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• Tech Law: YouTube Smoking Gun, Gamers Sue Sony, More

  BNET - 2009-10-15

  Viacom finds YouTube smoking gun;games sue Sony over firmware upgrade; EU and Microsoft to agree on browser approach; the DOJ to investigate IBM mainframe sales; and media outlets and Apple are targeted in a patent suit. by Erik Sherman

  Tags: Sony Corp., YouTube Inc., Mainframes, Sales Strategy, Games, Servers, Hardware, Sales, Personal Technology, Erik Sherman

• Communacopia: Murdoch: We'll Start Charging For WSJ Blackberry App; Favors Sony Reader Over Kindle

  PaidContent - 2009-09-15

  The Wall St. Journal is ready to start charging for mobile access on the Blackberry, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO and chairman Rupert Murdoch told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference. He didn’t offer a time frame for the charges, but indicated it would it start in...

  Tags: Sony Corp., Wall Street Journal, NYSE Euronext, Rupert Murdoch, Amazon.com Inc., Sony Reader, Wall St. Journal, Handhelds, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Finance, Entertainment, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Social Media, Video, Companies, News Corp., Dow Jones, David Kaplan

• Sony Makes Google?s Chrome Its Default Browser; Is Chrome OS Next?

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-09-01

  Andy Beal submits: Sony SNE and Google GOOG would like to confirm that, “it’s not what you know, but who you know” is alive and well. At least, that’s the official basis for Sony agreeing to make Google’s Chrome the default browser in all Vaio notebooks sold in the...

  Tags: Internet, Hardware, Software, Andy Beal, Google Inc., Sony Corp.

• Sony To Distribute Google Chrome On New Vaio PCs

  PaidContent - 2009-08-31

  Sony (NYSE: SNE) has agreed to put Google’s Chrome browser on new Vaio PCs in the first of what is likely to be several distribution deals that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is counting on to boost the market share of its internet browser. The FT, which first reported on the...

  Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Sony Vaio, PC, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Net Applications, Web Browsers, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Companies, Google, Sony, Joseph Tartakoff

• Sony Will Include Google Browser on Vaios

  BNET - 2009-08-31

  For the last year, Google's browser market share has been languishing at the roughly under 2 percent it had within the first week of launching a year ago. That's not good news for Google given that it wants people to adopt its announced-but-still-a-gleam-in-the-developers'-eyes operating system that will make Chrome the...

  Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Sony Vaio, Web Browser, Desktops, Hardware, Erik Sherman

• Sony opens new chapter in e-book fight

  Financial Times - 2009-08-25

  Sony has unveiled its bid to reclaim ground lost to Amazon.com in the battle for control of the emerging electronic book market with a wireless, touch-screen reader priced at $399.The Japanese electronics group's new Reader Daily Edition, which will hit the US market in December, costs $100 more than...

  Tags: Touch Screen, Sony Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Wireless, E-books, Keyboards, 3G, Wi-Fi, Monitors & Displays, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Components, Financial Times

• Report: Sony's New E-Readers Come With Discounts?But Still No WiFi

  PaidContent - 2009-08-04

  *Sony* plans to launch two new e-readers tomorrow—one with a touch screen, priced at just $299—to better compete in an e-book market that has grown increasingly crowded with rivals like Plastic Logic, Samsung, and of course, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). The Sony (NYSE: SNE) readers will hit stores later this...

  Tags: Touch Screen, E-reader, Sony Corp., NYSE Euronext, Amazon.com Inc., Keyboards, E-books, Monitors & Displays, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Media & Publishing, Books, eReaders, Companies, Amazon.com, Kindle, Sony, Tameka Kee

• Sony Corporation Q4 2009 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-14

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Jason Mauricio - Arete. Jason Mauricio - Arete Could you update us on PS3 inventory, be it your own inventory or channel inventory, in terms of units and maybe give us an update on the timing of...

  Tags: Sony Corp., Screen, Sony PlayStation 3, Inventory, Call Transcript, Cost Savings, Earnings, Deterioration, TVs, Monitors & Displays, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, Seeking Alpha

• Sony Corporation F4Q08 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-14

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Jason Mauricio - Arete. Jason Mauricio - Arete Could you update us on PS3 inventory, be it your own inventory or channel inventory, in terms of units and maybe give us an update on the timing of...

  Tags: Sony Corp., Screen, Sony PlayStation 3, Inventory, Call Transcript, Cost Savings, Earnings, Deterioration, TVs, Monitors & Displays, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, Seeking Alpha

• Sony partners with NVidia for realistic games

  Strategy Eye - 2009-03-19

  Sony is working with chipset producer NVidia to enable developers to produce more lifelike games for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console. The agreement will allow Sony to distribute NVidia’s PhysX software development kit for free to registered PS3 users. The kits will be available through Sony’s developer network. ...

  Tags: Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, NVidia Corp., Games, Chipsets, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sony Computer Entertainment, Thomas Warren