...g off their
latest gadgets. So far attendees have been wowed by a 400-disc Blu-ray
changer from Sony and a JVC 4K projector that pumps out 3500 lumens
worth of video. As usual, no price...
Thursday, September 04, 2008 18:14
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Sony issued a recall for
about 73,000 Sony Vaio TZ-series notebooks (440,000 globally), which include a
manufacturing defect that can cause a short
Thursday, September 04, 2008 09:27
... instead of $449. Microsoft’s pricing compares to $249 for the Nintendo Wii and at least $399 for the Sony PS3 80 GB. If the fact that the Xbox 360 Arcade has no hard drive storage out of considerat...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 17:59
...howed high-def discs (which included HD-DVD) overtaking VHS tape sales back in the first half of 2007. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Asia Pacific vice president Tim Meade recently predicted Blu...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 14:54
First, there was Apple, then there was Google and now we have Sony
Ericsson that wants to recruit a developer base to build applications
for its upcoming iPhone beater Xperia X1. But there ar
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:19
Sony ’s Playstation Portable (PSP) will see its first major feature
update next month: Scheduled for an October 16 launch in Japan, the new
PSP-3000 is positioned to challenge Nintendo’s DS co
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:08
...sp; The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced today that the
chief executives of Microsoft, Sony and Ford will deliver keynote
addresses at the 2009 International CES tradeshow. Most nota...
Friday, August 29, 2008 14:21
Samsung and Sony are showcasing their latest Blu-ray player flagship
models at the IFA 2008 tradeshow. Both players are priced outside the
mainstream market and may not see especially high pr
Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:03
Last time we checked, the Super Audio CD (SACD) was one of Sony ’s big
failures in recent history. The idea of a DRM-laden specialty audio
listening experience did not stick too well with high
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:42
The never ending story of Immersion’s Touchsense patent infringement
suit against Sony and Microsoft has finally come to an end, with an
example of legal brilliancy. While Microsoft was sued
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 09:10
...cording to Goffena the program will self-destruct on August 29th. Sadly, there are no plans for a Sony Vegas plug-in. Even on an 8-core Skulltrail system, rendering long clips of HD H.264 can ta...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 18:17
...ing units, according to the statistics released by Folding@Home. The second most powerful platform is Sony ’s PS3 with 1251 TFlops (44,379 processors), followed by ATI Radeon graphics cards with 404 ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:12
Sony said it will begin shipping an improved version of its Playstation Portable called the PSP-3000 in Japan, Asia, North America and Europe in October. While the overall appearance remains virtual
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 09:38
Qimonda AG has announced that it has started shipping XDR DRAM in volume for the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console. Qimonda started to ship first samples of the 512Mb XDR DRAM in January 200
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 09:29
The reluctant mating of Sony products with Apple iPods is something the
guys back at Sony Japan HQ will probably always kick themselves about.
The digital version of the Walkman never really
Friday, August 22, 2008 15:00
... sense impression outside legal office, make perfect sense. Take, for example, Immersion’s suit against Sony and its vibration feature in its Dualshock controllers. Immersion had worked on this techno...
Friday, August 22, 2008 14:50
... 12 months - 43% are aiming for a Mac, nearly twice the value of Apple's closet competition (Dell: 22%, Sony : 8%, HP: 6%, Gateway: 3%). Three years ago, 46% planned on buying Dell laptop and only 17% ...
Friday, August 22, 2008 12:42
...ives giving an insane 1 GB sustained transfer rate. In a demo we saw at Computex, Intel loaded up Sony Vegas 8 with a 1 GB video file in less than five seconds. They also demoed a picture ...
Thursday, August 21, 2008 00:05
...tegrated chip for basic office tasks. In an onstage demonstration, Perlmutter and his assistant used a Sony laptop with a discrete Nvidia card and the Intel integrated graphics chip. Running th...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 16:18
...g move? Microsoft usually has a tough time grabbing positive video game headlines against Nintendo and Sony , but we are sure that Microsoft is celebrating at least this week. According to a Reuters a...
Monday, August 18, 2008 11:53
... However, 555,000 Wiis translate into a sharp decrease from the 667,000 units the company sold in June. Sony sold 225,000 PS3, down from almost 406,000 in June, while the Xbox 360 dropped to 205,000 f...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 18:29
...ufacturing issues. The paper noted that such issues happened quite a bit in the past with Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Nokia. These are "completely normal childhood illnesses," especially in the ca...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 16:07
... ($59.26 billion) and Dell ($50.48 billion). It's interesting to note that the combined market value of Sony , Amazon, Yahoo!, Adobe, Motorola, Real Networks, Palm and Napster is less than that of Appl...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:14
...n Store is brilliant and that some of the games provided on the new phone should have both Nintendo and Sony very worried. If the rumored iPhone Nano is coming or a version of the iPhone that does not...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 00:27
...other cellphone developers are able to catch up with Apple in terms of hardware – we are thinking about Sony ’s Xperia X1 in particular. Jack Gold, research analyst at J. Gold Associates,...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:53
...rket situation. The cheapest big-brand-name Blu-ray players you can buy today is Samsung’s BD-P1400 and Sony ’s BDP-S300 model with average retail prices of $330 and $333, respectively. Some retailers ...
Friday, August 08, 2008 15:18
... for 12 months. Apple's music store is currently under heavy pressure from all sides, on all markets. Sony , Vivendi and Universal joined with MySpace to create an online music store that will reach ...
Friday, August 08, 2008 14:28
... games for the Wall of Sheep team. Several equipment failures, like the failure of an 11 year-old Sony Vaio laptop and a blown power supply on a Compaq desktop, have slowed the scanning. A...
Thursday, August 07, 2008 17:42
Sony has announced that it will invest approximately $371 million toward strengthening its lithium ion battery production operations. This is the first phase of investment in lithium ion batteri
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 09:00
Bertelsmann will sell its 50% stake in Sony BMG to Sony in a $900 million deal, the companies announced Tuesday, giving the Japanese company full ownership of the joint venture whose roster of arti
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 14:35
...ones per quarter, followed by Samsung with 45 million, Motorola with 28 million, LG with 27 million and Sony Ericsson with 24 million. The indication that Foxconn may be manufacturing iPhones above ...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:36
...ne manufacturers and the James Bond
movie franchise. The latest to date is a special edition C902 from Sony
Ericsson, tied to the upcoming Quantum of Solace movie, which is
scheduled for a November...
Monday, August 04, 2008 13:43
...to be made. Wilson added the one possible "bright spot" is that the Blu-ray enabled PlayStation 3 from Sony has seen a strong following, meaning the installed base for this technology will continue t...
Friday, August 01, 2008 13:19
...BD movie discs may surpass that of DVDs in 2011, according to Asia Pacific vice president Tim Meade for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE). The global sales value of BD movie discs as a percentag...
Friday, August 01, 2008 11:54
... The top five global mobile phone vendors, meanwhile, are Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson. It is interesting to note that while Nokia leads the pack with nearly 40% market ...
Thursday, July 31, 2008 14:46
...y scheduled for a Q3 2008 release the phone has now been pushed back for a H1 2009 release. That leaves Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1 as the only highly anticipated iPhone competitor that is still schedul...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:02
Sony released the next firmware update for its PS3 game console. We will print the entire release description provided by Sony ’s Eric Lempel here: “Just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up th
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:16
... and surge in popularity in the early 2000s, the technology has become a serial bus interface common in Sony and Apple computers as well as a range of consumer electronics devices such as video camera...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 14:02
Sony had a rough second calendar quarter (fiscal Q1 2008 for the
company) with profits plunging nearly 48% to $326.9 million while sales
inched up to $18.7 billion. However, the game segment
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 09:46
...was due to a price war the company was involved in for its TV and monitor businesses. In North America, Sony instigated a price war in the LCD TV market in May, forcing Samsung to follow suit.
Mor...
Monday, July 28, 2008 08:40
Tokyo (Japan) - Japan-based vendors including Sony , Sharp and Pioneer as well as South Korea-based Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have reduced retail prices for their entry-level Blu-ray Disc
Friday, July 25, 2008 11:54
...g MMO based on the DC comics
universe. The aptly-named DC Universe Online is being developed by
Sony Online Entertainment and will be available for both the
PlayStation 3 and PCs. Playe...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 17:12
...ill undertake major efforts to merge code bases from its supporting partners (Symbian, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, DoCoMo) into a new platform that will be able to run legacy applications. Gold th...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 17:04
...in their units by September 1, 2010. Of course, PCs and handheld systems like the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP are exempt from this. The law also establishes a 16 member panel that will study the c...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 13:11
Sony is reportedly making the jump into the low-cost notebook market. According to the Chinese Economic Daily News, Foxconn will be manufacturing the Sony model, whose introduction date and price rem
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:23
After a very rocky start, Sony is now much more optimistic about the
sales potential of its game console: Sony hopes the PS3 will outsell
the PS2 eventually. Chicago (IL) – After a very rocky
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:00
... Proving Grounds will follow in a predictable pattern. When it comes to platforms, Apogee is targeting Sony PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS. These mobile platforms feature 112 million potential ...
Monday, July 21, 2008 13:01
...hough top Hollywood movie studios have their own production capacity for producing movie discs, such as Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation for Sony Pictures and Warner Advanced Media Operations (WAMO...
Monday, July 21, 2008 09:25
...0 stands at 10,465,900 units. The PS3 still trails the two with cumulative sales 4,851,100 units, but Sony sold close to twice as many PS3s in June as Microsoft sold Xbox 360s: NPD said that U.S. re...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 21:00
As part of its "video everywhere" strategy, Sony plans to marry
Internet-equipped Bravia HDTVs with Amazon's new video-on-demand
service to fight off increasing pressure from set-top box vend
Thursday, July 17, 2008 13:31
Multi-touch display 
Nvidia rolls out Tegra 
Overclocking:
Electric Motorcycle inventor crashes at NextFest 
