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Sony’s Anticipates $2.9 Billion Annual Loss
The Japanese electronics giant, Sony continued to incur losses as it announced on Thursday that the company is anticipating a loss of $2.9 billion for fiscal 2011, which is doubled the figures estimated earlier. While announcing its fiscal 2011 third quarter results (Company’s fiscal year runs April to April), the…
Kazuo Hirai Becomes the New President and CEO of Sony
The Japanese electronics giant Sony is having a tough time for last four years. The company has encountered losses year over year despite its efforts. Finally, the company has taken a bold step and announced Kazuo Hirai, former President of Consumer Products & Services Group, as its new President and…
Sony’s Plans to Take on Spotify and Netflix
It won’t be surprising if you are amongst the one who were not aware of streaming music and video services of Sony. It is because the services are not as popular as that of Spotify and Netflix. You might be surprised to know that both Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited…
Sony Planning to Upgrade Tablets and Xperia Smartphones to Android 4.0 Soon
A recent report suggest that Sony is planning to upgrade its Android tablets and Xperia smartphones to Google’s latest mobile operating system Android 4.0 (codenamed: Ice Cream Sandwich) in the Spring. In addition to this, the report also claims that Sony is up to garnish the Tablet S and Tablet…
Sony Announces Xperia Ion with 12MP Camera and Support for 4G LTE
Sony has also introduced its first 4G LTE device, Sony Xperia Ion, at the CES. The device will be offered through AT&T in United States. Xperia Ion sports a larger 4.6-inch (1280 × 720 pixels) HD display, 16GB of built-in flash storage and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. The most impressive…
Sony Quits LCD Joint Venture with Samsung
Sony and Samsung are in joint venture in the form of S-LCD Co. for making LCDs for TVs, but it will soon become a history as Japanese company has announced that it will quit the 50-50 venture by selling its share for US$940 million to the Korean competitor. Remember, both…
Sony Acquires Ericsson’s 50% Stake in Sony Ericsson for €1.05 Billion
The Japanese electronic joint, Sony has confirmed today that it is going to buy out 50% stake of Ericsson in the Sony Ericsson joint venture of mobile phone for €1.05 billion. The deal will put Sony in control of 50% stake of Ericsson in joint venture. Besides 50% stake of…
Sony Unveils the First Android-based Walkman
The first Android-based Walkman media player, the Z-1000 has been rolled out by Sony. The Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) is running on it and is supposed to compete with iPod Touch with its 4.3-inch WVGA (400×800) touchscreen, 512MB of RAM and NVIDIA Tegra 2.1GHz dual-core CPU platform. Furthermore, the NW-Z1000 features…
Sony Hacking Dilemma: 2.2 Million Credit Card Details Up for Sale
News are that, 2.2 million credit card details are currently up for sale to the highest bidder, worst case scenario. Unknown hackers tried to sell these details to Sony before listing them on underground credit card sales forums, reported by PSX-Scene. What really is frustrating that CCV security codes were…
Sony Get Sued for Security/Data Breach
Like clockwork, the first lawsuit resulting from the security breach of the personal data of more than 77 million Sony PlayStation Network customers has been filed. The suit was filed today on behalf of Kristopher Johns, 36, of Birmingham, Ala., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…
