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1. Sony Ericsson touts sleek and sexy Aino phone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sony Ericsson has launched its sleek and sexy Aino mobile phone. The device - which allows users to remotely access media content on PS3 consoles - is also capable of transferring PC media via a standard ...

2. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... example, it sued Sony in 2001 and picked up $25,000,000 plus an agreement for the Japanese giant to license the patents. In 2003 it filed suit against Canon, Casio, Seiko, Epson, Fuji Photo, Fujifilm, ...

3. Sony debuts ultra-thin Vaio X notebook

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. How my Blackberry isn't crackberrying me up

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

     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 ...

6. HP notebook batteries recalled

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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  ...

7. Sony announces $1000 HDR-TG5V camcorder with GPS

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Sony announced an extremely sleek and small 1920 x 1080 HD camcorder with 4 megapixel photo resolution, 16 GB of internal flash memory, embedded GPS, minimal buttons and a touch-panel LCD display. The ...

8. The race to kill the MacBook Air is on

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 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 ...

9. CES 2009: Sony announces an iPod Touch rival - the X Series Walkman

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

     On Wednesday at CES, Sony’s Walkman line of portable media devices received a total makeover as the company announced a brand new touch-screen, Internet ready portable media player. Deemed the ...

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

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      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 ...

11. Nokia’s N97 puts Apple iPhone on the defense

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... devices that happen to include phone capability. Apple is expected to respond to the wave of new smartphones, which include the SonyEricsson Xperia X1, the Blackberry Storm, T-Mobile G1 and Nokia’s phones ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    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. ...

13. Another iPhone challenger: HTC Touch HD

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... which matches the SonyEricsson's Xperia X1, packing two and a half times more pixels than the iPhone's 320 x 480 pixel 3.5” display. There is also a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus that lets users shoot ...

14. 35,000 Sony notebook batteries recalled

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

      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. ...

15. G1 & Co.: Top 10 cellphones for your Christmas shopping list

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... gestures. Expect a price tag of about $400, excluding carrier subsidies. 2. Sony Ericsson Xperia X1: The Xperia X1 is late, but it may be worth the wait. The X1 is wrapped in a metal casing with a curved ...

16. Hot Import Nights – the ultimate photographer’s battleground Part I: Gear

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... my total time to post (the time to transfer, edit, render and upload) it might actually come out even.  With the Canon HV20, I have to rewind the tape, fire up Sony Vegas and then capture in real-time ...

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

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... 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 ...

18. Sony announces pricey e-book reader

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      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 ...

19. Top 10 Mobile Phone Screwups

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... is a target customer for Instinct if not a 13-years old kid? SonyEricsson Xperia X1: Comes too late If SonyEricsson launched Xperia X1 this summer, it could have become a huge hit and practically the ...

20. 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone SoC (and 5 why it won't last)

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... 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 ...

21. Sony recalls 73,000 Vaio TZ notebooks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      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 ...

22. Refreshed PSP to launch in Japan for $180

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      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 console, ...

23. IDF: Switchable graphics could give laptops an extra hour of battery life

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 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 the discrete chip, the laptop was ...

24. Sony to expand monthly lithium ion battery production capacity from 41 million cells to 74 million c

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    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 batteries ...

25. The five big technology trends of 2008

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... direction to all-in-one computers seems to be clear at HP, Dell, Sony, and Gateway. They all have been launching products; though Gateway’s offering didn’t does that well.  The most interesting is ...

26. MIT, Sharp and Sony make big steps in advancing fuel cell technology

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... that are available to the consumer. In what appears to be a big month for fuel cells, Sharp, Sony and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reported independently from each other significant ...

27. Sony’s new rumblepack: Worth the price?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Opinion – We have now had a few days with Sony’s new Playstation 3 controller, but are uncertain whether its new feature set justifies its high price tag. Your take?? Opinion – We have now had ...

28. Apple, Sony settle suit over battery fire

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Apple Japan and Sony have agreed to jointly pay about 1.3 million yen ($12,800) to settle a damages suit filed by a Japanese couple who argued that the husband had suffered burns after their Apple personal ...

29. 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 ...

30. TG Daily Hands-on: 4K RED One camera – Unwrapping the Lamborghini of video cameras

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... and durable HD camera. Oakley is well-known for its relationship with sports, so this wish was not too surprising. Jim's idea did not find any friends at broadcast equipment manufacturers such as Sony, ...

31. Will we ever see an iPhone killer?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... goal: RIM with its BlackBerry 9000, Samsung with its Instinct phone and SonyEricsson with the Xperia. There is a wildcard in this game, which has the potential to make a strong debut – Garmin’s Nuvifone. ...

32. VIDEO – Our Canon HG10 torture test at Hot Import Nights

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... recording fast motion.  We certainly did not see that when looking at the raw footage that was imported into Sony Vegas.  We did have some motion blur, but that is from the 24p recording mode.  ...

33. Lenovo recognized with environmental designations

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Sony Ericsson and Dell were the only other ones who scored above 7. New monitors on the list will start being shipped on April 18 with the last one hitting store shelves May 9. ...

34. Tim Sweeney, Part 2: “DirectX 10 is the last relevant graphics API”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... as Intel's research scientist] recently showed ray-tracing on a Sony UMPC, an ultraportable device equipped with a single-core processor. True, the resolution was much lower than on PCs of today, but it ...

35. VIDEO – HD camcorder shootout: Can you tell the difference? Part II

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Vimeo. Video #1 - Sony DCR-HC28 Ok video #1 was probably the easiest one to figure out as the standard definition Sony DCR-HC28. Most people recognized the standard definiton aspect ratio along with ...

36. PSP with Burnout game burns child

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... exploding.  Sony has confirmed previous reports from other users with singed PSP units.  Sony is investigating this case. ...

37. MacWorld is disappointing? Yeah right.

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... keyboard with little travel, it was painfully slow, and it was comparatively fragile.   However it also pulled an iPhone like crowd wherever it was shown.   About 5 years ago, Sony ...

38. Multiple: 2007 top ten lists

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... is from The Inquirer, where they make some predictions about what'll be up in 2008: Inventions #10 - A Sony plan for a skateboard that operates like a Segway. #9 - Digit-saving biometrics, ...

39. Samsung to show off 31" active matrix OLED display

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    ... version shown by Sony at last year's event, while using less than half the power of a traditional LED display of its size. While the 31" device is far too costly today for use in TVs, it does ...

40. Is Kindle the next big thing after the iPod?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... number of books available for the Kindle that I want to read. This is a huge improvement over the experience I had with the Sony eBook. Also, I can browse books on my PC and have them instantly delivered ...

41. Sony readies more powerful PSP battery, custom battery covers

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Right before Christmas, Sony will launch a new batter pack for the PSP that it claims doubles the playtime offered by the current battery. Foster City (CA) - Right before Christmas, Sony will launch a ...

42. Asus releases 4G sub-sub-notebook to western world, the Eee PC 701

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... 890 grams, or just under 2 lbs.  It has 3.5 hours of battery life, runs Xandros Linux, comes with 512 MB of RAM, an 802.11b/g, SD/SDHC/MMC card slots, Sony memory stick, three USB ports, VGA output, ...

43. Update: The Black Friday Shopping List

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 17” LCD & printer $199.97* Best Buy Desktop Bundle Compaq Dual Core w/ 17” LCD $399.97 Best Buy Notebook Sony  ...

44. Changing of the guard: Sony waxes while Apple wanes

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... a time when both were at the top of their game – which is the case right now as well: In the portable music player market, Apple is weakening and Sony is suddenly looking like they are getting their ...

45. Electricity generating bacteria could provide power in developing areas

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... similar designs.  In fact, the team says the entire apparatus could be constructed for $2. The idea is not so far fetched as it might seem.  Sony introduced a prototype battery in August, 2007 ...

46. Logitech pumps out Bluetooth keyboard, headset for PS3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Logitech this week launched its first Bluetooth keyboard and headset designed specifically for use with the Playstation 3. Fremont (CA) - Logitech this week launched its first Bluetooth keyboard and ...

47. Sony powers Walkman with sugar “bio battery”

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Cue up the Matrix jokes because Sony has developed a biological battery that runs on glucose. Tokyo (Japan) – Cue up the Matrix jokes because Sony has developed a biological battery that runs ...

48. AMD’s four-three strategy to beat Intel

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... Sony should own the MP3 player space given they owned the portable CD player space with the Walkman, IBM used to dominate Software, 3Com used to dominate networking, and Xerox was the dominant company ...

49. YouTube at 80 MPH with Sprint’s mobile broadband

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... hotel and convention center wi-fi.  Keynote speeches are also notorious for blocking wireless access (hello Sony, can you hear me?) and if they do have wi-fi it’s going to be insanely slow because ...

50. Sony, 3M settle suit over battery IP

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Sony and 3M announced that the two companies have reached a settlement agreement in a patent infringement suit that 3M had filed against Sony in March of this year. The patent covers intellectual property ...