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IBM's design services unit has begun promoting the new Cell microprocessor, developed together with Sony and Toshiba, to potential users outside of the consumer electronics industry in which the chip is likely to first appear.
Sony on Thursday released its $249 PlayStation Portable (PSP) to the North American market. There's no question the system packs a lot more versatility under the hood than an equivalently-priced iPod mini, though the PSP comes with some drawbacks of its own.
A US court ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc (SCEI) to pay Immersion $90.7 million for patent infringement of touch feedback technology used in PlayStation games consoles, said court documents.
After more than a year of touting Blu-ray as the best technology to replace DVD for storing high-definition video, a top executive at Sony, one of Blu-ray's major backers, has opened the door to the possibility of unifying the format with its arch rival, HD-DVD.
Sony plans to make a push for European small and medium-size business PC users with new Vaio PCs the company announced Wednesday at Cebit.
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB will unveil a mobile phone-cum-digital music player early next month, company President Miles Flint announced at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes on Monday.
Sony has taken the first step toward opening up the proprietary UMD optical disc system used in its PSP so that other companies can build products based on the discs.
Sony revised the financial outlook for its current fiscal year on Thursday, cutting estimates for sales and operating income, but raising its estimate for net income.
Sony will expand its Qualia line of products later this month with the addition of a video processing device that can improve the image quality of standard and high-definition images.
A day before the official opening of the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Sony unveiled the first playable versions of US PSP titles running on a retail version of the PSP.
Sony has announced new ranges of camcorders, and a 7.2mp digital still camera. The Cybershot P200 has encloses its 7.2 million pixel CCD in a slim, stylish body. It has a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with...
Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will offer software upgrades for earlier players with hard disk storage so they can play MP3s too.
It's the fight computer gamers have been waiting for. But the latest duel between wise old master Nintendo and challenger Sony is not taking place on a TV screen.
Sony has named the day it will launch its assault on the portable gaming sector. The company will put its PlayStation Portable on sale in Japan on December 12.
Sony has revealed detailed specifications for its soon-to-be-released PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game console at the Tokyo Game Show, including support for MP3.
PlayStation 3 will use the Blu-ray Disc format, while a new, slimmer PlayStation 2 will go on sale internationally early in November, Sony announced today.
Sony hopes to make itself the leading brand for products using high-definition technology in Japan this year and worldwide in 2005, the company said last week.
In the US, Sony Electronics has announced the addition of a 2GB Memory Stick Pro card ("about US$700") to its line-up of storage options compatible with the company's digital cameras and other mobile devices.
Sony's Ken Kutaragi outlined the PlayStation 3's release schedule at the PlayStation Meeting 2004 held yesterday in Tokyo, in response to concerns that Sony's next-generation console will lag behind the competitors (namely the Xbox 2, which is said to be released next year).
At Sony's PlayStation Meeting 2004 in Tokyo yesterday, further details surrounding the PSP (PlayStation Portable) have been announced, including an updated list of supporting developers, upcoming titles, and new specifications.
