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• Sony apologises to Church of England over computer game

  - 2007-06-15

  LONDON AFP — Entertainment giant Sony has apologised to the Church of England for featuring a prominent British cathedral in a violent video game, a spokesman for the church said Friday. The Japanese firm had written to officials at Manchester Cathedral in north-west England, saying they had not intended...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, computer, England, Games, Sony Corp., violence

• IBM and MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Complete First Ever Course on the Cell Broadband Engine

  - 2007-04-20

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT announce the recent completion of the first course in the United States structured around the capabilities of the Cell Broadband EngineTM (Cell/B.E), the microprocessor that powers Sony Computer Entertainment's SCE PLAYSTATION®3...

  Tags: Cell, computer, computer science, IBM Corp., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3

• Dell raises recall to 4.2 million laptop batteries

  - 2006-09-29

  NEW YORK AFP — US computer giant Dell Inc. said it was raising the number of Sony-made laptop batteries it is recalling due to a worldwide fire scare by 100,000 to 4.2 million. The world's biggest computer maker first announced the recall of 4.1 million batteries made by Sony in...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, battery, computer, Dell Computer Corp., Engineering, PRODUCTIVITY, recall, Sony Corp.

• Statement Regarding Sony's Support of Apple's Recall of Lithium Ion Battery Packs Used in Apple Notebook Computers.

  - 2006-08-25

  TOKYO, August 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, in conjunction with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Apple Computer announced a voluntary recall of lithium ion battery packs used in certain Apple notebook computers. The recalled packs contain b TOKYO, August 25 /PRNewswire/ --...

  Tags: Apple Inc., battery, computer, lithium-ion, lithium-ion battery, notebook computer, recall, Sony Corp.

• Sony Corp to introduce Blu-ray and handheld computers

  - 2006-05-17

  Worldwide Computer Products News-17 May 2006-Sony Corp to introduce Blu-ray and handheld computersC1995-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, computer, handheld, handheld computer, Sony Corp.

• Best buys.(Buyers Guide)

  - 2005-09-01

  Hardware Best Small PCs Shuttle Computer's XPC i8600b ($1,611); Dell Inc.'s OptiPlex SX 280 ($1,403); Gateway Computers' Profile 5.5C ($1,885) Source: Dan Sommer et al., "Small Is Beautiful," PC World,...

  Tags: Canon Inc., computer, Desktops, HARDWARE, InfoWorld, Olympus Corp., PC, PC World, PRODUCTIVITY, Sony Corp.

• Wireless wide area computer access.(Caught in the searchlights: Communications, Corrections & Forensics/Science)

  - 2005-07-01

  Sony's portable VAIO T-Series notebook computers now have integrated high-speed wireless wide area network WWAN technology. T-Series computers come equipped with Sony's SmartWi application that searches for connection options and allows a user to s Sony's portable VAIO T-Series notebook computers now have integrated high-speed...

  Tags: computer, Sony Corp., wireless

• Cell processor clocks in at 4 GHz.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Toshiba Corp.)(Sony Corp. )(development of new "super computer on a chip" processor)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-03-21

  Mar 21, 2005 (Electronics News - ABIX via COMTEX) Mar 21, 2005 (Electronics News - ABIX via COMTEX)

  Tags: Cell, chip, computer, IBM Corp., processor, Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp.

• SAP and Sony Team Up to Keep Ahead in Competitive Retail Market

  BNET - 2004-09-01

  As the leading electronic and computer products solutions provider for Canadian consumers and businesses, Sony of Canada has long been a forerunner of innovation. Rapid product commoditization makes the consumer electronic and computer products market a very competitive space. Finding a better way to get the right products at the...

  Tags: Sony Corp., Team, SAP AG, Computer, Productivity, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales

• BRIEFING - ASIA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - JULY 22, 2004.

  - 2004-07-22

  An executive briefing on information technology for July 22, 2004, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. TAIWAN'S QCI BUYS MORE SHARES OF CHINESE COMPUTER FIRM HONG KONG - Quanta Computer Inc. QCI (TAIEX:2382), a...

  Tags: BPO, computer, Dentsu Inc., Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Infosys Technologies Ltd., Japan, Outsourcing, PRODUCTIVITY, Sony Corp., Strategy, World Bank