These five products have one thing in common: Each started out as an idea hatched by a mid-level employee — and ended up changing a company or revolutionizing an industry. Post-it Notes Intrapreneurs: Spencer Silver and Art Fry...
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Inducts Mike Morhaime into Hall of Fame and Bestows Lifetime Achievement Award on Ken Kutaragi LAS VEGAS -- And the winner is... Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Activision, BioShock (2K Games) and The Orange Box Electronic Arts and Valve Software;...
Video: The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences will give its Lifetime Achievement Award to Ken Kutaragi, creator of the PlayStation video game console. Kutaragi will be honored for revolutionizing the global in-home entertainment market with the creation and success of the PlayStation. The launch of the original...
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Honors Industry Legend Responsible for Video Game Console Explosion CALABASAS, Calif. -- Fourth graph, last sentence, spelling of name should be corrected from "Kataragi" to "Kutaragi." The corrected release reads: FATHER OF PLAYSTATION, KEN KUTARAGI, TO RECEIVE...
TOKYO -- The chief architect of Sony's PlayStation game console stepped down Tuesday as the Japanese company struggles to defend its dominance in the video game industry and revive its reputation as an electronics pioneer. Ken Kutaragi, 56, retired as Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s chairman and group...
News from the virtual world: -- GONE DADDY GONE: Ken Kutaragi is known as "the father of the PlayStation," but his youngest offspring -- the struggling PlayStation 3 -- has turned out to be a problem child. The PS3's woes led Sony to shake up its video-game...
By Paul Sweeting I've often wondered how committed Sony Computer Entertainment chairman Ken Kutaragi was to the decision to include a Blu-ray Disc drive in every PlayStation 3 console. In his public comments, Kutaragi always referred to Blu-ray...
TOKYO AFP — Sony Computer Entertainment said that the "Father of the PlayStation," Ken Kutaragi, is stepping down as chief executive of the video game giant which is battling fierce competition from its rivals. Kutaragi, 56, will become honorary chairman of the company, which has dominated the home...
Sony's vidgame division is giving a boost to its top leadership. Kaz Hirai, prexy of Sony Computer Entertainment America, will take over as prexy of parent unit Sony Computer Entertainment, which oversees the PlayStation business worldwide. Current SCE topper Ken Kutaragi, ...
TOKYO AFP — Sony Computer Entertainment has said that the "father of the PlayStation", Ken Kutaragi, would give up the day-to-day running of the games unit which is sliding deeper into the red. Kutaragi, 58, will remain chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment and also become its chairman. But he...
On the eve of the Play-Station 3 launch, Ken Kutaragi, the head of Sony Computer Entertainment and the creator of all three generations of the hit game console, took time off to give a rare interview to NEWSWEEK's Steven Levy, via phone from Tokyo. LEVY: You believe that when game...
The hype for the Wii and PlayStation 3 is at a fever pitch, and the wild and wacky tales of these next-generation gaming consoles are pouring forth. So far, my favorite has to be Sony's Japanese launch of the PS3 on Saturday. Not only were thousands of fans disappointed by...
News from the virtual world: -- VANISHING ACT: The PlayStation 3 arrives in America this Friday -- but if last week's Japanese launch was any indicator, thousands of U.S. gamers will be going home empty-handed. At Tokyo's Bic Camera, throngs began assembling hours before the store opened...
When Sony announced that its PlayStation 3 would cost at least $500, gamers, stockholders and industry analysts were floored. They demanded to know how a game console could possibly be so expensive. One reason is something called Cell, a new kind of processor that took IBM, ...
TOKYO -- Sony Corp. said Friday it will slash the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console in Japan by 20 percent, heating up the competition in the next-generation gaming war against rivals Microsoft and Nintendo. The announcement comes just days after Microsoft Corp. announced...
TOKYO -- Sony Corp. said Friday it will slash the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console in Japan by 20 percent, heating up the competition in the next-generation gaming war against rivals Microsoft and Nintendo. The announcement comes just days after Microsoft Corp. announced...
News from the virtual world: -- BLU CHRISTMAS: It's shaping up to be a tough Christmas for anyone who's hoping to find a PlayStation 3 under the tree. Sony Computer Entertainment President Ken Kutaragi delivered the bad news, warning gamers that only half a million consoles will...
BOSTON -- The KhronosTM Group is pleased to announce the rapid industry acceptance of COLLADA, open standard XML-based digital asset exchange schema for interactive 3D applications. Originally targeted for exchange of content in a game environment, COLLADA can be effectively applied in nearly any area of 3D...
The seven HDMI Founder companies (Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Panasonic, Royal Philips Electronics, Silicon Image, Inc., Sony Corp., Thomson, Inc. and Toshiba Corp.) has released a major enhancement of the High-Definition Multimedia Interface HDMI specification, the de facto standard digital...
Somehow, people were still caught off guard by Sony's formal announcement last month. It wasn't so much the part about the launch of its keenly anticipated PlayStation 3 vidgame console being pushed back from spring to November. Rumors of a delay had...
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