Sony's Security Breach Shows Perils of Secrecy
After PlayStation Network was hacked into, the company should have been quicker to share information with users, experts say.The damage done by the attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network last month—an...
View ArticleSony Sets Its Sights on Augmented Reality
The future of mobile gaming will merge the virtual and real worlds.Sony has demonstrated a new augmented reality system called Smart AR that can be built into the company’s future gaming devices.
View ArticleBreached Companies Say They Did All They Could
Executives for Sony and Epsilon, an e-mail marketing company, insist that they had tight security before they lost consumer data.Executives who contended with massive data breaches at two...
View Article3-D Surveillance
These digital binoculars offer not only a 20x optical zoom but the ability to capture images in 3-D high-definition video. Essentially composed of two camcorders bundled together, the binoculars can...
View ArticleA Feel for the Game
Touch-based games have become wildly popular on smart phones, but they pose a dilemma: either fingers obscure some of the on-screen action or valuable screen real estate must be devoted to control...
View ArticleNovel Mobile Display Tech Could End Up on Your Car Dashboard
Diginfo reports on a novel type of mobile display, presented by Japan Display. Japan Display actually showed off three prototypes, which bring together mobile display tech from Sony, Toshiba, and...
View ArticleQuantum Dots Get Commercial Debut in More Colorful Sony TVs
Technology from QD Vision replaces the conventional backlight in LCDs, allowing for purer colors.Sony is using nanoscale particles called quantum dots to significantly improve the color of some of its...
View ArticlePebble Sets Sights on Fitness Trackers with New App-Making Tools
Pebble unveils developer tools that allow for motion- and gesture-tracking apps for its smart watch.Smart watch maker Pebble unveiled updates on Wednesday to the software tools that developers can use...
View ArticleSony Joins Virtual Reality Race with New Headset for PlayStation
Inspired by Oculus Rift, Sony is adding virtual reality to the PlayStation 4.Sony unveiled its long-rumored virtual reality headset on Tuesday at the 2014 Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco....
View ArticleA Startup’s Plans for a New Social Reality
AltspaceVR is building virtual hangouts that it hopes you’ll use to watch a movie with friends or play a game of life-size chess.We know what social networks are like on the Web and in apps, but what...
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