As we mentioned last week, things just keep getting worse for Sony. Hackers gained access to their Playstation Network’s backend on April 19th, and the service (along with on-demand service Qriocity) has been offline since a few days after the attack.

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We hope you enjoy it! And without further ado: Every couple [...]

Tornados, earthquakes, tsunamis. It seems like every time you turn around, there is another natural disaster occurring. And while that is depressing, one bit of silver lining is that using text messages to donate to charities has proven a simple, reliable way to raise large amounts of money from a wide swath of people in [...]

Quick Hit: Novatel Wireless Inc.’s MiFi 4082 is an extremely compact mobile hotspot unit that provides easy access to mobile data services for multiple devices. The only downsides are those imposed by carrier partner Sprint Nextel through its rate plans and hit-or-miss network coverage. Review: One of the greatest benefits to consumers from so-called “4G” [...]

It’s long been suspected that Google is taking a cloud-based approach to productivity on tablets and other portable devices, recently enabling mobile editing for their widely-used web office suite. However Google today surprised everybody by rolling out a full-featured Google Docs app for Android, with a couple of other goodies in tow.

Nokia has been losing two things at alarming rates recently – market share and employees. In what is the third round of redundancies in recent memory, Nokia has announced it will be cutting loose 4,000 employees from its operations in the UK, Demark and Finland.

It always raises a wry smile when well-intentioned customer relations moves result in a user backlash, which is why we smiled with more than a hint of wryness when Motorola’s “Let’s engage our users!” Facebook activity saw fans of the manufacturer voting with their feet and demanding an end to locked bootloaders.

Media reports that Apple Inc. (AAPL) can track a user’s every movement are teeing up a new round of debate on privacy concerns as regulators and we common folk question who has access to our digital trails, what they are doing with it and what can be done with it. Some studies have noted that [...]

Last week we brought you news that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) had crashed, taking with it popular services like FourSquare and Reddit. Just a few hours later Sony’s Playstation Network (PSN) was taken offline in response to an “external intrusion”.

Although many heralded the arrival of Amazon.com Inc.’s Android Appstore as a boost to the Android ecosystem, and a victory for consumer choice, Apple Inc. congratulated Amazon.com in a rather different way – they sued them.