For many users, the initial reaction to the Sony Playstation Network (PSN) and Qriocity services going ‘offline’ on April 20th was one of disappointment and irritation. Many were optimistic that the service would be resumed quickly though, presuming maintenance or a small glitch were to blame for the downtime.

The optimism ended officially on the 23rd of April however, when it became apparent that the reason for the outage on the PSN was a lot more serious than a simple glitch, as Sony themselves declared on their own blog – the reason that the PSN was offline was because there had been an “external intrusion” to their systems.

Three new Cybershot models of digital camera are due to arrive in stores soon, Sony have announced.

The DSC-W520, the DSC-HX100V and the DSC- HX9V will be released in March and April of this year, with the W520 being released in the March and the other two models in April.

Specifications on the W520 include 14.1 megapixel CCD sensor, 5x optical zoom (with 25mm wide angle lens), 2.7″ LCD screen. The two HX cameras both have 16.2 megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensors which combined with the Intelligent Sweep Panorama HR mode that they both will be installed with, will give a humongous 10480×4096 resolution shot. The HX100V is the most powerful camera of the new releases with it’s Carl Zeiss Vario Sonnar T lens which offers a 30x optical zoom. The Sony G lens on the HX9V allows for a 16x optical zoom.

It’s been a long time coming for many but, at the PlayStation Meeting 2011 in Japan, Sony Computer Entertainment have at last announced news and information on their upcoming device codenamed the NGP, thus confirming the existance of a successor to their handheld gaming device, the PSP (PlayStation Portable).

Technical specifications for the NGP are as follows:

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2011 was a great event where Sony had a chance to preview to the public its products for this year. One product that any blogger would surely like to have is the latest 3D Bloggie HD Camera MHS-FS3. This pocket size camcorder is considered as the world’s first HD 3D camera.

Sony introduced to us at the CES 2011 a lot of promising products that would be coming from them this year. One of this is the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX9.  This digital camera is capable of capturing images in 3D or 2D if you prefer. To view the 3D photos you have captured you would still have to output them to a compatible 3D display and use 3D glasses.

The camera is small and compact in size which makes you wonder how Sony was able to come up with a powerful device.  Its camera lens is capable of resolutions of 16.2 MP with a matching 5x optical zoom.