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Nearly a month after PlayStation Network went offline, Sony has restored the services and has thanked its loyal fans by offering them free games, movies and music as part of a 'Welcome Back' package.

Sony Corp's CEO was unapologetic about the company's delay in informing owners of more than 100 million accounts of its networked services whose information was stolen by hackers last month.

North American PlayStation Network customers will get free game downloads and video rentals as a welcome back following a massive outage and data breach.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer said keeping its database secure is a never-ending process.

Apple's iPhone 5 would have an 8 megapixel camera and a redesigned antenna, but it may not have feature the LTE and NFC capabilities.

Sony's strategy to woo its lost customers post the PlayStation Network outage involves offering loads of freebies - games, music and movies.

Sony introduces its Welcome Back package, which includes free games, free movie rentals and more.

Amazon's cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) EC2 which leases compute power was used by hackers to siphon off personal details of over 80 million users from Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN).

Almost 24 hours after Sony restored the PlayStation Network and Qriocity in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, there was no word on the restoration of the services in Japan and the rest of Asia. Meanwhile, there have been reports that the PSN restoration in the U.S. and Europe was far from being a smooth affair, with occasional server glitches slowing down the process much to the disappointment of avid fans who skipped sleep to lay hands on favored games.

Sony began restoring services to its Playstation Network on Sunday after nearly 3 weeks offline, but the process wasn't without its own challenges.

Sony began restoring services to its Playstation Network on Sunday after nearly 3 weeks offline, explaining it was not putting consumer data protection a company commitment.

Sony has restored the PSN and introduced new security features.

The PSN is back up in the US after weeks of disruption. According to Sony’s map here, it’s functional in all 50 US states.

Sony said it had begun restoration of its PlayStation Network games service on Sunday, almost a month after a massive security breach of the network forced the company to shut it down.

Sony began restoration of its beleaguered PlayStation Network on Sunday, much to the delight of its nearly 80 million global customers that have waited nearly 4 weeks for the service to be restored.

Twitter has become garrulous with tweeters sharing news about Sony PlayStation Network waking up from forced slumber to enthral users in many parts of the world. A cascade of twitter messages said online games on PlayStation are accessible in the U.S. East Coast.

Finally good news for anxious Sony PlayStation fans - the Japanese company tendered a heartfelt apology on Saturday and said it would begin restoring the PlayStation Network services as early as this Sunday.

Sony Corp. executive Kazuo Hirai announced on Saturday that the PlayStation Network's PS3 and PS online gameplay services are back online around the world although the PlayStation store will come back online at a later date.

Sony said it had begun restoration of its PlayStation Network games service on Sunday, almost a month after a massive security breach of the network forced the company to shut it down.

Sony Japan told customers today that it would begin phased restoration of its services of its beleaguered Playstation Network which has been suffering from an outage for nearly a month.

Sony said it would begin a phased restoration of its PlayStation Network games service Sunday on a country by country basis and expected the process to be complete by May 31.

Ending ominous silence over the restoration of PS3 Network that had millions of users on tenterhooks, Sony said in an official blog on Saturday that it has started the phased restoration of the PlayStation services which have been down for more than three weeks after daring hacker attacks.

Sony Japan told customers today that it would begin phased restoration of its services of its beleaguered Playstation Network which has been suffering from an outage for nearly a month.

Sony said it would begin a phased restoration of its PlayStation Network games service on Sunday on a country by country basis and expected the process to be complete by May 31.

Sony told customers that it is moving closer to restoring services to its beleaguered Playstation Network, saying earlier this week that it would take be a few days, but so far after a week the network is still offline.

The Playstation Network outage has inconvenienced and enraged tens of millions of Playstation users for weeks now.

Sony told customers that it is moving closer to restoring services to its beleaguered Playstation Network, saying earlier this week that it would take be a few days, but so after a week the network is still offline.

There is no word as yet on when Sony's PlayStation Network will be back online. Surprisingly, rumor mills too are silent about Sony's next move. There is talk however that fans experiencing withdrawal symptoms could look at alternatives. That means a hardware sale windfall for Xbox and Wii.

Sony Japan told customers that it is moving closer to restoring services to its beleaguered Playstation Network, but the announcement states that service wouldn't be restored everywhere immediately.