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Has the nightmare finally ended for the Sony PlayStation Network? It has been more than five weeks since the service was brought down in a hack that crippled gameplay and potentially exposed the personal data of 70 million users. In a press release, Sony announced that it is bringing full functionality back to PSN and music service Qriocity.

This is the second, and hopefully final, phase of bringing the PlayStation Network back online. The first, which was rolled out May 15, restored partial services including gameplay, account management and chat. The full restoration will bring full functionality back to the PlayStation Store, in-game commerce, and the ability to redeem vouchers. Is this the end of the saga that could be the most significant network hack ever?

The security researchers at F-Secure have discovered several phishing sites hosted on Google Docs, Google's online office suite. This is not an uncommon occurrence, it seems. According to a new blog post on the security firm's site, the team says "we regularly see phishing sites via Google Docs spreadsheets and hosted on spreadsheets.google.com."

The dangerous thing about these attacks is that they're hosted on a google.com domain, which gives these nefarious pages an air of legitimacy. One form even had the researchers themselves stumped as to whether it was phishing or not!

The hack that has plagued the Playstation Network for the last week is much worse than simply taking down the platform. Sony reports on its Playstation Network blog that personal data of its 70 million users has been exposed by the hacker, including the possibility of credit card numbers.

According to the Playstation Network blog; "we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birth date, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained."

The Sony Playstation Network hack that has plagued the video game platform since April 20 has forced the company to shutdown the service indefinitely while it works to rebuild the platform.

The Playstation blog, a space normally used for gaming updates, tips and anecdotes, has been updating the status of the network about once a day since the initial attack brought down the platform last week. It said April 25 that the company does not have a timeframe for when the service will again be available.

The long-rumored Playstation Phone just made its official debut by way of a high-profile Super Bowl advertisement and updated Facebook page. The phone, known as the Xperia Play, has been expected to appear at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Now, according to Sony Ericsson's Facebook page, the date is set: Feb. 13, 2011 at 18:00 GMT (or 1 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Pacific).

The announcement should bring news of the phone's price, carrier partnership(s) and launch date.

Think the mobile space is crowded now? Just wait until next month. According to Bloomberg sources, Sony is indeed launching a mobile phone, as previous rumors had indicated. The so-called "Playstation Phone" will be shown at next month's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, alongside a new portable game player, the report says.

The gaming device is expected to launch on January 27 - just prior to the annual mobile conference - while the smartphone is expected sometime in February.

Editor's Note: This list was contributed by Steve O'Hear, editor of last100, a former RWW network blog.

There was lots of activity in the digital lifestyle space in 2008, with new devices, services, and platforms being launched and some of our favorites from last year getting significant updates. One notable trend throughout the year was the way these products and services began to converge; not in the sense that they were becoming all-in-one devices, although some of that was happening, but rather by hardware, services, and content playing together nicely, often through open standards and platforms, with the Internet acting as a conduit. On that note, here are our picks of the 10 best digital lifestyle products of 2008.