Sony can update PS3 firmware without asking

Social media sites should not be blocked during law and order situations as they be quite handy when it comes to providing intelligence to the law enforcement agencies, claims London mayor Boris Johnson. Interestingly, Mr....

As a part of their ongoing assault on Sony, the hackitivist group Anonymous reportedly set up a Facebook page titled “Operation Boycott Sony”, issuing a warning to the company to prepare itself for some kind of...

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has confirmed that the company will be launching its own tablet PC device by summer's end this year. According to a report on Japanese newspaper Nikkei, the tablet PC device will run on Google's Android...

Both the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and arc will be available from Vodafone as the mobile phone operator has put up preorder pages for both handsets. The Xperia arc is free on pay monthly contracts starting from only £30 per...

Sony is reportedly working on a PlayStation Certified tablet device with a 9.4 inch screen which will run on the Android 3.0 operating system. According to Engadget, Sony is planning to enter tablet market with a media...

A hacker has released what he believes to be the first ever custom firmware for Sony's PlayStation 3.Writing on his blog, Kakaroto said that he wont be releasing his firmware to the public, but has released the tools for others...

Hot on the heels of the discovery of the the PlayStation 3 private root key, and its subsequent leakage by iPhone hacker Geohot, the first custom firmware for the formerly inpenetrable console has been released. A code wrangler...

Sony Ericsson is working of a PlayStation-branded mobile gaming phone based on Android 3.0, according to a report on tech blog Engadget. It sounds an unlikely move for the company, which has yet to even release an Android 2.0...

Finally, Sony Ericsson appears to be committing itself completely to Android with rumours of a gaming platform based around the third version of the OS, together with a PSP-like phone, having emerged online. Engadget's Joshua...

Japanese consumer electronics maker Sony Corp, has been sued by a disgruntled Playstation 3 owner, after the company barred users from using the 'Other OS' option on their gaming consoles via a recent firmware update. The 'Other...

The latest firmware update for the popular Sony Playstation 3 gaming console, version 3.21, apparently causing a slew of issues for some of the so-called fat, first generation models. The update, which was released on the 1st of...

Sony Corporation, the Japan based consumer electronics maker, has announced that after the next firmware update of its PlayStation 3 gaming console, users will not be able to install other operating systems in the gaming...

Sony intends to release a patch which will prevent the installation and use of third-party operating systems. The 'Install other OS' feature, which is widely believed to be the route by which well-known hackers are attacking the...

Sony apparently continues to lose money on each Playstation 3 console it sells, although, it seems that has managed to narrow the lost from $37 to $18 thanks to lower manufacturing costs and Bill of Materials (BoM). Sony Chief...

The hacker, who jailbroke Apple’s blockbuster iPhone, has reportedly achieved another modding feat, this time with the hack of the erstwhile impermeable Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) gaming console.  The 20-year-old...