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Sony has made a number of statements to its customers around the world regarding the situation of the current Playstation Network outage, but many have found them to be non-answers. A letter released yesterday to Japanese clients is a little more forthcoming, however.

Hackers have dealt a serious blow to Sony's strategy to create an ecosystem of online content around its devices by bringing down its online game system PlayStation Network and Qriocity services.

Sony Japan told customers today that it is moving closer to restoring services to its beleaguered Playstation Network which has been suffering from an outage for nearly a month.

Sony promises to do everything in its power to support its publishers.

NDP Group report states that Sony Computer Entertainment America recorded a 13 percent increase in hardware sales for the month of April.

Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) online gamers could not withstand three weeks of downtime and has decided to give Microsoft Xbox 360 a try.

Jokes on dreaded (and deceased) terrorist Osama bin Laden have flooded the Internet ever since U.S. President Barack Obama announced that U.S. special ops forces stormed his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed him. Of the several hundreds of jokes on the Al Qaeda leader, these 20 jokes take the cake.

The Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) outage has angered and frustrated Sony fans into rushing to retail stores and trading in their PlayStation3 (PS3) consoles for rival Microsoft Xbox 360 systems. Reports from retail stores indicated that more customers have been trading in their entire PlayStation3 set including both console and games for the Xbox 360, mostly for Call of Duty online gamers.

Sony Japan told customers today that it is moving closer to restoring services to its beleaguered Playstation Network which has been suffering from an outage for nearly a month.

A report from a British based gaming site says with the PSN outage, more people are trading in their PS3s.

The new HP Veer 4G and Samsung Infuse 4G seems to be lying in two corners, one being the smallest yet a cute smartphone while the other seems to define the width of a smartphone. Both these smartphones differ from the standard size offered in the market today.

What began as a nuisance is turning into a full-blown criminal investigation as the FBI looks into the hacker group allegedly responsible that may have breached Sony's Playstation network.

Sony's official PlayStaion website became inaccessible in Japan on Wednesday while the site was partially inaccessible in select regions in the U.S., triggering panic that another hacker attack had crippled the gaming giant again.

Sony's Playstation website in Japan went offline on Wednesday, prompting questions as to whether the company again succumbed to hackers that have been targeting the company for weeks.

Check out a summary of quotes that have been made during the Sony hacking, PlayStation network ordeal.

Sony has repeated its apology for shutting down of PlayStation Network after it got hacked and hackers stole user information possibly including names, emails and credit card numbers 3 weeks ago. Meanwhile, PSP and PlayStation3 users still cannot use PlayStation Network.

Xbox stands to gain little in the wake of the Sony PlayStation Network outage according to industry experts.

Facebook users' personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, according to one security firm, marking the latest in a growing trend of compromised personal data.

Crisis management experts say Sony has failed to pacify its users with an acceptable response to the PSN outage.

A gamut of releases at Google I/O conference shows that Google is attempting on one hand to plug existing loopholes in the Android platform, is adding new cloud-services to pre-empt Apple and is outlining its future vision in that it wants Android to become a multi-device OS.

With their PlayStation Network service out for nearly three weeks, gamers are starting to get angry.