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1. ARM accelerates Android mobile development

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ...  Midnight shoppers queue for Droid Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view Motorola and Verizon trundle out Droid smartphone Google intros Android ...

2. Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 03 November 2009

   Sony Ericsson has debuted the Xperia X10 Android phone. Sony Ericsson has debuted the Xperia X10 Android phone. The device, previously codenamed "Rachel," is capable of automatically recognizing connections ...

3. Sony Ericsson touts sleek and sexy Aino phone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   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 ...

4. Universal phone chargers won't save the planet

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   ... 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Startup goes head on against Kindle, Sony

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 07 October 2009

   ... in Paris: "We're not competing in an entrenched market. We think that Sony has recognized there are some opportunities in this market."He showed a prototype of the light slim reader and said txtr intended ...

7. Sony's PSP Go is go

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 01 October 2009

   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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Point Grey debuts USB 3.0 digital video camera

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Friday, 18 September 2009

   ... showcase the "world's first" SuperSpeed USB-enabled digital video camera at the 2009 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. The prototype camera utilizes a 3 megapixel (MP) Sony IMX036 CMOS image ...

10. Sony marketing campaign plumbs new depths

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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. ...

13. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ...  Richard Templeton 5 ST Microelectronics Carlo Bozotti 6 Renesas Technology Katsuhiro Tsukamoto 7 Sony Howard Stringer 8 Qualcomm Paul Jacobs 9 Hynix Kim Jong-cap ...

14. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 19 July 2009

    ... was clear that Toshiba is covering its bases just in case HD DVD would fail. By the way, Sony did the same through a joint venture with NEC, which guaranteed the company access to HD DVD manufacturing ...

15. IBM sued over DRAM patents

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 17 July 2009

    ... Oki, Panasonic, Winbond, Sony, Samsung, Hynix, TSMC, Infineon, ProMOS, Powerchip and Micron. ...

16. 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 ...

17. PS3 slim and price cut rumors surface again

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    ... this month, along with a long expected price cut. Both rumors seem very credible, especially since Sony has to cut the PS3’s price and since it can shrink the size of the PS3 box due to a much less ...

18. 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, ...

19. Sony showcases PS3 synching phone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 28 May 2009

    Sony Ericsson has unveiled the Aino - a mobile phone that allows users to remotely access media content on PS3 consoles. The Aino also features Media Home, an application that transfers media to the ...

20. Can Palm or Zune beat Apple?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Thursday, 21 May 2009

    ... performed reasonably well in the market and still eclipses the Sony PlayStation 3 in almost every category and has richer games than the very successful Wii.    However, the iPod market has ...

21. Man claims he owns biggest US corporations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 29 April 2009

    ... 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, ...

22. No webcast to be allowed in RIAA Case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 17 April 2009

    ... Warner Brothers, Sony BMG, and other companies involved in the hearing petitioned against the ruling, citing a law which states that "except as specifically provided in these rules or by order of the court, ...

23. Skype's mobile assault: iPhone client due tomorrow, Blackberry in May

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 30 March 2009

    ... available on a range of Nokia-branded devices. Java-based client works on more than 100 other Java-enabled mobile phones from Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG. by going to the Skype website ...

24. 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 ...

25. 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 ...

26. Chip industry suffers painful fourth quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 March 2009

    ... -14.2%), Sony (#7, -13.7%) and Renesas (#6, -12.3%). “It’s not always good to be the king, as shown by the results of most of the top semiconductor suppliers in 2008,” said Dale Ford, senior vice president, ...

27. Nokia's iPhone beater has rocky U.S. launch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    Challenging the iPhone is apparently easier said than done. RIM’s Blackberry Storm has plenty of software and interface issues, SonyEricsson’s Xperia X1 is way too expensive and those who ...

28. Blu-ray gets simplified licensing

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 27 February 2009

    ... licensing will become much easier. Panasonic, Philips and Sony announced that they have agreed to create a "one-stop-shop" product license company for Blu-ray, which should positively impact the availability ...

29. Apple absent from MWC, but iPhone still on everyone's lips

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Wednesday, 18 February 2009

    ... (UCS) initiative, was appealing enough to unite the GSMA and 17 industry heavy-weights, including AT&T, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile, Vodafone and others. However, the idea ...

30. 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 ...

31. The P-Series Vaio fits in your pocket, after you empty your wallet

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 06 February 2009

    Sony has determined its Vaio P Series Lifestyle PC is not a member of the netbook category, as the company feels it possesses much greater capabilities than the majority of netbooks on the market. They ...

32. Up next for Apple TV: Networked cable television

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 February 2009

    ... the technology, including AMD, Cisco, Intel, Sony and Toshiba. The software platform enables cable's interactive services to be deployed across different devices via set-top boxes or enabled digital TVs ...

33. 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 ...

34. UPDATED: Blu-ray sales quadrupled in 2008

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... players in the United States, including 6 million Sony PlayStation 3 units. In the same three-year timeframe after release, DVD players in the 1990s totaled only 5.4 million. If Sony PS3s are excluded, ...

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

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 08 January 2009

      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 ...

36. 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 ...

37. 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 ...

38. 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 December 2008

      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 ...

40. Playstation Home beta to launch tomorrow

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 10 December 2008

      Sony today announced that Playstation Home will finally launch as an open beta tomorrow. Designed as a virtual world and social networking platform for Playstation 3 owners, it  has been ...

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

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 02 December 2008

    ... 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 ...

42. Sony schedules GT5 for Christmas 2009, prays for a miracle

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

    ... of the current-gen console battle: A Spanish Sony executive recently said that GT5 will finally be launched in the Christmas time frame – that is the good news. The bad news is that it will be Christmas ...

43. 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. ...

44. Microsoft’s Zune phone rumor back again, this time with Tegra

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... of such a device could outperform even Sony's PSP and position a Zune phone as the best mobile computing/communication/gaming device. The problem, of course, remains that such a product would anger many ...

45. Sony Ericsson launches Walkman Wi-Fi cellphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 06 November 2008

    Launched today in conjunction with the MTV Europe Music Awards, Sony Ericsson has announced the W705 Walkman phone and the Wireless Home Audio System MBS-900. Both are expected to make an appearance ...

46. Sony NEC announces 8x Blu-ray writer

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    Sony just announced an 8x Blu-ray writer in Europe.  The BWU-300S burns single and dual layer BD-R media a speed of 288 Mb/s or 36 MB/s. At least in theory, this speed will allow users to fill an ...

47. 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 ...

48. Sony to transition to 9 megapixel movies, eyes 3D cinema

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 03 October 2008

      1080p is yesterday: Sony gets more aggressive in promoting next-generation movie theater technologies, including 4K resolution movies as well as a new 3D adaptor for its high-end 4K projectors, which ...

49. Nintendo preps a new sub-$189 DS

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 29 September 2008

      Following on the heels of Sony’s recently announced update for the Playstation Portable, Nintendo said it will be refreshing its DS mobile gaming console. The pimped DS is scheduled to be introduced ...

50. Top 10 Mobile Phone Screwups

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 26 September 2008

    ... 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 ...