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Consumer electronics juggernaut Sony is apparently stepping up to the plate to tackle Apple’s iPhone (and soon iPad) pantheon with a PlayStation Portable Phone, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.
If you haven’t been following the vicissitudes of the mobile rumor mill for as long as we have, you might want to know that a [...]

We had a very hotly contested matchup this week in our long-running Faceoff series, with Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE going up against Sony’s PlayStation Network for favorite online console gaming service. After an astounding 35,055 votes we’re ready to declare the winner…
… and Xbox LIVE takes the win! They’ll obviously get an achievement rather than [...]

BuzzAware is a new GoogleBuzz-focused app directory that is focused on keeping all Buzz related add-ons, apps and plugins in one place.
Google Buzz launched a few weeks ago, and even without a completed API, somef developers are still building their own tools and apps to take advantage of buzz and make it easy [...]

The sharing service ShareThis is familiar to lots of Internet users — thanks to its popular plugin and sharing buttons. Now the service is introducing ShareThis Stream, which adds a real-time and social element to what is being shared by your friends and other ShareThis users all over the web. The ShareThis team [...]

Update: Sony PlayStation Network has been restored.
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It may be some time until Sony PlayStation 3 owners can resume their usual online activities, according to a new blog post from Sony revealing it could take 24 hours to fix the glitch, which hit numerous users yesterday.
Sony has gone so far as to advise PS3 owners [...]

It’s time once again to pit two contestants against each other in an all-out battle for the hearts and minds of Mashable readers. In this week’s Web Faceoff, we wanted to get a sense of which online console gaming service Mashable readers prefer: Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE or Sony’s PlayStation Network?
Last week we saw HTML5 [...]

Sony Computer Entertainment America is making good on its promise to expand original content offerings on its PlayStation Network distribution service. They’ll be bringing an original reality television series, The Tester, to PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles via the PSN as a free downloadable series starting February 18.
We’re starting to see a number of [...]

Although it’s not yet live to everyone, a new Xbox LIVE Dashboard Update that adds social networking integrations with Facebook, Twitter and last.fm is currently in preview mode to beta testers and will go live to the public in short order. Perhaps trying to play catchup with Microsoft, Sony apparently has plans to add its [...]

Apple has both quietly and not-so-quietly been going about the business of tackling the portable gaming market. Perhaps presaged all the way back to the original iPod’s hidden easter egg game of Brick, the iconic and primarily music-playing device has acknowledged the powerful role of fun on a portable device.
Of course, with the [...]