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Sony has just revealed the array of titles that will be released for the PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection at the end of May and beginning of June.
The company has confirmed that PS3 users can get Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus HD, or Demon's Souls, while PS Vita owners rec... |
15 May 2013
07:22 GMT |
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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveals that police have arrested several individuals believed to be part of an organized crime ring that’s responsible for defrauding pension holders after approaching them via cold calls and text messages.
The suspects have been arrested in Cheshir... |
10 May 2013
10:22 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that, for the month of June, PlayStation Plus members in PAL regions like Europe, Australia, New Zealand, or the Middle East, will be able to download for free titles like Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, or Demon's Souls.
PlayStation Plus members receive many great advantages for their monthly s... |
9 May 2013
02:29 GMT |
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The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a new initiative which focuses on rogue private investigators that solve their cases by illegally obtaining or accessing personal data, thus violating section 55 of the Data Protection Act. The ICO is determined to gather as much i... |
29 April 2013
10:19 GMT |
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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a monetary penalty of £90,000 ($136,000 / 105,000 EUR) to Glasgow-based DM Design after receiving almost 2,000 complaints from unhappy consumers who had got unwanted marketing calls.
According to the ICO, the company consistently failed to check i... |
20 March 2013
15:51 GMT |
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A study performed by YouGov for the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) shows that while 47% of adults use their personal mobile devices for work activities, less than 30% of them are provided with guidance on how to utilize them without putting sensitive information at risk.
As such, the ICO has publis... |
7 March 2013
10:51 GMT |
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Back in October 2012, a Southern District of California judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against Sony as a result of the PlayStation Network hack. However, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a considerable fine, accusing the company of failing to keep customer informat... |
24 January 2013
07:13 GMT |
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Fines totaling over £300 000 ($486,000 / 369,000 EUR) have been given out by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office to four local councils responsible for losing personal data.
As such, the London Borough of Lewisham must pay £70,000 ($113,000 / 86,000 EUR) for leaving social work papers ... |
17 December 2012
10:58 GMT |
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Barclays employee Lara Davies, of Barrowash, Derby, has been ordered by the Derby Crown Court to pay a total of £1925 ($3,087, 2,400 EUR) – representing a fine, victim surcharge and prosecution costs – after she illegally accessed the bank statements of her partner’s ex-wife.
The unauthorized... |
7 December 2012
08:10 GMT |
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The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a data protection code of practice for organizations that want to anonymize user data.
The agency highlights the fact that anonymization is very important because it brings many benefits. Anonymized data allows organizations to re... |
26 November 2012
07:10 GMT |
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Personal banking, insurance and pensions products provider Prudential has been fined with £50,000 ($79,000 or 62,000 EUR) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after it mixed up the accounts of two customers. The accounts in question were mistakenly merged back in 2007 because the customers s... |
6 November 2012
09:53 GMT |
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed a Civil Monetary Penalty of £150,000 ($241,000 or 184,000 EUR) to the Greater Manchester Police, after the agency failed to take appropriate measures to protect personal data.
The law enforcement agency exposed the details of over 1,000 individuals ... |
17 October 2012
03:55 GMT |
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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wants to show that illegal marketers shouldn’t believe that they can get away with it after spamming users. The agency has notified a couple of companies and gave them 28 days to respond before monetary fines totaling over £250,000 ($400,000 or 313,000 ... |
1 October 2012
08:07 GMT |
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A large number of businesses have started migrating their systems to the cloud to benefit from greater computing power and the other advantages it offers. However, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) warns firms that they’re still responsible for safekeeping their customers’ details, even... |
27 September 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Back in July, security expert Troy Hunt highlighted many of the potentially dangerous security practices implemented by Tesco on its tesco.com website. His findings haven’t fallen on death ears, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) promising to look into the security measures implemented... |
20 August 2012
08:32 GMT |
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Google just can't seem to get over the whole Street View scandal. Well, it would get over it in a second if everyone else would let it. But just as the FCC concluded its investigation, others popped up again worldwide. The most worrying, for Google, seems to be the one in the UK.
The Information Commissioner�... |
6 July 2012
13:41 GMT |
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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has released its 2011/12 annual report and the figures show that in the past year the organization has issued a lot of monetary penalties to companies that failed to protect their customers’ and employees’ personal information.
A perfect example of a firm th... |
5 July 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Google's Street View scandal seems to be picking up steam again after a brief period when it looked like it was finally over for the company.
The FCC ended its investigation into the matter and did not find anything illegal in Google's behavior though it did fine the company for obstructing the investigat... |
13 June 2012
05:41 GMT |
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A group of hacktivists apparently affiliated with Anonymous, called the ATeam, has launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on the sites owned by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, and Theresa May, member of parliament for Maidenhead.
TechWeek Eu... |
15 May 2012
08:47 GMT |
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A study made by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that many individuals from the UK failed to ensure that all their sensitive data was properly erased from storage devices before selling them or giving them away. This allows fraudsters to commit crimes more easily.
The organization is urging co... |
25 April 2012
09:49 GMT |
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveals that because of a security flaw on its website, Toshiba exposed the personal details of 20 individuals that signed up to participate in a competition.
In September 2011, the ICO was notified that the names, addresses, dates of birth and contact information o... |
17 April 2012
09:17 GMT |
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What we know: The Last Guardian is a third-person title that combines action sequences with puzzles and is developed by the same team that has worked on Shadow of the Colossus and Ico. The game will allow players to control a young boy, which seems to be the central archetype for Team Ico, and will watch him as he ... |
7 February 2012
18:31 GMT |
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A number of 1,136 individuals who were victims of car thieves or pickpockets received a wrongly configured email as part of a survey that revealed the e-mail addresses of all the other recipients.
The Guardian reports that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been informed on the error, Scotland Yar... |
2 February 2012
10:26 GMT |
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Fumito Ueda, who is the leader of Team Ico and the main developer working on The Last Guardian, has assured gamers that work on the video game is going on but has failed to clarify what his position inside the development team is.The Twitter message, according to a translation from Andriasang, stated, “There&rs... |
6 December 2011
10:19 GMT |
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The North Somerset Council and the Worcestershire County Council from the United Kingdom were fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) with £60,000 ($93,000 or 56,000 EUR), respectively £80,000 (125,000 or 93,000 EUR) after they sent emails containing sensitive information to the wrong i... |
28 November 2011
09:58 GMT |
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An iMac computer and some papers containing sensitive information were left behind by the London Borough of Southwark for two years after they moved to a different location.
The Information Commissioner's Office was alerted on June 3 2001, after the building's new tenant disposed of all the waste that was ... |
21 November 2011
07:29 GMT |
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A former staff member of the gambling industry was sentenced to three years of conditional discharge and ordered to pay $3,300 (2300 EUR) after pleading guilty to selling personal information belonging to 65,000 online Bingo players.
According to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Marc Ben-Ezra, a Fin... |
11 November 2011
09:48 GMT |
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The Dumfries and Galloway Council, responsible for the third largest region in Scotland, inadvertently posted on their website, for a period of two months, information belonging to a few hundred of their current and former staff members.According to The H Security, the whole thing happened as a result of a Freedom of... |
19 October 2011
03:44 GMT |
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A perfect example from the United Kingdom shows us once again that companies fail to protect the sensitive information they are in charge of and take active measures only after a data breach occurs.
The Information Commissioner’s Office, an organization that upholds information rights in the public interest... |
6 October 2011
08:30 GMT |
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The UK Information Commissioner's Office has the National Health Service (NHS) in its crosshairs and threatens with higher penalties if health organizations continue to lose sensitive patient information.In a statement released today the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham characterized NHS' data pr... |
1 July 2011
10:51 GMT |
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The Information Commissioner's Office fined the Surrey County Council with £120,000 for emailing personal information to the wrong addresses on three separate occasions.The first data breach occurred in May 2010 when an employee with one of the council's Adult Social Care Teams was asked by her manage... |
13 June 2011
00:22 GMT |
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Sony has just confirmed when it's going to release the HD versions of its hugely popular Ico and Shadow of the Colossus titles for the PlayStation 3 in territories like Europe or North America.
The Japanese company is continuing its high-definition remake trend, as after announcing during its E3 2011 conferen... |
9 June 2011
07:00 GMT |
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In between getting ready for the start of the upcoming E3 2011 conference, Sony Japan has just confirmed the release date and price for the high definition versions of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, and even showcased a video of the two remastered titles.
Sony started the high definition remake trend a few years ag... |
3 June 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Andrew Crossley, the former owner of ACS:Law, a legal firm that engaged in speculative invoicing, was fined by the Information Commissioner's Office for failing to adequately protect personal data.Speculative invoicing is the still on-going practice of sending letters to file sharers suspected of copyright infri... |
10 May 2011
14:03 GMT |
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The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined two London councils for violations of the Data Protection Act after they lost two laptops with unencrypted personal information.These represent the third and fourth monetary penalties served by the ICO since its was given such powers in April last year.The... |
8 February 2011
12:20 GMT |
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UK privacy advocates are strongly criticizing the Information Commissioner's Office for dropping its investigation into Data Protection Act violations committed by BT when sending unencrypted customers details to a law firm.The investigation began last September when an email database was leaked from ACS:Law, a ... |
2 February 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Turning beautiful digital images into great looking icons can be one of the simplest tasks you can do nowadays. All you need is one megabyte of Bmp2Icon.
Everyone has their stack of photos that are kept in virtual albums, written on optical discs or just stored in some folder on a local drive or online. Some of th... |
2 December 2010
10:31 GMT |
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The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has agreed to implement several security measures following an incident that resulted in sensitive information about members of the UK Parliament (MPs) being exposed.The security breach was the result of maintenance work on the MPs expenses database in July and... |
15 November 2010
03:22 GMT |
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The rumors surrounding a possible High Definition iteration of the much loved PlayStation 2 titles developed by Team Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and ICO, may be true after all. Amazon France's website states that a Team Ico Collection will be released on the PlayStation 3 in June 2011 and will be priced at 70 Eu... |
29 June 2010
08:01 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile UK has recently admitted that some of its employees have sold customer data to one of the rival networks in the country. The operator announced the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), and the two entities have been investigating together the allegations. The data sold is... |
18 November 2009
04:16 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is a very welcoming console. It has its exclusive releases, it shares some of its videogames with the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360 but until now, it has failed to mine one of the most extensive videogame libraries in the world, that of the previous PlayStation home gaming consoles, which had their ... |
28 September 2009
05:32 GMT |
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Video games have certainly evolved over the years, thanks to the fact that some of them have even been considered art, for their rich story, novel gameplay mechanics and the overall experience that was delivered to the player. Two such titles, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, were created by designer Fumito Ueda, who... |
8 July 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Occasionally, we all feel the need to change something about our surroundings or about ourselves - no matter if it's the hairdo, the place of our furniture or simply our daily habits. If you don't want to try anything big (the new hairstyle might be 'uninspired' or you could end up breaking your f... |
27 June 2008
07:41 GMT |
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According to a report from the Information Commissioner's Office, as many as 4.5 million young people would rather colleges, universities or potential employers didn't conduct an internet search on them unless they could first remove content from social networking sites.After all, who would welcome the oppo... |
23 November 2007
08:35 GMT |
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Ico is a 2001 action-adventure video game developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. Ico was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It did not sell very well in North America, but it received critical acclaim from many ... |
21 August 2007
09:58 GMT |
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The creator of Shadow of the Colossus and ICO, Fumito Ueda, sat down recently with Famitsu magazine for the purpose of discussing differences between Western and Japanese perspectives, but also of drawing comparisons between cost and design choices of the two cultures. Sony's God of War II for PS2 was the main t... |
2 August 2007
08:45 GMT |
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The gameplay in Ico is often compared to a 3D updating of that found in the original Prince of Persia. Interestingly, a washed-out soft lighting visual style, similar to the distinctive style of Ico, was later used in the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.Gameplay HintsDestroying the Smoke Crea... |
9 July 2007
10:50 GMT |
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