hitwise.Measuring the number of searches that led to an actual visit to a Web site, the research firm calculated an 81 percent success rate for both Yahoo and Bing individually, but a 66 percent rate for Google--numbers that have held steady over the past several months. The success rate can help determine whether a search engine is providing relevant responses. However, Google has in the past questioned Hitwise's findings in this area.A Google Buzz post in February by Google engineer Matt Cutts expressed skepticism over this metric and criticized the way Hitwise defines a successful search as one in which the user leaves the search engine to visit another site.The numbers used by Experian Hitwise are based on 10 million U.S. Internet users.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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