When the name of the game is escape, one gamer's boredom is another gamer's boon.
The job toll continued Tuesday, as Sony Corp. and five other companies announced cuts totaling nearly 15,000 positions.
There's general agreement that Sony stumbled out of the gate with the PlayStation 3.
Sony has come a long way since the release of the NW-MS11 Network Walkman.
Computer makers are recalling 100,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony Corp. after 40 reports of overheating
Sony Corp.'s quarterly profit plunged 72 percent as a surging yen wiped out the benefits of strong flat-panel TV and PlayStation 3 sales, as well as box office revenue from the movie "Hancock."
World stock markets tumbled Friday on growing alarm that a global recession will ravage corporate profits
With its 14-inch display, the Sony Vaio CR510 sits right in the middle of Sony's laptop lineup, which runs from the 11-inch Vaio TZ to the 17-inch Vaio AR line. We happen to believe that a 14-inch laptop resides in the sweet spot, offering the optimal balance between usability and portable for the majority of users.
Two rifle-bearing lads enter what looks like an abandoned building. They are nervous, for good reason. Snarling vampires attack. There is violence. There is gore. There is even a heart-tugging moment when one of the humans finds his missing girlfriend - only to discover that she too is now a blood-thirsty creature of the night.
ony Corp. is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of a wiring flaw that could cause overheating
When the name of the game is escape, one gamer's boredom is another gamer's boon.
The job toll continued Tuesday, as Sony Corp. and five other companies announced cuts totaling nearly 15,000 positions.
There's general agreement that Sony stumbled out of the gate with the PlayStation 3.
Sony has come a long way since the release of the NW-MS11 Network Walkman.
Computer makers are recalling 100,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony Corp. after 40 reports of overheating
Sony Corp.'s quarterly profit plunged 72 percent as a surging yen wiped out the benefits of strong flat-panel TV and PlayStation 3 sales, as well as box office revenue from the movie "Hancock."
World stock markets tumbled Friday on growing alarm that a global recession will ravage corporate profits
With its 14-inch display, the Sony Vaio CR510 sits right in the middle of Sony's laptop lineup, which runs from the 11-inch Vaio TZ to the 17-inch Vaio AR line. We happen to believe that a 14-inch laptop resides in the sweet spot, offering the optimal balance between usability and portable for the majority of users.
Two rifle-bearing lads enter what looks like an abandoned building. They are nervous, for good reason. Snarling vampires attack. There is violence. There is gore. There is even a heart-tugging moment when one of the humans finds his missing girlfriend - only to discover that she too is now a blood-thirsty creature of the night.
ony Corp. is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of a wiring flaw that could cause overheating
Sony says it is recalling 440,000 units of Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to faulty parts that could trigger overheating.
Bertelsmann AG will sell its 50-percent stake in Sony BMG to Sony Corp. in a $900 million deal
As Sony and Samsung continue to battle for LCD supremacy, Sony is trickling down previously premium features to its less expensive models.
Independent music group Impala said Monday it has appealed the decision by European Union regulators to approve the combination of the music units of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG
Sony has always been a go-to brand for people who don't mind paying more for HDTVs, or just about anything else for that matter, and the company's least-expensive 2008 32-inch HDTV, the KDL-32M4000, exemplifies the trend.
Although the headphone market continues to burgeon with new models, it can be surprisingly tough to find a decent, fitness-friendly pair.
The Sony NWZ-A720 Walkman series is a subtle evolution of the NWZ-A810 series we enjoyed in 2007. This year, Sony is treating us with a larger screen and a more assertive design, offered in 4GB ($149), 8GB ($199), and 16GB ($299).
With its 14-megapixel CCD, flip-up LCD, sensor-shift image stabilizer, and built-in wireless flash controller, the feature-packed Sony Alpha DSLR-A350 seems like a cornucopia of photographic goodness for the budget shopper.
I used to think that hard-drive models would take over the camcorder market as miniDV slowly faded into the horizon. I've since changed my tune after using flash-based models, especially those that include some onboard memory.
Sony is certainly no stranger to the headphone market. The company's portable line may very well be the most popular aftermarket earphones. It has quite an array of full-size "cans" as well as a decent selection of noise-canceling models.
The faceplate layout of the CDX-GT410U is standard Sony fare: a large control dial gives drivers a means of adjusting volume and navigating menus and is surrounded by a cluster of hard buttons that provide one-touch access to most of the system's features.
With its T series, Sony has an unfortunate habit of taking at least one step back for every two steps forward.
The Oscars were a non-event this year for Sony - the studio took home only one gold statue - but Sir Howard Stringer was in town with plenty to celebrate.
Sony changed quite a few details, inside and out, between last year's H5 and this year's megazooms, the Cyber-shot DSC-H9 and DSC-H7. An f/2.7-4.5 31mm-465mm 15x supersedes the 12x zoom on last year's, and the resolution kicks up a notch from 7 to 8 megapixels. Say goodbye to AA batteries and hello to a proprietary lithium ion.
Sony's 2007 flagship front projector, the VPL-VW200, uses the company's variant of LCoS, called SXRD, and like most high-end projectors, it features a native resolution of 1080p. Those specs and jargon may well impress your buddies, but the real story is in the picture.
U.S. statistics in 2005 revealed that less than 20 percent of the country's used or unwanted electronics were recycled. Now companies likes Sony, Nokia and Hewlett Packard are creating drop-off centers there to make it easier to properly dispose of their products.
Sony displayed Monday the first television for the commercial market with an organic light-emitting diode display it said symbolized the revival of the faltering Japanese electronics maker.
Sony may soon compete directly with Apple and its popular iPods and iTunes, producing its own movie download service and products, company officials said Tuesday.
Acknowledging its proprietary audio technology was a marketplace flop, Sony Corp. is shuttering its Connect digital music store and will open its portable media players to other formats.
The company that invented the CD, the Walkman and the PlayStation will soon become an environmental pioneer, too: Sony says it will offer free recycling of all its products in the United States.
It was August 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany.
Exclusive release arrangements, plus aggressive price cuts for high-def DVD players, are designed to persuade consumers to finally choose between HD DVD or Blu-ray
3M Co. said Monday it has reached agreement in patent settlement with Sony Corp. over the technology in a type of battery used in laptop computers and cell phones.
Sharing a perch at the top of Sony's HD prosumer camcorder line, the Handycam HDR-SR7 manages to combine a raft of cutting-edge capabilities without forgetting that its primary function is capturing high-quality HD video.
Nintendo Co. Ltd. shot past Panasonic maker Matsushita in market value on Wednesday and closed in on Sony Corp. as investors watched it unseat Sony as unrivalled king of the game industry.
Sony's 2007 Bravia home theater in a box (HTIB) systems represent something of a departure from the company's popular Dream systems.
Lasting lessons from business leaders who've gone to the great corner office in the sky.
Entertainment giant Sony has been branded irresponsible for using a cathedral from a city plagued by gun crime in a violent video game.
Western companies will soon get a sneak peek at an unwelcome coming attraction: Chinese antitrust law. They're hoping it's not a horror show. A Shanghai court heard evidence in January in an antitr...
It's not every day that you see successful corporations humiliate themselves. But it happens. In the case of high tech, it usually occurs when a company can't resist the urge to launch a moon shot,...
Remember these dumbest moments? Here are some of the highlights of stupidity in 2005.
1. Tadd Fujikawa Wasn't it refreshing to see a teenage golf prodigy actually having fun?
No Tiger, no Phil, too much Michelle. That's the reductionist version of this week's Sony Open, but if you look hard enough there are plenty of good stories at this year's first full-field event. Here are the players I'll be keeping an eye in the shadow of Diamond Head:
A well-regarded computer and consumer-electronics maker plunges into the competitive wireless market with a combination music player/cell phone. The company's loyal users can barely wait to try the new gadget, and analysts predict the device will deliver on the long-promised marriage of music and mobility.
Sony said there is no need to change its targets for worldwide shipments of its PlayStation 3 game console.
Horrible Halloween picks for the ghastliest gizmos, scariest software and most terrifying technologies of the year.
Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment of Sony, ranks No. 41 on Fortune's 2006 list of 50 Most Powerful Women.
Stocks were poised to one last shot at breaking the all-time closing record Friday, helped by strong earnings news from the tech sector and despite news of a consumer spending slump in August.
Sony Corporation ranks no. 65 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $66.0 billion in revenues, down .9% from the previous year. The Tokyo, Japan-based company was ranked no. 47 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $1.1 billion, down 28.4% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
Stock futures bounced up Tuesday after two key economic reports eased inflation fears, but suggested further cooling of the housing market.
Sony has been in the headlines a lot lately...but not for good reasons.
One day last July, two naked men lowered themselves into a hot spring in Hakone, a Japanese tourist town known for its beautiful lake and views of Mount Fuji. One was a pallid, curly-haired 63-year...
One day last July, two naked men lowered themselves into a hot spring in Hakone, a Japanese tourist town known for its beautiful lake and views of Mount Fuji.
The headlines all screamed of a musical detente between Apple and Sony. But the headlines got it wrong. Sony is in fact adding support for AAC, a digital-music file format also used by Apple. But Sony isn't adopting FairPlay, the digital rights management system Apple uses in its iTunes Music Store to prevent piracy. Still, Sony's move will make it easier for iTunes users to move at least part of their music libraries onto Sony music players. Any songs they have ripped from CDs onto their hard drives in the unprotected AAC format -- the default setting in iTunes software -- will now play without requiring cumbersome recoding.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Electronics is counting on profitable devices like flat screen TVs and Vaio computers to help bankroll the slow, pricey development of growth gadgets like the Blu-ray next-generation DVD player, its president said Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A major video game conference this week could prove pivotal for a multibillion dollar war over high-definition DVD standards brewing in Hollywood.
Howard Stringer calls himself the "Sony warrior." Now he's got himself a war. On March 28, Toshiba will be the first to enter the high-def-videodisc battlefield when it launches a $499 HD-DVD playe...
Digital reading devices were hardly bestsellers when they landed on the scene a few years ago, but Sony is betting that its newest entry will be the iPod of ink. The Sony Reader will be released ea...
At least he didn't sugarcoat it. Last year, when CEO Howard Stringer announced his restructuring plan for the beleaguered giant, he compared Sony's plight to that of the Russian army defending Moscow against Napoleon.
Happy Friday, folks ...
What did it take to offend us in 2005? Svedka the party robot and her fur-bikini-wearing friends didn't raise many eyebrows, but a spoof of congressional indecency hearings got yanked off the air after one showing.
For a circular piece of foil encased in plastic, it has certainly had a dramatic impact.
Q I transferred a high-interest credit-card balance to my Sony Visa card because they offered a rate of 3.99% until the transfer balance is paid. A few months later I mailed my check as usual, but ...
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HAS ALways been a nasty place. In the early days it was dominated by rogues like Morris Levy, the record company boss who stuffed his pockets with his artists' royalties and cons...
Some of the biggest electronics manufacturers say they will repair a defective chip found on more than 80 models of digital cameras and other digital devices, but only if the chip becomes faulty, according to a report published Thursday.
It's been a long seven months for Sir Howard Stringer. Since being named Sony's first non-Japanese CEO back in March, Stringer, 63, has thrown himself into the daunting task of reviving the struggl...
Asian markets closed mostly lower on Thursday on Wall Street losses and rising oil prices as another major hurricane threatened the heart of the U.S. oil industry.
It's been about six months since Sony did the unthinkable and tapped a non-Japanese executive to lead it.
I know cops don't get paid what they deserve, but you'd think a Manhattan homicide detective would be able to afford skivvies.
EverQuest gamers spend an estimated $40 million annually on digitized weapons and characters. But for years, Sony Online Entertainment, the game's publisher, has decried the practice. Having failed...
To reach the lab where IBM, Sony, and Toshiba engineers have spent four years and more than $400 million toiling in secret on a computer chip that, if they are right, will usher in a dramatic new e...
His pivotal new CD is being released by Sony in Greece on Friday. He has a loudly cheered New York debut under his belt. And he's slated for a "summit concert" in October at the foot of the Acropolis.
Talks to unify next-generation DVD formats have stalled, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Each May new camcorders appear on the shelves of electronics stores everywhere. Why now? Father's Day, for one thing. Also, electronics companies know that between graduations, summer vacations, we...
FORTUNE's Brent Schlender talked with Howard Stringer in New York City shortly after he was named Sony's CEO. Edited excerpts:
Nobuyuki Idei was in a quandary. It was mid-January 2005, and the weary Sony Corp. CEO had just received confirmation from his chief financial officer, Katsumi Ihara, of what many around headquarte...
Often imitated but never replicated, Sony's "Gran Turismo" racing simulation series -- which has sold nearly 40 million units worldwide since 1988 -- is revving up its most ambitious sequel to date.
Sony's hiring of a Brit to try and turn the group around may be a shock.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - "EverQuest II" players are used to buying things in the game.
For Sony, it was a rare moment of candor.
Sony has an enviable brand name. But will that be enough to get consumers to buy more of the Japanese tech giant's gadgets this holiday season?
Have you read any good e-books lately? For years bookworms have been tantalized by the promise of electronic book readers that are easy to use yet are able to change their contents at the touch of ...
Kirk Kerkorian, the reclusive 87-year-old majority owner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, has crafted some of the most astounding deals in Hollywood. He has sold MGM twice, reaping billions of dollars each ...
Sony Corp. is close to an agreement to buy independent movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $5 billion, according to a published newspaper report.
Wireless TVs that fit into your pocket, sleek entertainment systems beautiful enough to hang on the wall and more dirt-cheap printers are expected to be some of the hot trends in consumer electronics this year.
Fans of "Syphon Filter" got some long-awaited good news last week. The fourth edition of the best-selling video game series was finally released for the Sony PlayStation 2.
Electronics giant Sony Corp. and another Japanese company have jointly developed a "paper DVD" that can store five times more data than a regular DVD and could offer foolproof security.
A group of disgruntled moviegoers will settle their suit out of court against a nonexistent film critic, whose glowing reviews of mediocre films prompted a class-action suit alleging filmgoers had been "tricked" into theaters.
It would be difficult to name a company more threatened than Sony by the stampeding herd of business and technological trends that make up what we call "digital convergence." CEO Nobuyuki Idei has ...
According to legend, the gods bestowed on the Japanese people three sacred gifts: a mirror, a sword, and a jade jewel. The idea of the sacred trinity persists in Japan to this day, says Sony presid...
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The CEO of gaming publisher Electronic Arts predicted Sony's new portable gaming system will launch globally before the end of the year and will cost less than many have speculated.
I know one thing: The 300 e-mails announcing product launches at the International Consumer Electronics Show are certainly rocking my inbox.
Will handheld shipments slip for the ninth straight quarter? Sony, Hewlett-Packard, and PalmOne hope for better news as IDC releases its 2003 figures on Feb. 27. Though the slide has slowed--worldw...
Buying a digital video camcorder ought to be uncomplicated. But it isn't. Nearly every camera on the market comes with more features than you would ever use, or ought to use. Leave the heavy liftin...
It's a sunny Southern California evening in mid-October at the posh South Coast Plaza shopping center in Orange County, and Sony Corp. is throwing a bash. Were you to pass by the roped-off event on...
Nearly every surface in Neal Miller's office is covered with magazines. These just arrived in the past day and a half, says Miller, manager of Fidelity's New Millennium fund, as he clears a stack of two dozen from a chair.
Sony is betting the future of its $41 billion consumer electronics business on a 15-millimeter piece of silicon.
When Howard Stringer was appointed head of Sony's U.S. operations in the spring of 1997, the prevailing wisdom was that he'd accepted a suicide mission. Eight years had passed since Sony bought Col...
Kunitake Ando is all smiles, as you would expect him to be, given that he presides over what is arguably the world's greatest and (next to Santa's workshop) most legendary toy factory. As president...
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