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• Sony to launch world's slimmest 40-inch LCD TV

  - 2008-08-28

  TOKYO AFP — Sony Corp. said Thursday it will launch the world's thinnest and lightest 40-inch liquid crystal display LCD television, seeking to trump its rivals ahead of the key year-end shopping season. The new ZX1 model, part of the firm's popular Bravia series, is just 9.9 millimetres (0.39...

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• Operas from British stage to hit Japanese big screens

  - 2008-08-20

  TOKYO AFP — Sony Corp. plans to use its latest high-definition video technology to show operas staged in England in cinemas in Japan, the electronics giant said Wednesday. Sony will in November bring to a handful of Japanese cinemas Bizet's "Carmen" and Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" as recorded...

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• Sony 'to invest 40 bln yen in batteries'

  - 2008-08-04

  TOKYO AFP — Sony Corp. said Monday it will invest 40 billion yen (372 million dollars) to boost production of lithium-ion batteries amid growing demand for their use in mobile phones, cameras and other products. The company aims to boost its monthly production capacity of lithium-ion batteries to 74...

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• Sony first-quarter profits slide 47.4 percent

  - 2008-07-28

  TOKYO AFP — Japan's Sony Corp. said Tuesday its net earnings almost halved in the fiscal first quarter from a year earlier and issued a profit warning as business conditions worsen. The electronics icon said it was hit by increasing price competition and losses at mobile telephone operator Sony...

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• Sony says new camcorder will photograph smiles

  - 2008-06-19

  TOKYO AFP — Japan's Sony Corp. said Thursday that it would next month launch the world's first high-definition camcorder that records video while snapping smiling photos at the same time. The palm-held handycam automatically releases the shutter when the subject smiles during video taping, freeing the user from switching...

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• Bertelsmann wants to sell Sony BMG stake to Sony

  - 2008-06-10

  FRANKFURT AFP — German media group Bertelsmann is in talks with Japanese partner Sony on the sale of Bertelsmann's half in their jointly owned music company Sony BMG, a newspaper said Tuesday. Each has owned half of the music publishing firm since 2004, and Sony has an option to...

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• Sony scholarship for female video game lovers

  - 2008-02-20

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Sony Online Entertainment SOE said Wednesday it is luring women into video game design with a 10,000-dollar scholarship and paid internships. "We are under-represented," Devra Pransky of SOE told AFP after the announcement of the scholarship at a major Game Developers Conference in San Francisco....

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• Game consoles can model black holes, drug molecules

  - 2008-02-13

  PARIS AFP — Researchers are cannibalising the Sony PlayStation 3 console and other gaming hardware, turning them into low-cost supercomputers to model pharmaceutical molecules and black holes, the weekly New Scientist says. The PS3 console uses a Cell chip, made by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, that comprises a central...

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• Japanese firm rapped over Sony, Toyota 'acquisition' claims: official

  - 2008-01-27

  TOKYO AFP — Japanese authorities have ordered a little known firm to correct its claim that it had bought controlling stakes in a clutch of corporate giants including Sony and Toyota Motor, officials said Monday. Teramento Corp., reportedly capitalised at 1,000 yen (9.3 dollars), raised eyebrows on Friday as...

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• Choi completes wire-to-wire win at US PGA Sony Open

  - 2008-01-13

  HONOLULU, Hawaii AFP — South Korea's K.J. Choi saved his best for last on Sunday, nabbing his only birdie of the day at 18 to complete his wire-to-wire victory in the 5.3 million-dollar Sony Open. Choi, who started the day with a four-shot lead, posted a one-over-par 71 in...

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