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10:05 AM ET, May 15, 2011

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Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:
Play On - PSN Restoration Begins Now  —  Thank you for your patience and encouragement over the last few weeks.  As covered in the post from earlier today, you can now update the firmware on your PS3 and change your password.  Kazuo Hirai just announced that we have begun the phased restoration …
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Ludwig Kietzmann / Joystiq:
PlayStation Network restoration begins, first phase includes online play  —  Following the release of firmware 3.61, Sony has announced that PlayStation Network and Qriocity restoration will be rolled out in phases, country by country, starting with the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.
Discussion: Reuters, Mashable!, THN, Kotaku, Bits, VG247 and Massively
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
PlayStation Network Outage: Now It's the Worst One Ever, Right?  —  (Update: Sony says the PlayStation Network is on its way back to full service.)  —  Back on April 26th, when Sony's PlayStation Network outage was less than a week old and we didn't yet know how bad the security breach was, I said it might be the worst outage ever.
Business Week:   Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Andrew Myers / Stanford News:
New Stanford computing lab imagines the mobile-social future  —  At the MobiSocial Lab, an engineering research team asks fundamental questions about the marriage of mobile communications and social networking, and begins to design the future of open-source social networking.
Electronista:
iPhone ‘5G’ case shows edge-to-edge screen, moved flash  —  Supposed iPhone 5G case tips up in China  —  A very early instance of a 2011 iPhone case has shown up in a listing at Asian trading site AliBaba.  Guangdong-based Kulcase is selling what it claims is a crystal case for an “iPhone 5G.”
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Watch out Instapaper: Mac OS X Lion's Safari Reading List to sync with iOS devices  —  Following the discovery that Mac OS X Lion includes a new Reading List feature in Safari - similar to the popular Instapaper service - Instapaper's creator went on record to say that the feature won't be a competitor until it syncs with iOS devices.
Marcus Wohlsen / Associated Press:
Twitter feed lawsuit underscores power of a tweet  —  SAN FRANCISCO - When Adorian Deck was home sick from high school, he entertained himself like countless other teenagers have in recent years: He started a Twitter account.  —  Unlike other teenagers, Deck's account became a sensation.
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Bing Adds Facebook Recommendations to Search  —  In Battle Against Google, Microsoft Seeks Leg Up in Social Search  —  Microsoft will begin adding Facebook data to its Bing search results on Tuesday, including the ubiquitous “like,” in another bid to differentiate from arch-rival Google.
Discussion: @loic and WinRumors
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
Six Reasons Why Chromebooks Are a Bad Idea  —  Not everyone thinks Google's attempt to reinvent the computer will work.  —  When it took the wraps off its stripped down, nothing-but-the-browser Chromebooks this week Google was attempting its own iPad moment.
Discussion: ITworld.com
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Nuance and Apple partnership is all but confirmed: Lion uses Nuance speech technology  —  Apple and Nuance's rumored partnership is all but official at this point: Apple's upcoming Mac OS X Lion uses Nuance's speech technology.  A quick look in Lion's system preferences application reveals several …
Discussion: Netputing, App Advice, TUAW and Electronista
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Close To A Big Search Deal With Baidu, Says Chinese Press  —  Microsoft is close to announcing a partnership with Chinese search company Baidu, according to rumors in the Chinese press, via Bill Bishop on Twitter.  —  It looks like Baidu is taking over the paid ads on Bing China …
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The Ad-Supported Kindle Is Amazon's Best Seller  —  Amazon's cheapest Kindle, the one supported by advertising and special offers, it its best-selling Kindle, if you can trust Amazon's best-selling Kindles list.  —  This tells us:  —  1) People don't hate advertising as much as some Internet wonks think they do.
 
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Discussion: @jlanzone and TechCrunch
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
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Forget the iPod Tax, Canadian Copyright Collective Demanding Memory Card Tax
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