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1. Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the "best" FPS games

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... the Xbox 360 hasn't had a lot of hot exclusive action lately," opined Sterling. "This year, Sony has had Killzone 2, Uncharted 2, Critter Crunch, inFAMOUS, Demon's Souls, all sorts of exclusives that ...

2. Sony Vaio AC adapters recalled in shock scare

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sony has issued a safety recall for AC adapters for its Vaio desktops and docking stations. Around 69,000 of the faulty units are believed to be in use. Sony has issued a safety recall for AC adapters ...

3. Universal phone chargers won't save the planet

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... the scheme isn't mandatory, although some manufacturers such as Sony Ericsson have already signed up. Indeed, the cynical might suggest that the whole scheme rather smacks of a desperate marketing scheme ...

4. Sony's PSP Go is go

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Sony’s PSP Go has launched with new firmware that could be the way games machines are going - it can talk to a mobile phone via Bluetooth to establish a WiFi or 3G Internet connection. Sony’s PSP Go ...

5. Playstation ad offends Nigeria

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Playstation maker Sony has pulled an advertisement which has offended the Nigerian government. Playstation maker Sony has pulled an advertisement which has offended the Nigerian government. The advert, ...

6. Sony marketing campaign plumbs new depths

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Consumer electronics giant Sony can surely afford to hire the sharpest brains around. How, then, do we explain the sheer Jeffdamned awfulness of its new online marketing campaign? Consumer electronics ...

7. Exclusive content boosts game sales

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... of the Xbox 360, a large improvement for Sony over the average 66/34 split for multi-platform release titles in North America."Divnich also explained that sales of Madden NFL 10 were expected to decline ...

8. TVs set to go 3D this year

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     Three-D televisions could be about to take off, following the announcement that the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is to support the format. Meanwhile, Sony is expected to announce a range of ...

9. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google others sued over patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... Quicklogic, Freescale, Texas Instruments, Google, T Mobile, HTC, Apple, Sony, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Philips, LG Electronics, Research in Motion, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Nvidia, AMD, Dell, AT&T, Verizon, ...

10. Sony adds speakers to new Walkman range

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sony has launched the S Series Walkman Video MP3 player, with built-in stereo speakers to allow users to inflict their taste on those around them. San Diego, CA - Sony has launched the S Series Walkman ...

11. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 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 ...

12. PC industry staggering back - reports

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

13. Sony Ericsson aims phone at angry mistresses, wives

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    If money is tight, target those with loads of it. This is obviously the design criteria behind the new Jalou and Jalou by Dolce&Gabbana handsets just announced by Sony Ericsson. If money is tight, ...

14. Sony camera decides when to take snaps

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sony's new Party-shot cameras can now do everything automatically - including deciding when to take pictures. San Diego (CA) - Sony's new Party-shot cameras can now do everything automatically - including ...

15. Teen tells Morgan Stanley the obvious

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... 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 ...

16. There's a big hole in China's Green Dam

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... available for Windows PCs. There is no Linux or Mac version and no sign of one on the horizon. While Sony rather cravenly folded earlier this week and announced it would ship the software, the Apple ...

17. Wii expected to dominate global console market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... How Ancillary Revenues Can Extend The Console Cycle," also hypothesized that the PS3 is likely to capture significant market share - or second place - due to Sony's "victory" in the high definition DVD ...

18. Game sales fall sharply as recession bites

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... consumers are hoping for a price cut.  Xbox 360 sales dropped five percent, while Sony's (SNE) PS3 sales plummeted 37 percent. Games sales dropped to $448.9 million. One solid performer was UFC ...

19. Sony wants you to move up from point and shoot cameras

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sony has launched three new digital SLR cameras aimed at first-time buyers looking to step up from point-and-shoot cameras. San Diego, CA - Sony has launched three new digital SLR cameras aimed at first-time ...

20. Garmin Nuvifone delayed, again

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... our favorite iPhone beater contenders, right next SonyEricsson’s Xperia X1. Our initial excitement has subsided, and both phones did not turn out to be what we would have hoped for. The X1 is way too expensive ...

21. Dozens of companies sued over Android name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Atheros, Broadcom, Ericsson, Intel, Marvell Semiconductor, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Sirf Technology, Synaptics, Texas Instruments, Asustek, IITC, Huawei, LG Electronics, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, ...

22. Man claims he owns biggest US corporations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... is suing - ready for this - Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Chase Bank, Cable TV Network, CNN, NBC, ABC. Food Network, Toon, AMC, General Electric, McDonalds, Starbucks, Subway, Yahoo, Google, Sony, Capital One, ...

23. No recession here: NPD says U.S. gaming industry in good health

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... should be considered a major milestone. Although the current generation of consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all feature online support and expose this functionality to game developers, it took ...

24. Sony exec claims Xbox lacks longevity, PS3 destined to finish first

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      Sony's Computer Entertainment chairman, Kazuo Hirai, has expressed strong feelings and opinions regarding the gaming console industry. Hirai feels that the PlayStation 3 is well on its way to outselling ...

25. IBM again top US patent holder, vows to go after lesser claims

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... In order, #3 Canon had 2114, #4 Microsoft had 2030, #5 Intel had 1776, #6 Matsushita (now part of Panasonic Corp) had 1745, #7 Toshiba had 1609, #8 Fujitsu had 1494, #9 Sony had 1485 and #10 HP had 1424. IBM ...

26. CES 2009: Creative Goes Sound Blaster Happy for iTunes

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      Creative is getting deeper into iTunes/iPods territory as the likes of it and Sony continue to concede to Apple's iPod dominance. The latest evidence to support the “if you can't beat them, join ...

27. RIAA changes tactics, wants ISPs to help fight music pirates

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is reporting today that music companies and associations, like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), will stop going after music pirates directly. No longer ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 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 ...

29. E For All, still sucks after two years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Sony didn’t show up. Studios like THQ and Take-Two also bowed out. Interestingly enough, Nintendo had enough faith in the convention last year to be the main exhibitor. E for All started on Friday and ...

30. Sony shows off transparent, bendable OLED displays

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Researchers from Sony and the Max Planck Institute have demonstrated a flexible display capable of holding color images. While simplistic in form, the proof of concept demo brings prmises fo the ...

31. $1000 will buy you a Kodak OLED wireless picture frame

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      With the likes of Sony continuing to push the production of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED), it is no wonder we are seeing this display technology push into related consumer electronics categories. ...

32. Sony could be cutting their Blu-ray player prices by $100

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Los Angeles (CA) – Blu-ray player prices could be trending lower, much lower, according to the folks at Videobusiness.com.  They report anonymous sources saying the Sony BDP-S350 Blu-ray player will ...

33. Sony offers up new HDV prosumer handycam

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      Sony's got a couple of new HDV cameras it is announcing today. The one of interest to prosumers like you and I is the HDR-FX1000, priced at around $3200. Sony says the HDR-FX1000 is its first ...

34. Sony showcases 24.6-megapixel full frame DSLR

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      Sony's got itself a new α (alpha) DSLR today which the company says is its first full-frame model. It is called the DSLR-A900 and the body alone will cost you around $3000 with related accessories. ...

35. Sony Ericsson dishes out SDK for Xperia X1 smartphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      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 are ...

36. New Sony DJ system now in love with Apple’s iPods

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      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 had ...

37. 5 million iPhone 3Gs and 3 million Macs this quarter, analysts estimate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... (Dell: 22%, Sony: 8%, HP: 6%, Gateway: 3%). Three years ago, 46% planned on buying Dell laptop and only 17% a Mac. "Apple computers seem to have a cachet with college students that other brands of computer ...

38. Overclocking Nehalem “almost as good as having a second graphics card” - Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Intel loaded up Sony Vegas 8 with a 1 GB video file in less than five seconds.  They also demoed a picture and video viewer that organizes photos/videos based on calendar date.  You can zoom ...

39. Symbian and Android to make love, not war

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... said it will 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. ...

40. Microsoft exec says Xbox 360 will outsell the PS3 - update

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... United States.  The Wii sold 675,000 units in May, while Sony sold 208,700 PS3 consoles. Of course monthly sales figures only show one side of the coin.  The installed base for all three consoles ...

41. Blu-ray players taking aim at $300

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... we spotted is Sony’s BDP-S300 for $359.99 (down $40 as part of a closeout) and Panasonic’s DMP-BD30K for $449.99 (down $50) at Circuit City. Best Buy is offering a house-brand Insignia player for $329.99, ...

42. Microsoft director calls Nintendo Wii a novelty

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, told Gamasutra that the Sony PlayStation 3 is the arch nemesis of the 360.  He added that the 360 had more hard core hardware, something that gamers would graduate to from ...

43. PlayStation 3 system update 2.4 impressions

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Now there's a surprise: Everyone says Sony's servers are getting hammered, but I just sucked the entire update down through a high latency one-point-five Mbps satellite straw in all of 15 minutes. The ...

44. Outrage over physics drivers: Is Nvidia guilty?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... games (NovodeX and Meqon APIs) today, Sony has licensed PhysX SDK as the official physics engine for Playstation 3 console, Microsoft licensed PhysX for their own Robotics Studio and the list goes on. ...

45. Sony games boss says PS3 will overtake others

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    London (England) - The president of Sony Computer Entertainment Kaz Hirai says that the company has "only really begun to scratch the surface" when it comes to the PS3, and is confident that it will overtake ...

46. PS3 projected to push past Xbox 360 in March

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    March consoles sales in the US have not been released yet, but analyst Michael Pachter predicts that once the numbers are in, the Playstation 3 will jump past the Xbox 360, but will be far away from ...

47. Adobe seeks to unify digital video formats with CinemaDNG

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... and slow video creation.  We at TG Daily have first-hand experience with this problem as we capture video on both Final Cut and Sony Vegas-equipped computers.  Video files captured in Final Cut ...

48. Scientists create non-flammable lithium-ion battery

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Scientists in Germany have made a breakthrough in one of the biggest expanding markets in the battery industry: lithium-ion.  With the massive Sony battery recall last year and ever-growing concerns ...

49. Next PSP firmware to have added PS1, PS3 functionality

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sony has released details for the next firmware update to its handheld PSP system, bringing more functionality to the Playstation 3 "remote play" feature and also more customization for playback of Playstation ...

50. Are 3D movie theaters finally becoming a reality?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a movie ticket, if there is a special experience such as smaller rooms with only 40 comfortable chairs involved. But what about movie technology? We recently heard about Sony’s 8.8 megapixel projectors, ...