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Sony's Alpha DSLRs: New Outside, Old Inside

Sony's entry into the DLSR market with the Alpha camera range has been pretty well accepted. So the tech maker went back to the lab to tweak its lineup with new units--though, perhaps, this should be called an along-grade ...READ»

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Sony PC For Music-Loving New Yorkers

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»

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Sony Announces 18.4-inch Notebook

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»

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Sony's New Boombox Eats Your iPod

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»

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Creative Brewing A Tablet PC?

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»

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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»

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Sony Announces All-in-One Media Desktops

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»

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Sony Drops Price of Blu-ray Player

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»

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Sony Announces New PSP and PS3

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»

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Sony Announces Hi-Tech TV Stand

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»

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Sony Ericsson Announces James Bond Phone

Rarely are movie-branded goods as lamely spun off as Sony Ericsson's [NYSE:SNE] new 007 phone, which is actually a limited edition C902. The phone's hardware is totally unchanged from normal production C902's, but gets two token ...READ»

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Video is Everywhere

Last week at E3, both Microsoft and Sony made announcements related to video. Microsoft announced a partnership with Netflix to make streaming video available on the Xbox 360. Microsoft also announced an expansion of the console's ...READ»

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Sony Ericsson Net Profits Fall 97%

Everyone in the mobile world had a hunch that this quarter would be a rough one for Sony's [NYSE:SNE] Sony Ericsson division, but it's safe to say that few people knew just how bad things were at the ailing phonemaker. According to ...READ»

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E3 2008: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Press Conferences

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»

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Sony Updates Mylo Device

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»

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Does Sony Need Apple’s Help?

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»

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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»

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Solar Power Goes Pretty With Sony's Patterned Solar Cells

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»

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Could Rumored "PSP Go" Save Sony's Tiny Games Machine?

Sony's PlayStation Portable has had a few tweaks and adjustments throughout its life, and if we can trust a new rumor, then it's about to undergo a radical design overhaul. If it ditches the proprietary UMD drive, as is speculated, ...READ»

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Sony Stores Expand GreenFill Electronics Recycling Effort

Electronics recycling is notoriously difficult--so difficult, in fact, that Greenpeace has an entire campaign devoted to improving it. But Sony took a giant leap forward yesterday in making recycling easier with its GreenFill ...READ»

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Sony Patents Remote Controlled Spy Car

Nintendo may have active gameplay locked up, but Sony appears to be pursuing something much more realistic: a PSP-controlled model car equipped with a camera and some extensive virtual reality software. No, it's not just ...READ»

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Sony's New HD Camcorder: World's Smallest, But Expensive

Sony's new HDR-TG5V takes the palm-held digital camcorder category to the pinnacle of the technology. The device is heralded as both the world's smallest and lightest in its class. Undoubtedly, it's a fabulous camcorder, but it ...READ»

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Sony Gaming Rumor Roundup: Price Drops, New Hardware and More [Updated]

The intertubes have been filled with speculation about an upcoming Sony announcement on its gaming strategy. The announcement is due today, and it looks like it's going to be hot news. We've had a look and rounded up the biggest ...READ»

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How Sony And Google Can Beat Amazon at the E-Book Game (Hint: Not With Out-of-Print Books)

Sony and Google joined forces today to tackle the Amazon Kindle, the current king of e-books...by releasing half a million out-of-print books for the Sony E-Reader from Google's Book Search library. Will it be an effective ...READ»

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Sony Joins the 12-Megapixel Cameraphone Bandwagon

Samsung's 12-megapixel camera-equipped smartphone was supposedly the only bloated-sensor cellphone rumored before Mobile World Congress, but it looks like Sony Ericsson wants to join the party too. It just unveiled the Idou, which ...READ»