Cruz, The Champion of FIFA Interactive World Cup 2011

Francisco Cruz of Portugal won the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2011. FIFA gave the award to 16-year-old boy from the city Trofa, Portugal. Cruz won the championship after defeating Javier Munoz of Colombia to 4-1. 24 finalists who escaped from a series of six online qualifiers and 10 times online directly, was flown to LA and were treated with great entertainment.

This championship is a collaboration between FIFA, EA Sports and Sony PlayStation, and this year followed by 900 thousand participants around the world.

For this victory Cruz received $ 20,000 in cash and two tickets to attend the FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala (annual award for best footballer in the previous season) next year.

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Sony Sites in Four Countries Leaks

After announcing the estimated loss in the fiscal year ending in March 2011, Sony Corp. was hit by the disaster. Sony has announced that its website in four countries cracked of smugglers, Tuesday (25/05/2011). One result, 8,500 people personal information leaked from the Sony Music Entertainment in Greece. A spokesman for Sony Ericsson said, about 2,000 consumer data drawn from a single server running shopping site Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB in Canada. Meanwhile, in Thailand, the Sony seems to be used to send a malicious email.

Atsuo Omagari, a spokesman for Sony, said the electronics company is also time to stop the site in Indonesia because of suspicion of assault. Sony also found that the site code in the Japanese music unit has been stolen. He said the problems at the four sites has been fixed and no credit card information listed on these sites. Previously, hackers stole data from more than 100 million users on the PlayStation Network and make Sony had to pay 171 million U.S. dollars to repair.

"Sony will likely need more time to resolve this case," said Nobuo Kurahashi, an analyst at Mizuho Financial Group Inc.

via Kompas Tekno

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