December 8, 2014

Sony's PlayStation hacked


Lizard Squad attacks
Meanwhile, the outage on the PlayStation network follows one on Microsoft Xbox network, which was down for at least a day last week.
Lizard Squad also claimed it was behind the attack.
The Xbox network was hit with a DDOS, or a distributed denial of service attack, which overloaded the system, stopping users from getting online.
The hacker group had then said that its Xbox attack was just "a small dose" of what was to come over the Christmas season.
Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for attacks that have taken high-profile targets like EA games and Destiny offline in the past.
Known as Lizard Patrol on Twitter, the anonymous collective has a Russian-based website.

December 6, 2014

Amazon shares fall after it reports widening losses

Amazon has reported a third-quarter loss of $437m (£273m) - up significantly from the $41m loss it reported for the same period last year.

Amazon Web Service's bid to power the internet


The seemingly endless - yet still ever growing - range of products you can lay your hands on via Amazon has seen the internet company dubbed the "everything store".

Yet it's a separate wing of the company, offering something altogether more intangible, that could prove more important to both its long-term future and yours.

Microsoft Azure faults knock websites offline


Faults with Microsoft's cloud computing platform have knocked many third-party sites offline, as well as disrupting the US firm's own products.

Apple's $1bn anti-competition trial might collapse


 A court case against Apple, which could see the company facing damages of $1bn, might collapse.

Lawyers for Apple have raised a last-minute challenge saying new evidence suggested that the two women named as plaintiffs may not have purchased iPod models covered by the lawsuit.

December 4, 2014

Apple: Evidence by late Steve Jobs to be used in music trial

Apple is heading to court to defend itself against allegations that it abused its dominant position in the digital music player market.

Apple 'deleted' rivals' music from iPods, court hears


Apple has been accused by lawyers in a court case of "deleting" songs from rival services from some iPods during the past decade.

Google is Planing to Lunch Child-friendly Products

 Google is developing child-friendly versions of its search site, Chrome browser and video-sharing service YouTube, according to a US report.
Pavni Diwanji, Google's vice-president of engineering who is heading the project, revealed the plans in an interview with USA Today.

Driverless cars set to be tested in four English citiesThe


four English locations picked to test driverless cars have been named.Greenwich, in south-east London, and Bristol will each host a project of their own, while Coventry and Milton Keynes will share a third.

Gangnam Style music video 'broke' YouTube view limit

The music video for South Korean singer Psy's Gangnam Style exceeded YouTube's view limit, prompting the site to upgrade its counter.

Google and Amazon face tax change


A crackdown on tax cuts for banks and duty evasion by multinational firms will raise about £5bn in excess of five years, Chancellor George Osborne has said.

December 3, 2014

Microsoft is doing a fine job of burying Windows XP, but still has a long way to go toward getting people onto the latest version of its operating system.


Microsoft is doing a fine job of burying Windows XP, but still has a long way to go toward getting people onto the latest version of its operating system.

How to fix msvcr100.dll is missing error


Step 1: Head to the
DLL-Files site and - in the right-hand section - click the Download Zip File catch. This is a trusted website, yet you can likewise discover the

December 1, 2014

Microsoft New Lumia phone with a huge camera bump appears in leaked photos


Microsoft seems to have been creating another Lumia gadget with a cam knock that is greater or equivalent in size to the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020.

T-Mobile Will Be More Transparent About Data Speeds


T-Mobile and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proclaimed an assention this week by which the remote transporter will all the more straightforwardly convey precise data about clients'