Sony’s bold new VAIO C Series will turn-heads thanks to the superfluous colors

Sony’s bold new VAIO C Series will turn-heads thanks to the superfluous colors it can come in but using the machine is pretty bleh, concludes Trusted Review (TR). The reviewers at TRobtained a UK-edition 14-inch Intel Sandy Bridge Sony VAIO C for testing and the laptop really doesn’t stand-out in any category for performance.

The main troubles for a laptop usually lie in battery life testing, who the heck wants a laptop that has terrible battery life? The VAIO C I’m sad to report appears to suffer from that common ailment. In their testing TR found that the 6-cell battery that comes standard for the VAIO C lasts only 3 hours and 1 minute with the screen brightness lowered to 40 percent and Wi-Fi turned off. Those results are terrible, because once you have Wi-Fi turned on, to you know browse the world-wide web or access shared network files, that 3 hours will be diminished greatly. Having Wi-Fi turned is very taxing on notebooks.
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After the battery issue the low processor and graphics performance are also common problems for laptops. With the Sony VAIO C the folks at TR found performance for both CPU processing and GPU processing to be below standard. The laptop they tested featured Intel’s 2.3-2.9 GHz Core i5-2410M dual-core processor and a dedicated AMD Radeon HD 6470M GPU with 512MB of video memory.
Considering the Sony VAIO C starts at $749.99 (which can easily shoot past $900 if you want the same CPU and a AMD GPU with your system) it doesn’t look to be that good of a buy. The only real reason TR could find for buying one of the new 2011 Sony VAIO C Series laptops is, “If you’re a fan of neon colour choices, transparent overlays and rubber keyboard covers”.


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The Reason for Hackers Attacking Sony

Remember that boy from your school who got bullied by the other boys because he was short, wore glasses and had good grades?

Well, one could easily draw a parallel between that boy and Sony because some angry hackers are constantly breaking the company’s servers and steal confidential data from Sony’s data bases. But what have the Japanese done to upset the cyber bullyboys that much?

Sony is well-known for the aggressive techniques it uses to protect its copyrights and perhaps this is one of the reasons that have made hackers constantly attack its servers.

Gene Spafford, an IT security specialist from the Purdue University explained that Sony is to blame for these cyber attack waves, because of the decisions the company has taken. For example, Sony has denied access to its network for users who have modified their PlayStation game console, installed rootkit programs to control CD copy options and filed a trial against hackers George Hotz and Jammie Thomas – all these actions have brought Sony in the hackers’ crosshairs.

Hotz is known for developing iPhone unlock tools but has managed to get on Sony’s nerves after he created a blog in which he described the daily progress he made in cracking PlayStation 3, a system which was thought to be secure. Thomas was caught in the middle of a piracy scandal and was accused by the music industry of having uploaded tracks on Kazaa, a site designed for file sharing.

Sony has created a hallo of a greedy, soulless company around it and it should not be surprising it has become a favorite target for hackers, Gene Spafford said.

One team of hackers have managed to access the accounts of millions of PlayStation Network users. As soon as the news had spreaded that Sony is unable to defend itself against cyber attacks, the cyber-sharks smelled blood in the tech ocean and set out for attack.

Sony has been hit no less than 5 times this year:

17 April – Hackers cracked the PlayStation network and accessed personal information of over 77 million users. Sony admitted on May 2nd that over 12.000 credit card numbers had been stolen during the attack.

19-20 may – Hackers stole virtual credits worth of over $1,200 from So-Net, one of Sony’s branches. Sony discovered a phishing site of its Thailand website.

23 may – Hackers cracked Sony’s BMG server from Greece and stole user-related information.

24 may – Sony admitted that hackers had stolen more than 2,000 music compilations from its Canadian website.

2 June – LulzSecurity attacked sonypictures.com gaining access to uncrypted passwords, as well as names, addresses and birthdates of Sony customers.

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Sony on Twitter saying it would embarrass the company

Sony Pictures tonight confirmed that some of its Web sites were breached yesterday.
In a joint statement, Sony Pictures Chairman and CEO Michael Lynton and Co-chairman Amy Pascal said the company has contacted the FBI in an attempt to find out who was behind the cyberattack.
Yesterday a group of hackers calling themselves Lulzsec brashly taunted Sony on Twitter saying it would "embarrass" the company by posting data stolen from the company's servers. Several hours later the group posted online 150,000 people's passwords, names, email addresses, addresses and phone numbers from SonyPictures.com and Sony BMG's Web sites in Belgium and the Netherlands. The group claims there was little complexity involved in overcoming the servers' security.
"The cybercrime wave that has affected Sony companies and a number of government agencies, businesses and individuals in recent months has hit Sony Pictures as well," the Sony statement reads.
In addition to working with federal authorities, Sony Pictures has also hired its own "experts" to conduct a forensic investigation into the breach, according to Lynton and Pascal.
"We deeply regret and apologize for any inconvenience caused to consumers by this cybercrime," they wrote.
Executives from Sony and Epsilon, speaking Thursday before a House Commerce Manufacturing and Trade subcommittee, endorsed the idea of a federal law regulating data breaches.
In an opening statement, Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.), who chairs the subcommittee, said that while she did not entirely approve of the way the companies had handled data breaches affecting their networks, she wanted to move forward and outline the best way to protect online consumers.
Jeanette Fitzgerald, the general counsel for Epsilon, endorsed national legislation and said that the patchwork of state laws regulating data breaches made it difficult for companies to respond to attacks. Epsilon, a marketing company, was hit with a cyberattack in late March that leaked the e-mail addresses and names of millions of consumers.
A single law, she said, “would make it much easier and less costly for business to ensure any applicable notification requirements are met.”
Sony’s Tim Schaaf, president of Sony Network Entertainment International, said the company supports standard legislation that would require companies to provide timely, accurate information on breaches, provide customers with resources to combat the effects of an attack.


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Schaaf was also called upon to defend some of Sony’s practices following its network intrustion.
Bono Mack repeated her criticism of the way Sony informed its users of a breach that revealed the personal and financial information of 77 million customers — through its blog.
“Sony put the burden on consumers to search for information instead of providing it to them directly,” she said, adding that such a practice is unacceptable.
Schaaf said that the company’s blog is very popular and a useful way for the company to communicate with its customers quickly and efficiently. He added that Sony later e-mailed customers affected by the attack.
He also defended Sony’s decision to delay informing customers of the breach until the company fully understood the implications of the attack. The company’s servers were breached on April 19 and Sony first notified customers that sensitive data was taken on the 26th.
Bono Mack said she will introduce legislation that will require companies to establish and maintain security policies, give special protection to sensitive information such as credit cards and promptly notify consumers when data has been breached.

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Sony continues to inch toward a full two weeks of lost service for PlayStation Network

As Sony continues to inch toward a full two weeks of lost service for PlayStation Network and Qrirocity customers, there is more and more pressure on the company to address the growing numbers of questions being lobbed in its direction. The first steps were taken earlier this week toward addressing the demands of the 77 million users who have had their personal data stolen and been left without service since last Wednesday, in the form of a Sony-penned Q&A. Today brings part two of that Q&A, presumably with more to come given Dell xps m1330 battery,Dell inspiron 1300 battery that today’s answers serve to raise additional questions.

The key points discussed in Patrick Seybold’s PlayStation Blog post relate to how each user’s game & community data has been affected by the outage (other than being currently inaccessible, it hasn’t) and what the company’s plans are moving forward, after service is restored. This second point is obviously much more rooted in the realm of the theoretical at this point, as there’s no restored service to speak of yet, and the length of time between now and when that happens will probably play a role in any decisions.

PlayStation Network is home to a number of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, such as the recently released DC Universe Online. Since these types of games involve subscriptions that aren’t associated with or paid to PlayStation Network, Seybold defers to a statement from Sony Online Entertainment:

“We apologize for any inconvenience players may have experienced as a result of the recent service interruption. As a global leader in online gaming, SOE is committed to delivering stable and entertaining games for players of all ages. To thank players for their patience, we will be hosting special events across our game portfolio. We are also working Hp pavilion dv6000 battery,Hp dv8000 batteries on a ‘make good’ plan for players of the PS3 versions of DC Universe Online and Free Realms. Details will be available soon on the individual game websites and forums.”

As for the PlayStation Network, the basic service allowing gamers to connect and play together online is completely free, in contrast to Microsoft‘s subscription-based Xbox Live. PS3 owners can subscribe to the PS Plus program for added benefits, and those people are simply out of luck right now. There’s also an argument that the PS3′s “free online play” offering is a selling point that motivates consumers to choose the console over the Xbox 360. Then there’s Qrirocity, which is entirely subscription-based.

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Sony has announced its first foray into the popular tablet PC market

The Japanese electronics maker Sony has announced its first foray into the popular tablet PC market, unveiling two new devices.

Sony has shown off a pair of tablets that will launch later this year. The S1 is little more than yet another Honeycomb iPad Tablet PC in a Sony-designed box, with a 9.4-inch widescreen display and a wedge-shaped case.

Way more interesting is the S2, a clamshell tablet with two 5.5-inch screens. Each section has a rounded back, making it look like a squashed burrito when closed. When open, you can use it as a tablet with a black stripe down the middle, or each screen can display different content, similar to the dual-screen Nintendo DS consoles.

And the gaming analogy is apt. The tablets will work with the PlayStation Suite platform, which is Sony’s way of putting PS software onto various devices. We got our first glimpse of it on the PlayStation phoneat the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year. For more on the gaming aspects of the tablets, head over to our sister site Game|Life where Chris Kohler takes a look.

Both tablets will come with Wi-Fi and optionally 3G or 4G, and run Honeycomb. And both tablets will also pack infrared lamps to control Sony Bravia devices. They’ll also beam music and video to compatible devices via the DLNA wireless protocol, which is similar in concept to Apple’s AirPlay.

All in all, these look like pretty neat devices, especially if you are already heavily invested in Sony gear. Price and availability are both as yet unannounced, but if you pencil in “expensive” and “later this year” then you won’t go far wrong.

Lastly, a weird quote lifted from Sony’s press release. Talking about the OS, Google’s Android boss Andy Ruben apparently said the following: “Android 3.0 is a new version of the Android platform with a new holographic user interface that is designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets(Dell latitude d820 battery,Dell latitude d830 battery).” Holographic?

Niche segments

Analysts say that as the tablet PC market evolves over the next few years and the number of players grow, companies will have to find their niche.

"There will be specific segments that companies will cater to," said Mr Menon.

"Research in Motion (RIM) is big player in enterprise segment, Apple has captured the consumer market and is now targeting the enterprise sector," he added.

Mr Menon said that this is where Sony has a unique advantage.

Its gadgets like PlayStation already allow users in different parts of the world to interact and play games with other.

He said the electronics maker has a long standing partnership with Ericsson and together they could play a big role in the coming years.

"We estimate that by the year 2020 we will see 80bn gadgets connected to each other worldwide," he said.

"Given the expertise Sony has in consumer market and that of Ericsson in network Touch Screen Monitor operations, they could have a big impact in connecting the tablet segment," he added.

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