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1. Sony's hack woes have deepened--now its Canadian version of the eShop has been hacked by a self-professed grey hat Lebanese hacker, and 2,000 customer records have been acquired (evidence for around 1,000 posted online).

1. Apple 's cloud music service (possibly to be called iCloud) is looking more like a done deal--"multiple" sources are saying Apple's just signed a deal with EMI and is close to signing Sony and Universal too.

Very early this morning, Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station for the final time, marking another milestone at the end of the Shuttle program. 1. Long noted for its absence, Intel is now promising to have its silicon inside smartphones in early 2012, five years after the iPhone reinvented the genre and took ARM chips to new levels as the de facto standard CPU

Rumor has it that Apple may have a big product launch ready for the 10th anniversary of its stores--and it could be NFC-enabled tech. It'd be just like Apple to try to revolutionize the shopping experience for everyone

Google has shaken up the computing world with its rentable Chromebooks using its own Chrome OS.

It's been ten years since Douglas Adams, science fiction author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, died suddenly and Twitter is alive with comments and references to the man and his works. Google has chosen a different theme for today's Doodle , though: The would-be 117th birthday of Martha Graham, the U.S

When I worked at Microsoft in the late 1990s, Alex St.

Microsoft is bringing Skype--the firm that basically kicked off the home VoIP revolution--into its ever-expanding universe. Will it be worth the huge price tag? Microsoft 's purchase of Skype for a reported $8.5 billion is as good as done

1. After the repeated and damaging hack attacks on its network, Sony has yet to bring key parts of its online systems back up. Now it looks like the PlayStation Network and Qriocity service will remain off for a longer interlude --maybe as much as six weeks in total, though Sony itself is uncertain.

If you live in an apartment in a city, you most likely have a fire escape attached to your building.

1. Just as Sony confirms it's about to put parts of the PSN back online finally, a hacker group has said it's poised to launch a third wave of digital assault on Sony's online presence as punishment for its weak security. Sony's making moves to offer free ID and hack protection to US users affected by the previous breaches, but a third wave of attacks would be very bad news for Sony--which has already spent plenty of money fixing the earlier ones.

Microsoft is slinging some mud to stick up for its Office franchise. Tom Rizzo, senior director of Microsoft Online Services, wrote in a blog post that Google apps come with an expensive hidden tax , like the bulk of an iceberg hidden beneath a serene ocean surface, and Windows netbooks are better than MacBook Airs. He even posted this handy, pithy infographic.

A new report illuminates how Apple, Google, RIM, and Nokia will battle for the top spot in this lucrative market. The revenues from the major app stores will nearly double this year, reaching $3.8 billion in revenue in 2011, according to the market research firm iSuppli . Apple holds the lion's share of this market, at about three-quarters of the whole

For years, PCs were often referred to as Wintel machines. The "tel" coming from Intel's role as Windows's preferred chipmaker-in-chief

1. It just got about as official as it's likely to get: Agreeing with information obtained by Fast Company from inside Apple , Reuters has just confirmed , from "three people with direct knowledge" of Apple's supply chain, that the new iPhone 5 won't go into mass production until July/August. Meaning it'll ship sometime in September--much later than usual.