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Topic: Sony Corporation

  
TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  Comment

Home Sweet Home

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Mar 8, 2007 at 2:18 PM

At the Game Developer's Conference yesterday, Sony's Phil Harrison gave the keynote. Sony announced a new feature for the PlayStation 3 called Home. Similar to Second Life, player's make realistic avatars. They go to a ...READ»

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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY   |  Comment

Sony's Camera Dock Automates Taking Party Photos

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Aug 6, 2009 at 6:44 AM

This is one of those ideas that's been kind of inevitable. It will be kind of useful, but it's still dreadful all the same: Sony's launching a new digital camera dock/monopod that'll automatically snap all your party ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  11 comments

HD DVD Debuts and Disappears

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Apr 21, 2006 at 2:08 PM

The next-gen HD DVD format appeared in stores this week. Toshiba introduced two players, a basic $499 model and a premium model for $799. And the machines have already sold out. The fact that the initial batch was relatively small ...READ»

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VIDEO GAMES   |  Comment

Why Games Are So Expensive, and Staying That Way

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 7, 2009 at 8:09 AM

Recent earnings reports from Sony and Nintendo prove that the video game industry is not recession proof. So why do games still cost so much money?READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  3 comments

PlayStation 3 in November

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 3:23 PM

After months of speculation, Sony announced Wednesday that the launch of its PlayStation 3 will be delayed until November. Since last summer, Sony has said the PS3 would launch in the spring. This seemed increasingly unlikely as the ...READ»

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SONY   |  Comment

Sony PRS-300, PRS-600 E-Reader Details Leak Via Service Manuals [UPDATED]

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 10:09 AM

Leaked service manuals for Sony's upcoming PRS-300 and PRS-600 e-reader devices have revealed the specs of the anticipated successors to the Sony PRS-700. Unfortunately, no pricing or release date information was included, but the ...READ»

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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS   |  Comment

Sony Vaio P Now Official: a Lifestyle PC, Not a Netbook

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jan 8, 2009 at 5:34 AM

After all that teasing, Sony's finally unwrapped the small and slim Vaio P. And as Sony's spin has it, it's not so much a netbook as a Windows Vista-running, super-widescreen "Lifestyle PC," so very sleekly designed it almost ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  2 comments

High-Definition Discs Debut

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jan 6, 2006 at 1:59 PM

The sides are lining up for the next format war. At this week's Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the two camps behind competing formats for next-generation DVDs announced their launch plans. HD-DVD players will debut in ...READ»

Pretty Solar Cells
ALTERNATIVE POWER   |  Comment

Solar Power Goes Pretty With Sony's Patterned Solar Cells

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Dec 11, 2008 at 7:50 AM

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»

ENTERTAINMENT   |  5 comments

High Def Anxiety


Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 24, 2005 at 7:45 PM

It's war! A format war! At least that's what seems to be coming down the pike, now that talks have broken down between Sony and Toshiba in their attempts to merge their two competing high definition DVD formats. Just to sum up: ...READ»

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APP STORE WARS   |  Comment

Sony Jumping on App Store Bandwagon With PSP Apps?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 6:09 AM

There's a strong rumor this morning that Sony's busy prepping a discrete part of the PlayStation Store for new games and apps that'll be directed at the PSP and PSP Go. Sounds like Sony's also jumping on the App Store ...READ»

BLOGJAM 2005   |  1 comment

Corporate Marketing Is a Conversation


Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 9, 2005 at 9:16 PM

I'm very impressed that Fast Company is opening up its server space to its audience in celebraton of the blogjam 2005. It represents an openness that we don't see much from business publications, and certainly not from the corporate ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  2 comments

Next Generation Gaming Nears

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue May 9, 2006 at 2:33 PM

As gamers everywhere know, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, begins this week, and details about the future of gaming are emerging. Last night, Sony announced that it would launch the PlayStation 3 in the U.S. and Europe on ...READ»

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COMPUTERS   |  3 comments

Sony's Netbook Vaio Pocket Surfaces Online

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Dec 26, 2008 at 6:48 AM

News and leaks online have been revealed in small spurts about a new netbook from Sony, but now an "official" leak on a Sony website has confirmed that the machine is reality. It's dubbed the Vaio Pocket, since it's supposedly sized ...READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS   |  2 comments

The Sound of Freedom?


Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Sep 6, 2006 at 7:06 PM

Today’s deal by Bertelsmann to sell its big BMG music publishing unit to Vivendi seems, at first glance, like a victory for the little guys. After all, music giants such as Sony, Warner, and EMI all wanted to buy BMG -- and the ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  3 comments

Nintendo Leads the Console Game War

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Mar 5, 2007 at 5:27 PM

There are two sites that estimate sales of video game consoles, VG Charts and Nex Gen Wars, fueling the fanboy feuds over which company has the better product. Perhaps the feuds will end now. Nintendo is estimated to have sold about ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  2 comments

High Definition Headache

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 11:52 AM

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»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  1 comment

Sony, For the Win?

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jan 4, 2007 at 11:41 AM

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»

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VIDEO GAMES   |  4 comments

Sony Announces PS3 Slim

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM

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»

MARKETING   |  7 comments

Sony Is Not Playing the PR Game

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Dec 30, 2006 at 11:33 AM

With all the Sony bashing going around lately, it's hard to find a site that isn't criticizing how Sony handled the PlayStation 3 launch. Whether it's the fact that only half the number of systems promised were available for launch ...READ»

COMPETITION   |  3 comments

Gaming Console Wars

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 5:05 PM

After first week sales, it appears as if Nintendo's Wii has beat out Sony's Playstation 3. As we reported in our online exclusive, "Sony's Risky Game," earlier this month, Sony faced serious challenges with meeting demand for its ...READ»

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PS3 SLIM   |  1 comment

PS3 Slim "Confirmed"--It's Real, Coming to GamesCon, Supposedly

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 10:40 AM

We've heard rumors for a while, but now Web site Pocket Lint is saying it's got the reliable honest-to-goodness real word on the matter: Sony's revamped skinny PlayStation 3--the PS3 Slim--is real, and it'll be announced next ...READ»

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CONSUMER PRODUCTS   |  Comment

Rumor: Sony Walkman to Rival iPod Touch

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Dec 15, 2008 at 10:29 AM

The iPod Touch (and iPhone) may have been deemed as "the best iPod ever" by Steve Jobs himself, and Apple clearly dominates the MP3 player market. But it seems Sony thinks enough is enough, and is due to release a new Walkman that...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  1 comment

Sony's Loss, Our Gain?


Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 3:48 PM

Sony execs must be longing for the good 'ole days of "batteries not included." The electronics giant announced today that profits tumbled 94 percent to $14.3 million over the July-September quarter following a global recall of 9.6 ...READ»

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COMPUTER   |  Comment

Sony Teases With Revolutionary New Laptop: Is It A Vaio Netbook?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 6:21 AM

Dell's apparently ultra-thin laptop Adamo teaser campaign from last week is joined by an even more intriguing one from Sony. It bears little more than a swishly-photographed Vaio logo on a shiny-looking black device, and the words "On ...READ»

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