Sony BMG has been stung with a $1 million fine this week by the U.S government in a legal case centering on violations of federal rules protecting children online.
Sony improperly allowed children under 13 to register on its ...READ»
Sony's new demonstration Hana-Akari lighting unit contains a neat innovation: Dye-sensitized solar power generating cells that allow for different colors and patterns to be designed into the light-capturing surface.The ...READ»
The faltering gobal ecomony has affected a pretty big target today--Sony [SNE] has announced a number of measures designed to "strengthen its corporate structure and bolster profitability across the Sony Group." Read: cut costs ...READ»
On Black Friday, Microsoft's Xbox 360 console outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 by three to one. That puts the 360 over 25 million systems sold worldwide, surpassing the sales of the original Xbox -- and in only three years.READ»
LG [LGERF.PK] looks as if it’s prepared to challenge Nokia [NOK] and Sony [SNE] for the title of most camera-capable mobile phone. First came the KC920, nicknamed the Renoir, and now a new little-brother model: the just-announced ...READ»
If you're short on space, Sony's [SNE] JS1 all-in-one PC just might make your Soho studio apartment feel a little roomier. The 20.1-inch display is big enough for any gaming, light video or photo editing that you might want to do, ...READ»
For those power users who need incredible screen real estate and a big chunk of hard drive space -- video and photo professionals, here's looking at you -- the new Sony [SNE] Type A and AW Vaio laptops might be a tempting option. ...READ»
Software company Nero announced today a new product called LiquidTV that will allow consumers to turn there Windows PCs into TiVo [TIVO] digital video recorders. Just as they would on a TiVo set-top box, users will be able to pause, ...READ»
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and in honor of that, Sony [SNE] is releasing a special-edition Vaio in two models to commemorate awareness. The models will both be light pink, the trademark color of the traditional breast ...READ»
Billing it as the "world's lightest Blu-ray notebook," Sony [SNE] announced today its new TT series notebook. The device will come housed in a carbon fiber chassis, and weigh just 2.8 pounds. It will sport an 11.1-inch ...READ»
SanDisk [SNDK] is betting that you miss going into a store and buying music the old fashioned way. Well, not the "old-fashioned" way, exactly -- but on memory cards instead of CDs. Memory cards packed with DRM-free music, ...READ»
Last week saw the announcement of a cool Sony [SNE] boombox that inahles your iPod as if it were one of its own organs. Now there's word that there are several more iPod dock boomboxes on the way from Sony, though the next few are ...READ»
Lots of boomboxes have iPod docks, but none swallow your iPod so completely as Sony's [NYSE:SNE] new ZS-S4iP. Naturally, Sony found a new way to make their product names impossible to remember -- use lowercase AND capital letters, ...READ»
While there's no telling if patents will ever lead to actual devices, an interesting one was discovered this week, filed by Creative [OTC:CREAF]. The diagrams show something a great deal more capable than a normal PMP (or portable ...READ»
Sony [NYSE:SNE] has been producing all-in-one media PCs for a while now, but they've been alternately very cool mashups and very poorly executed technological abortions. Thankfully for mankind, some of the new Viaos are looking like ...READ»
According to HD Guru, Sony [NYSE:SNE] is planning to drop the price of its BDP-S350 Blu-ray player. Right now it sells for about $400, and they're cutting that by a quarter, which I believe makes it... purple. Or $300. That price ...READ»
At the Leipzig games conference today, Sony [NYSE:SNE] shocked the gaming community by announcing a new PSP game player with a host of improvements over the previous iteration, as well as a new version of the PlayStation III. ...READ»
Some objects don't beg for reinvention, and it would have seemed that the venerable TV cabinet was one of them. Perhaps not, ventures Sony [NYSE:SNE], who has announced a wired-up TV stand that it's calling an "invisible home ...READ»
Despite the popularity of the Nintendo [TYO:7974] DS in the United States, Japanese buyers are apparently bored with the device and sales are sinking (especially in comparison to Sony's [NYSE:SNE] PSP). According to Wedbush Morgan ...READ»
E3, the biggest annual week-long gaming conference on Earth, kicked off on Monday, July 14 in Los Angeles. On the minds of many was the next installment of the Final Fantasy franchise, as many bloggers and fans expected some sort of ...READ»
Every summer at the E3 videogame event the big 3 platform holders have press conferences to try to capture the attention of gaming journalism, mainstream media, and the public. How did they fare this year? All three conferences held ...READ»
Sony's [NYSE:SNE] cheery little Internet companion, the mylo 2, is getting an extensive upgrade that has the potential to bring it into some semblance of relevance in the consumer tech world. Like many of Sony's odd pet projects, ...READ»
Most people think the Apple iPod was a groundbreaking product but the real innovation was iTunes. Without a legal and easy place to get all of your music – or nearly all of your music – the iPod would have just been a nice mp3 ...READ»
Greenpeace International released its latest 'Guide to Greener Gadgets' this week. Nintendo came in right at the bottom, with a score of just 0.8 points out of 10, scoring zero on all e-waste criteria.
The quarterly guide ...READ»
