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it's Monday May 9th I'm Jeff Bakalar and it's time to get loaded the ongoing playstation network outage continues and now sony is giving word that it'll need to keep testing services before all is restored this comes off of reports last week that some services would be up and running with each day gamers become more and more unruly and now with news of a third attack planned against them Sony surely has its hands full some say PSN won't be back up fully until the end of May according to a new survey conducted by brands Apple is now the most valuable brand in the world surpassing even Google valued at an approximate 153 billion dollars the company tops names like coca-cola BMW and Disney in terms of retail amazon became the world's most valuable storefront brand even though they don't have a single actual store popular magazines like GQ The New Yorker and wired are coming to the iPad Conde Nast the publisher of all three properties and that's that it will begin selling digital subscriptions through the app store for around seven magazines Hearst publisher of Esquire and Popular Mechanics said their magazines will go on sale in July no exact pricing is planned yet but single issues will go for cheaper on the iPad and subscriptions are rumored to go for around twenty dollars a year HP is jumping into the mobile data service market with a 3g connection the company is calling data pass the service will allow 3g power to HP laptops to connect to Sprint's evdo network without any contracts the plan started five dollars for seventy five megabytes over a seven hour period in other HP news the company has released a slew of new laptops that feature Intel's new Sandy Bridge chips first is the new mainstream 14-inch pavilion dv4 which features an imprint finish and cool Sense technology next an updated mini 210 as an edge-to-edge 10.1 inch display eight point eight hours of battery life and a seamless touch bed and finally the high-end envy 14 gets a refresh USB 3.0 finally the online social networking site for business professionals linked in will begin offering 7.8 4 million shares of the company at around 32 to 35 dollars a piece which values the company at over 3 billion dollars linkedin stands to make roughly a hundred and forty six million from the IPO alone those your headlines for today I'm Jeff Bakalar for CNN com and you've just been loaded