The most telling part of this piece is that Sony’s consumer products sales were down 24% year over year. Have you even seen a Sony TV these days? This is an amazing testament to the power and speed of a free, innovative market that supports open competition and one of the many reasons why I love the tech industry so much

Sony has just posted its results for the third quarter of its 2011 fiscal year and as expected, the news is not great. Sony posted an operating loss of $1.2 billion and net loss of $2 billion on revenue of $23.37 billion.

Straight from Microsoft’s website comes a stern warning about a security hole that apparently can happen by simply going to a bad website. Make sure your Windows system is promptly updated, like now!

The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an unauthenticated attacker sends a specially crafted web request to the target site. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take any action in the context of an existing account on the ASP.NET site, including executing arbitrary commands

Google plus is offering a collection of new features to improve the experience. Those include:

• “Volume” controls for who you follow. Very neat idea here in that you can fine tune how “loud”, i.e. prominently, to feature some of your friends over others. Will be nice to see how this works in practice, though it sounds good. I’ve got some chatterboxes who I would like to turn down yet other far less frequent friends that I don’t want to miss
• Google+ Pages improvements that allow you to have page managers, better notifications, and improved user engagement reporting
• Nicer looking notifications

Take a look and let me know what you think!

If you absolutely must get an iPad 2, be my guest. But don’t be disappointed when the iPad 3 comes out around the spring next year in 2012. Can you hang on? I will!

The next generation iPads are expected to be available in the next 3-4 months as makers in the supply chain have started delivering parts and components for the new tablets to OEM contractors while reducing those prepared for iPad 2, according to sources in the supply chain.

Keep an extra vigilant eye out for suspicious PDF files. Adobe has discovered a security hole and they plan an update in Jan 2012, more than a month from today.

Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1)