A knocked the PS3 gaming community offline for days and . With more than 70 million people using the network, some are calling this breach one of the worst ever and a .

Seems the only way to get more powerful -- or less weak -- in telecom these days is to join forces. A couple of huge deals went down in April, with for $2.5 billion shortly after , and for about $1.9 billion.

Apple, Google and Microsoft were all answering questions after it was made widely public that some smartphones have software that enables vendors to track users' locations. This media storm started with revelations about , prompting to assure at least one customer the issue was being misunderstood and blown out of proportion and that it merely tracks WiFi hotspot and cell tower locations so that it can access that information when it's requested. Meanwhile, two users claiming Apple's actions violated federal privacy law, and naturally lawmakers got into the act as well. and didn't escape scrutiny either.

A due to undisclosed server problems resulted in customers' websites being down and/or flakey for days (even for those who took the precaution of signing on for , and raised all the usual concerns about whether it's still too early to trust your business to the cloud due to . Amazon, despite being plugged into social network systems such as blogs and Twitter, was , perhaps due to legal concerns.

A resulted in dozens of its customers -- including big names like Best Buy, Capital One and Eddie Bauer -- issuing warnings to their customers about theft of names and email addresses. Epsilon has sworn it will , though kept details of the breach close it vest. The fear remains that customers whose names and email addresses were swiped could become phishing targets.