Canadians can now “turn the page on the uncertainties and repeat elections of the past seven years,” Stephen Harper said Monday night as voters delivered the Conservative leader his first majority government and brought a dramatic and unpredicted realignment to the country’s political landscape.
SOE Reports 12,700 Credit Card Numbers, 24.6 Million Accounts Compromised
Sony Online Entertainment has announced today that the server shutdown they announced yesterday was in response to an internal investigation that has shown that 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen.
Even worse, the hackers apparently got their hands on an outdated database from 2007. That database contains around 12,700 credit / debit card numbers from non-US customers, as well as direct debit records for some customers located in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain.
SOE is planning a to grant customers affected by the shut down 30 days of free game time, as well as one day for each days the servers remain down. They also are working on what they call a “make good” plan for those who play SOE MMOs on PS3. The press release also says that SOE is going to “provide a complimentary offering to assist users in enrolling in identity theft protection services and/or similar programs.”
It seems like Sony can’t catch a break right now. If you’re one of those affected, you should address this right away. If you need more information on the breach, or want to see exactly what info is believed to be compromised, you can visit www.soe.com/securityupdate.
Microsoft’s home of the future lulls teens to sleep with tweets (video)
Microsoft Home is a sort of “world of tomorrow” for the computer nerd set where Surface takes the place of video phones and dinner pills. The only difference is that, unlike those World’s Fair staples, Redmond’s vision of the not-so-distant future isn’t open to the public. This is a private testing ground where researchers can try out concepts, like a watch that records health data and syncs it with your home network or a media center that can analyze video and identify products and locations featured on screen. You might not be able to swing by the campus and visit, but you can catch a glimpse of suburban life in 2025 — populated by touchscreen wireless charging trays and interactive walls — in the video after the break. We’ll take it all, except the wallpaper — we don’t need #winning tweets floating overhead while we try to get some shut-eye.
[Thanks, Vygantas]
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BlackBerry to integrate Bing services at the OS level
Steve Ballmer made an appearance today at BlackBerry World 2011 and after briefly pimping Windows Phone live on stage, announced a partnership between Microsoft and RIM to integrate Bing into BlackBerry products. In addition to making Bing the default search and map provider for all BlackBerry devices going forward, the services will be added at the OS level instead of being bundled as a series of apps. This will provide features ranging from voice and location-aware search to panorama stitching. It also suggests that we’ll likely see another iteration of the BlackBerry OS beyond version 7 — based on QNX, perhaps? — sometime before the holidays.
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Reader Plus Is a Chrome Extension that Adds Missing Features to Google Reader [Downloads]
Chrome: Reader Plus is an extension for Google Chrome that adds missing features, easy theming, and many small touches to Google Reader. More »
NDP’s Layton becomes Official Opposition leader
NDP Leader Jack Layton declared “a new chapter begins” after his party easily vaulted over the Liberals in Monday’s federal election – the first time in history the New Democrats have become Official Opposition.
Amazon tablet shipping later this year according to new tattle
We’ve got a pretty good inkling that it’s coming — the big question is when will Amazon finally ship an LCD tablet. According to DigiTimes, and its occasionally trusty sources at upstream component makers, when is defined by the second half of 2011. What’s more, the media tablet will feature a Fringe Field Switching LCD display and touch panel from Amazon fave E Ink Holdings, a company better known for the technology behind the Kindle’s EPD e-paper displays. According to DigiTimes, Quanta has received the manufacturing honors with production expected to peak at about 700,000 – 800,000 units per month. So yeah, the Amazon Kindle tablet won’t be sporting a Mirasol display according to this gossip. Then again, it’s only gossip so anything goes.
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Working Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 spotted, handled in Germany (video)
We had a chance to peek at a glass-protected dummy version of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 8.9 at CTIA, but the real thing popped up at an event in Germany over the weekend, in all its svelte gadget glory. Our friend Johannes went hands-on with the tablet in Frankfurt, and liked what he saw. The version he saw was noticeably thinner than the prototype 8.9-incher that we got to smudge up in March (it’s even slimmer than the iPad 2), and if this Europe appearance is any indication, Sammy may be on track to launch these sometime this summer, as promised.
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Twitter acquires TweetDeck for up to $50 million
It’s been a year since Twitter made its first move into having official applications across many platforms for its service. It first acquired Atebits, a company which created the widely popular Tweetie app for iPhone and for Mac. It seems lightning does strike twice; TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter has…
BlackBerry Messenger on PlayBook hands-on (video)
We just spent some time with Ryan Bidan, senior product manager for the PlayBook, who gave us a hands-on demo of BlackBerry Messenger on RIM’s little tablet. It’s not a native app — it requires the PlayBook to be paired with a BlackBerry smartphone via BlackBerry Bridge. The functionality is being pushed out “tonight” with a Bridge update on the handset side, and an OS update on the tablet side. So if you and your PlayBook have been longing to get your BBM on, today’s your lucky day — assuming of course that you have a BlackBerry phone on another network than AT&T. Expect a standalone app sometime in the future, but in the meantime hit our video above for the full demo.
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Scientists could be months away from discovering antigravity
Scientists at CERN have announced that they’ve been able to trap 309 atoms of antihydrogen for over 15 minutes. This is long enough that soon, they’ll be able to figure out whether antimatter obeys the law of gravity, or whether it’s repelled by normal matter and falls “up” instead. It would be antigravity, for real.
AMD debuts first embedded GPU with support for OpenCL and six displays
Disappointed by the lack of support for multiple displays and OpenCL in embedded GPUs these days? Then AMD may have just made your day. It’s just debuted its new “desktop level” Radeon E6760 discrete GPU, which packs both OpenCL support and Eyefinity-enhanced support for no less than six independent displays. AMD also notes that the GPU can be paired with its upcoming Llano APU for some additional graphics and parallel computing power and, while it might not wind up in many consumer devices, the company says it’s ideal for everything from casino games to medical imaging. Head on past the break for the complete press release.
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Fringe has never been darker or more dystopian than in this trailer for Friday’s season finale [Video]
Just how bad does it get in Friday’s all-new Fringe season finale? Just check out this intense two-minute trailer and see for yourself. Two very messed-up Walter Bishops and an apocalyptic world await… [Thanks Matthew!] More »
BlackBerry Messenger now has 43 million active users
Back in February RIM announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) has 35 million worldwide subscribers and 2 thousand new users were being added every hour. Today at BlackBerry World 2011 RIM shouted out a bigger number with 43 million active users with 2 million new users per month. RIM also showed that BBM saw a 110% […]
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Watch a horrifying car ad that shows our robot-dominated future [Video]
When robots control our entire existence, life will be bleak and joyless, according to this recent Dodge ad, crafted by Carl Erik Rinsch, director of the hot science fiction short The Gift and the upcoming 47 Ronin. More »
3D printer has potential to make organs for transplant
In the near future, patients who need a kidney or heart transplant may be able to get a new organ designed and manufactured just for them.
Carriers crack down on Android tethering apps, rain on our mobile hotspot parade
Well everybody, it looks like the free ride is over: carriers in the US have started to seriously crack down on Android tethering apps. Head on over to the Android Market site and try to install an app that turns your smartphone into a WiFi hotspot — there's a pretty good chance you'll be told, "this item is not available on your carrier." We checked out a number of different tethering options and they were all blocked by T-Mobile and AT&T, which isn’t entirely new. Verizon has also joined the party and, while it missed at least one that we spotted, we’re sure they’ll all be gone in short order. Only Sprint has decided against banning such apps… for now. It looks like you might have to finally cough up for that tethering plan you’ve been desperately trying to avoid.
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MSI trots out 20-inch Wind Top AE2070 with USB 3.0, Wind Touch 4 UI
MSI sure is keeping itself busy with all-in-ones these days. The inexpensive Wind Top AE2050 arrived stateside a month ago, and now the company is back with the Wind Top AE2070, a more tricked-out 20-incher. This iteration also has a 1600 x 900 display, but steps up to USB 3.0 and can be upgraded to a 3.1GHz Core i3 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GT540M graphics. Other specs include a 500GB 7,200RPM hard drive, two three-watt speakers, a DVD burner, and a 6-in-1 memory card reader. Software-wise, it runs Windows 7 along with the latest version of MSI’s Wind Touch UI, which includes Facebook and Twitter buttons in the browser, a dedicated window for viewing photos and video, sticky notes, and weather and time widgets for the desktop. No word yet on pricing or availability, though we assume it’ll be more wallet-friendly than this.
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