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1. Nvidia accelerates GPU pixel processing

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ... also featured in the RSX – or Reality Synthesizer – GPU co-developed by Nvidia for the Sony PlayStation 3. See Also Nvidia auctions "ultimate" gaming system on eBay 
Nvidia remains "committed" to gaming ...

2. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... intensive applications, including ray tracing, 3D cloud computing, video encoding and computer-aided engineering. Apple laptops less reliable than Asus, Toshiba, Sony 

A report from computer warranty ...

3. Apple laptops less reliable than Asus, Toshiba, Sony

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Price no guarantee of quality A report from computer warranty firm Square Trade shows that Apple could only manage fourth place, behind Asus, Toshiba and Sony, in terms of laptop reliability. The research ...

4. E-readers are way too expensive

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... the entry of new players, such as Barnes and Noble, into the e-reader market and an increase in models from Amazon and Sony, consumer gegan to have choices. Among the product differentiation points are ...

5. Best Buy sells Acer notebook for $250

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... give away six months of AV protection through the holiday season. It will offer over 30 laptops from Acer, Apple, Asus, Dell, Gateway, Sony, Toshiba and Lenovo in prices that range from $250 to $2,000. ...

6. Internet behemoths fight hard for net neutrality

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Monday, 19 October 2009

   ... the interest of consumers, the letter continued. Other luminaries who have signed the letter include the CEO of eBay, the president of Sony Electronics, the CEO of Skype, and the founder of Flickr. This ...

7. iPhone is rubbish - give me POTS or die

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Wednesday, 14 October 2009

   They say that the iPhone is fantastic. They say the applications are great. They say all sorts of stuff about the iPhone. But give me the Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) any time.They say that the iPhone ...

8. Sony debuts ultra-thin Vaio X notebook

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Thursday, 08 October 2009

   Sony has debuted its ultra-thin Vaio X notebook line. The X series - which is housed in a lightweight carbon-fiber chassis - weighs 1.6 pounds and is just over a half-inch thin. Sony has debuted its ultra-thin ...

9. Down in the Valley, the car lots are empty

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 28 September 2009

   ... to millionaire enclave Silver Creek, and all the way there was property to let and empty car lots.It’s depressed in San Francisco too – just down from the Marriott, the Sony shop has shuttered, to be replaced ...

10. SuperSpeed controller to boost adoption of USB 3.0

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... camera equipped with a three megapixel Sony IMX036 CMOS image sensor. The camera is reportedly capable of outputting 1080p HD images at 60 frames per second. The Intel Developer Forum takes place between ...

11. USB 3.0 gets public viewing

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    ... Grey Research Superspeed digital video camera, using a three megapixel Sony IMX036 CMOS image sensor to output 1080p HD images at 60 frames per second, will stream HD video to a notebook using a USB Express ...

12. Asus to make bid for ebook crown

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    ... are to be believed. UK newspaper the Sunday Times said yesterday that Asus is toying with an ebook that will go head on against Sony and Kindle while the device will be available in full color. Other ...

13. Sony gets Google Chrome plated

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    All Sony Vaio PCs sold in the USA will come pre-installed with Google Chrome, the company said today.All Sony Vaio PCs sold in the USA will come pre-installed with Google Chrome, the company said today. ...

14. Sony fights Kindle with $400 high end wireless reader

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009

    Electronics giant Sony took on Kindle today by revealing a wireless e-reader it will release later this year.Electronics giant Sony took on Kindle today by revealing a wireless e-reader it will release ...

15. Apple unlikely to launch game console before 2015

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... are reminiscent of the Sony faithful in the 70s and 80s who bought only Sony TV and stereo components," explained Pachter. "These people would buy an Apple refrigerator, if one was offered, on the basis ...

16. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... Pavilion dv6T, Alienware M17, Acer Aspire 5739G, Toshiba Satellite M500, Sony VAIO FW Series, Samsung R522, Asus W90Vp-X1, MSI GX623 and Dell Studio 15. "As consumers increasingly demand greater visual ...

17. PC industry staggering back - reports

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... of HP notebook in 2010 and also has firm orders from Apple, Sony and Lenovo. Wistron will benefit from Acer outsourcing 10 million, while it will also produce a million notebooks for Toshiba. On the LCD ...

18. Sony to cut eBook and Reader prices

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

     Sony is set to announce two new eBook Readers tomorrow in an apparent move to compete more aggressively with Amazon. The company will also reduce prices for eBooks offered for the Reader devices, ...

19. Immersion to showcase touch feedback for laptops and portable devices

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 23 July 2009

    ... DS with a rumble pack feature make sense? Immersion still relies mainly on income generated by licensing its touch feedback technology to game controllers offered by companies such as Sony and Microsoft. ...

20. Expect lots of OLED TVs by Yuletide

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... reason for that is because Samsung, Sony and Ericsson and Nokia pushed AMOLED mobile phones for all they worth in the first half of this year, with over 10 models released so far. Jennifer Colegrove, ...

21. Teen tells Morgan Stanley the obvious

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... the only two regular applications for these are SMS and voice calls. Sony Ericsson is the brand of choice. FaceBook is the clear winner for social networking, with Robson reckoning that nearly everyone ...

22. Dozens of companies sued over packet radio patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    ... Option Wireless, Palm, Panasonic, Seiko, Sharp, Sierra Wireless, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, UTstarcom, Xerox and ZTE Corporation. The patents in question are US 6,480,497 and 5,400,338 called Method ...

23. How my Blackberry isn't crackberrying me up

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

      My mobile phone tariff allows for a free upgrade every 18 months or so and this time I traded in my dodgy Sony-Ericcson brick for a Blackberry Curve 8900. My mobile phone tariff allows for a free ...

24. Sony falls to Netbook fever

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

      While it has refused to get tangled up with Netbook PCs before, Sony has decided to bite the bullet and release one anyway. While it has refused to get tangled up with Netbook PCs before, Sony has ...

25. Eurocrats hail single phone charger standard

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 29 June 2009

    ... (EC) has hailed a move by cellphone manufacturers to collaborate on a single charge standard as great news for consumers. Or people as we prefer to call them. Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Apple, LG, Samsung, ...

26. Unholy war breaks out over lithium-ion batteries

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    ... in the South Korean market might be delayed because of the proposed new rules. The whole problem of lithium-ion batteries became apparent when a notebook using Sony li-ion batters spectacularly exploded ...

27. Microsoft claims E3 victory as Nintendo stumbles

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 03 June 2009

    ... explained that Microsoft had clearly "pulled ahead" of  Sony and Nintendo "when it comes to offering next generation online entertainment experiences." Los Angeles (CA) - A supposedly neutral third-party ...

28. HP notebook batteries recalled

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 14 May 2009

    ... came in 2006, when the Inquirer, a British web site, obtained pictures of a Sony laptop going up in flames. See AlsoThe Battery Recall: A win for the web  ...

29. Microsoft releases third anti-Apple ad: It’s Blu-ray!

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 10 April 2009

    ... the end, the available Blu-ray drive on a 16.4” Sony notebook seals the deal. A convincing story? Let us know and leave a comment below.    ...

30. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... of both Sony and PSP in the portable gaming arena, enabling game developers to create and port stunning games. And last but not least, the new iPhones will download data from cellular networks twice ...

31. Google gives Sony's e-Book reader an additional 500,000 books

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 March 2009

    Sony Corp's e-Book reading device is expected to be announced today, but already it's received a huge set of copyright-free books, courtesy of Google. The 500,000 book injection adds to Sony's existing ...

32. Security whiz spells Safari's doom in upcoming hacking contest

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 06 March 2009

    ... under Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio P machine. Contestants will be also invited to break into Safari and Firefox running under OS X Leopard on MacBook Air. Whoever wins gets to walk home with $5,000 in the ...

33. Who needs Steve Jobs, anyway?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 06 March 2009

    ... second of every Steve Jobs keynote, we should all adapt to new realities. As Apple grows and becomes the next Sony, something has to give. And in Apple's case it may well be the Hollywood-style presentations ...

34. ChangeWave: MacBook sales up in next 3 months, HP and Dell down

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... with their operating system). Established brands like HP, Dell and Sony are far from Apple in this ChangeWave survey, recording 52%, 55% and 56% in the "very satisfied" rating respectively. It is interesting ...

35. The race to kill the MacBook Air is on

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... compete, but where companies like Sony are bringing feature-packed machines for a fraction of MacBook Air's price. The word about Dell's Adamo Thirteen spread quickly when the computer maker first pitched ...

36. Linus Torvalds' old company now officially dead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

    ... long and there were not many design wins for the chip – the most significant may have been the integration of Crusoe in a silver-purple Sony Vaio sub-notebook, which this writer can remember all ...

37. Apple, Nintendo absent in Greenpeace green electronics ranking

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 09 January 2009

    ... current report sees Nokia in the lead, followed by Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, Samsung and Fujitsu-Siemens. Trailing the pack are Apple, Philips, Lenovo, Microsoft and Nintendo. Nintendo is dead last and scores ...

38. CES 2009: Sony unveils world's lightest eight inch notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 07 January 2009

      This evening at CES, Sony unveiled its new VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC, the world's lightest 8" notebook. "About the size of a business envelope and roughly as thin as a cell phone, the VAIO Lifestyle ...

39. Top 10 people in technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Sunday, 28 December 2008

    ... in the video game console war with Microsoft and Sony. Sony dominated, Microsoft tried to figure out its direction and Nintendo ended up as the company no one saw coming. Reggie Fils-Aime is the charismatic ...

40. Dell pitches MacBook Air rival, Sony enters netbook market

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 24 December 2008

    ... Adamo. Sony is prepping a new Vaio portable computer that walks a fine line between an ultra-portable notebook and a netbook. What about Apple? As the race to knock down the MacBook Air heats up, the ...

41. Semiconductor industry facing double-digit declines in Q4, into Q1'09

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... major semiconductor players currently being hit by industry trends include Texas Instruments, Toshiba, STMicroelectronics, Hynix, Renesas Technology, Sony and Infineon. Summary of trends Baird ...

42. DOT removes major hurdle to U.S. fuel cell adoption

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

    Earlier this year the U.S. Department of Transportation removed a major hurdle to wide adoption of fuel cell technologies. They will now allow butane, methanol and formic acid to be transported on airplanes. ...

43. 35,000 Sony notebook batteries recalled

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 31 October 2008

      The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and three major notebook manufacturer today announced a recall of about 35,000 notebook batteries (100,000 worldwide) with Sony-manufactured batteries. ...

44. Notebooks outsell desktops in the U.S. for the first time

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 29 October 2008

    ... volumes in the quarter and some, including Sony, Acer, and Lenovo, exceeded a 65% notebook ratio. "The consumer market continued to be the top driving factor in the notebook offensive but the commercial ...

45. Kindle 2 pictures leaked: Same size, redesigned package

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 05 October 2008

    ... by Sony and if we recall Plastic Logic’s fantastic reader, one clearly has to wonder whether the updates for Kindle 2 will be enough. Especially a touchscreen feature would have been nice. However, as ...

46. Sony announces pricey e-book reader

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 03 October 2008

      There has been lots of activity in the ebook reader segment lately. Following Amazon’s Kindle, we recently saw the Plastic Logic’s stunning device and it appears that Sony will also try to take ...

47. Sony intros ultra-expensive ultra-portable notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 23 September 2008

      If you like the idea of a compact notebook, but simply don’t want to accept the compromises a netbook will bring, Sony will have something for you. Of course, for a lot more dough than the $350 ...

48. 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone SoC (and 5 why it won't last)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 19 September 2008

    ... to the existing audio playback chips. Future iPhone will have killer graphics, no question about it. In fact, future iPhone will render Nintendo DS and Sony PSP obsolete and turn Apple into a key player ...

49. Sony unleashes two more Blu-ray laptops

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Friday, 12 September 2008

    Sony on Friday introduced two new Blu-ray equipped notebooks. The Sony Vaio NS and the Sony Vaio CS join the popular Vaio family. The Vaio NS comes equipped with a 15.4-inch widescreen display, a 2GHz ...

50. Apple rocks. And puts us to sleep.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 09 September 2008

    ... but there is no company that is a significant road block in that path. Microsoft is waging battles on too many fronts and Sony is focused on its PS3.    Apple posted $819 million in "other music-related ...