Topic: Consumer Electronics Sector

Sony Announces PS3 Slim

At  a press event at the GamesCom convention in Germany today, Sony announced that the long-rumored slimmer PS3 will be released September 1 for $299, a $100 price drop from its current PlayStation 3. The console will have a 120 ...READ»

Sony To Shed 8,000 Jobs As It Feels the Economic Pinch

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»

Three Ways Sony Could Make the PSP Phone Work

Sony, not content with merely bumping up the specs of the PSP into the new Go version, is considering transforming the PSP into a phone too. Is this a smart move by the consumer electronics giant, or a very dumb one? PSP Phone ...READ»

Sony's Success and the PlayStation 3 Liability

Sony posted its financials today. And despite a $583 million loss last quarter--the worst in four years--it has a net profit of $1.1 billion for the last year. This profit comes from the strength of their film division and ...READ»

Sony Changes the Game

PlayStation zapped Nintendo and Sega to become a $5 billion video game juggernaut. The lesson: to win big, make your own rules.READ»

Is This the Kindle Killer?

Plastic Logic was in the news just yesterday for its partnership with Barnes and Noble, but today it's also revealed a tie-up with AT&T that directly pitches it against Amazon's Kindle. And, just possibly, for much more than ...READ»

Innovation Now!

Conventional wisdom says to get back to basics.

Conventional wisdom says to cut costs.

Conventional wisdom is doomed.

The winners are the innovators who are making bold thinking an everyday part of doing business.READ»

Inventing from the Inside Out

On August 2, 1985, as Delta flight 191 approached Dallas-Fort Worth airport, it was rocked by wind shear, causing the plane to crash. Aboard was Philip Estridge, the man who helped bring the IBM PC to market in record time. With ...READ»

Is it Finally Game Over?

Electronic Arts posted a substantial loss yesterday, shattering the myth of video games being a recession-proof industry.READ»

Bread and Circuits

At lunch today, I passed by an Au Bon Pain. In the window, there was an advertisement for a new turkey with cranberry chutney on ciabatta bread sandwich--their Thanksgiving special, I assume. What caught my eye was the slogan above ...READ»

Beginner's Luck

In the Internet casino, the name of the game is IPO, and the players are looking to improve their odds. Meet five high rollers who think that their systems will help them hit the jackpot.READ»

Microsoft Bets Big On Halo 3

Microsoft hopes its strategic partnerships sell not only the final installment of its Halo franchise but the Xbox 360 as well.READ»

• Halo 3's Octopus Marketing Strategy

In Today's Papers

Something for the clip file: Vivendi Agrees to Buy BMG For $2.1 Billion, Besting Rivals "Vivendi SA agreed to buy Bertelsmann AG's BMG Music Publishing business for about €1.63 billion ($2.1 billion), in a deal that makes it the ...READ»

Idea Fest

The New Business Conversation Starts Here. 23 Bright Ideas for a Stellar 2003.READ»

Plastic Logic Finally Unwraps Its Que E-Reader

Plastic Logic has been in and out of the news for months with its supposed Kindle-killing e-reader, but we really haven't seen much other than prototype tech. That's just changed, as the Que's been given a teaser unveiling. Turns out, ...READ»

JVC Releases Monster 10MP Projector

JVC [NYSE:MC] first showed off its 10-megapixel projector about a year ago, and it's just now getting around to making them available. The DLA-SH4K is about the size of a computer CPU, and sports a model name that could rival Sony ...READ»

Barnes & Noble's Technicolor Kindle Killer?

Amazon's obviously proud of its Kindle e-reader, but this morning its execs may have something to worry about: Barnes & Noble may be about to stamp on the Kindle's future hopes... with a slick color e-reader from Plastic ...READ»

A Foreign Affair

Global markets used to be an afterthought in Hollywood--not anymore.READ»

High Definition Headache

With several announcements at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas this week, the high-definition landscape has become a quagmire. The hi-def war was once a simple battle between Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD-DVD--each format ...READ»

Tools You Can't Use

First, the Concorde. And now this! The humble slide projector is on its way to becoming a dead technology. In June, the Eastman Kodak Co. will stop manufacturing its lines of the one-time office supply-closet staple. The reason for ...READ»

Patent Leader

PatentCafe recently released its list of the top 200 companies, ranked in terms of how many patents they received. Here are the top 10: International Business Machines Corporation 3,254 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - ...READ»

Sony, For the Win?

Despite the criticism they have faced, the analysts at Datamonitor believe Sony will regain their position as leader in the video game industry, with 75 million units sold worldwide by 2010. As I stated in a previous article, Sony's ...READ»

Barnes & Noble's Plastic Logic E-Reader to Rival Amazon's

Barnes and Noble just revealed that it's upcoming e-reader is the one from Plastic Logic that we've long heard about. Which means the Kindle may have a decent competitor on the scene.After all, Plastic Logic's e-reader is the most ...READ»

Tech Jobocalypse Spreads as More Big Names Shed Jobs

Microsoft's 5,000 laid-off employees are being joined by thousands more, this time from Texas Instruments, Sprint Nextel, Philips, Intel and tech giant IBM. The fact that Big Blue itself is shedding jobs is an indicator of just how ...READ»

Motorola's Do-Or-Die Phone Leaked

It's well known within the wireless industry that Motorola [NYSE:MOT] is perhaps on its last leg; with an abysmal balance sheet and few consumer successes of late, company board has given themsevles an ultimatum. If their next big ...READ»