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It isn’t all that long since ‘hackers’ and certian parts of the PlayStation 3 community were rejoicing at the ability of devices such as PSFreedom, PSGroove, PSJailbreak to allow homebrew games from an external hard drive. Well, Sony have stepped in to dampen the spirits of those hoping for a PS3 that could eventually play their ‘back ups’ or pirated copies of games by releasing a firmware update for the PlayStation 3 that stops such devices in their tracks.
Exophase has confirmed that “all variants of the USB-hub emulating exploit (PSFreedom, PSGroove, PSJailbreak) are no longer functional”.
Sony themselves aren’t saying much except to confirm on their official blog that firmware update 3.42 “includes additional security features”. Time will tell if this update will really be enough to stop piracy on the PS3, hackers don’t give up that easily.
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As promised, Sony have released the 3.40 firmware update for the PlayStation 3. As well as adding support for the recently released PSN+ service, the update adds a Photo Gallery and a Video Editor and Uploader. The Photo Gallery allows you to browse photos found on Facebook or Picasa Web Albums. You can then share the photos with friends on the PlayStation Network. While the Video Editor, can be found through the XMB. You can edit your videos and save them. You also have the ability to upload the videos so other users can download them. There’s also a “five star rating” for videos, so you know which videos others have found most enjoyable. So far, there also hasn’t been any issues raised with the latest firmware.
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Whilst talking about the PlayStation Plus (PSN+) service, Sony added to the end of their press release that:
“PlayStation users can purchase PlayStation Plus membership through PlayStation Store on PS3 only. Users need to install PS3 system software version 3.40, which will be released on June 22nd, to enjoy PlayStation Plus,” revealed the press release.”
So there is the confirmation that firmware version 3.40 will be available to download to PS3’s in the next few days to be ready to join the PSN+ revolution which itself launches on the 29th of June.
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Sony Ericsson have rolled out another firmware update for the Sony Ericsson Satio, which should be available for all handsets. I’ve tested the update on my Vodafone branded handset and the update has been detected and installed. While I haven’t had time to test it fully yet, others have been saying the phone is faster with the update and it fixes the homescreen theme problem, where no shortcuts are being displayed, only the Sony Ericsson home screen theme displays correctly. Sony Ericsson have also rolled out an update for the Aino, which has also been experiencing issues, mostly with the touch screen. While no problems have been reported with the Yari, an update is also to come for the handset. It’s also noted on the Sony Ericsson Update page, that the handset does not need to be backed up, as the update does not affect handset data, but it is of course recommended to do so if possible anyway.
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Update, the update has not fixed the homescreen theme problem. Other fixes, or unfixed bugs will be reported.
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