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it's Wednesday October 12 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on sina com and it's time to get loaded sony is dealing with another security mess today it locked down 93,000 accounts on the playstation and sony entertainment networks after seeing a large amount of attempts to break into user accounts the hacking began friday but sony says no credit card information was at risk sony sent emails to customers who were affected but that's only one-tenth of one percent of its users the blackberry service outage that has crippled customers across Europe has now spread into the US and Canada this morning research in motion has said the problems with email web browsing and blackberry messenger all stem from a course switch failure and that in turn caused a traffic jam of data that they have to clear up this marks the third day of data disruptions for blackberry users today Apple is releasing the iOS 5 update for owners of iPhones iPads and iPods improvements to the operating system include photo editing tools reminders a notification banner pulldown menu Twitter integration and I message for messaging between other iOS 5 users but the most notable the updates is the ability to sync files between devices over your home Wi-Fi users can sign up for iCloud which not only gives 5 gigabytes of free data storage but also lets users view add or change contacts and calendar events or find a lost iPhone from iCloud com a messaging app is finding popularity with wall street protesters it's called vibe and it's so much of the concept of Twitter except users can post anonymously and they don't have to create an account to share messages the apps creator told the New York Times that it grew from 1,000 to 12,000 users in the past week and there are about a thousand messages a day posted on vibe available on iOS and Android the app uses GPS to share messages across specific locations and if you own a sony bravia television ya better check if it's melting sony recalled 1.6 million bravia flat panel TVs sold worldwide since 2007 this is after 11 reported cases of the TV's melting or catching fire turns out there's a faulty component in the backlight system that might be causing the overheating first hacking now a melt is just not a good day for Sony those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet com and you just been loaded