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- Highlight reel from the D conference
- The D: All Things Digital blog posts here put on by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher with help from WSJ was a rare event. Of course, the venue (Four Seasons, Carlsbad) and food were good for those who cared, and the attendees included a strange assemblage of well-heeled personalities. The...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Al Gore, Howard Stringer
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- CES keynote: Sony's strategy
- Company CEO outlines his 2006 plans for SonyDuring his second year as head of Sony, what does Howard Stringer have planned for the consumer electronics giant? He takes the CES keynote stand in Las Vegas to discuss upcoming Blu-ray Disc products and cameras. Dan Brown, author of "The Da Vinci...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Howard Stringer
- Videos 2006-01-05
- Sony's PlayStation 3
- At CES in Las Vegas, Sony talks PlayStation 3In his keynote, Sony CEO Howard Stringer says the PlayStation 2 and Portable outsold Microsoft's X-box during the holiday season. Appearing on stage with Stringer is Sony Computer Entertainment of America President Kaz Hirai.
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Howard Stringer
- Videos 2006-01-05
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- Sony to start selling 3D HDTVs by end of 2010
- The momentum continues to grow around the concept of 3D television, whether it's James Cameron pimping for Panasonic's technology or talk about a 3D channel coming to the U.S.. The latest news is that Sony is planning to release Bravia LCD HDTVs with 3D capabilities by the end of the...
- Tags: Sony Corp., 3D, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Mid-week HDTV news: Plasmas are hot sellers (again); Vizio remains tops in LCDs; Sony delays next OLED set
- The economic downturn no doubt helped push some manufacturers like Pioneer out of the plasma market, but the recession may now be saving plasmas from the brink of obsolescence. According to a new report from Quixel Research, plasma HDTVs have zoomed to a huge gain in 2Q of 2009, with...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Plasma, Organic Light-emitting Diode, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Sony Ericsson taps Nordberg as new CEO; Stringer as board chairman
- Struggling handset maker Sony Ericsson said on Monday techmeme that chief executive Dick Komiyama would retire at the end of the year, naming Ericsson executive Bert Nordberg to take the helm from October 15. Adding to the executive musical chairs, the firm also...
- Tags: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Board, Cell Phone, Ericsson Inc., Cellular Phones, Corporate Governance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Sony reports $1 billion annual loss, first in 14 years
- Sony said Thursday that it lost 98.9 billion yen, or about $1 billion, in the fiscal year through March and projected it would lose even more money this year amid a slump in consumer demand for electronics goods. It is the company's first annual net loss in 14 years. ...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Taxes, Manufacturing, Financial Planning, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- PlayStation - The Perils of Secrecy: is it Game Over?
- Microsoft's XBox 360's core technology was essentially funded and developed by Sony without them knowing, as detailed in the excellent book 'The Race for a New Games Machine' by David Shippy and Mickie Phipps. Sony partnered with Toshiba and IBM in 2001 to...
- Tags: Game, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, Cell, IBM Corp., Chip, Game Players, Semiconductors, Processors, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-04-18
- Weasels in the Woodwork
- Dennis Howlett makes some terrific points in comparing the new Jive Software 'Social Business Software' that refreshes the Clearspace 2.5 product line today with existing enterprise incumbents. Dennis and his cohorts in the enterprise irregulars have seen a few laps of the enterprise software game...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Middle Management, Dennis Howlett, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- An Obama Administration and Sony Comparison
- There are fascinating parallels with the vision and pragmatic realities of rolling out effective corporate collaboration initiatives and the new US leadership's arrival at the White House this week. The White House has a substantial culture and bureaucracy peculiar to it regardless of its current...
- Tags: Sony Corp., White House, Administration, Enterprise 2.0 Application, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Photos: Highlights from Sony's CES keynote
- Howard Stringer, Sony's CEO, delivered his company's vision of the future Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Sony Corp., Photograph, Strategy, Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-01-08
- CES 2009: The world's first web-browsing camera [day 3]
- Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer mentioned it in his keynote, but I thought this deserved its own post. The Sony Cybershot DSC-G3 is the world's first Wi-Fi-enabled digital camera that can upload photos and videos via a built-in Web browser. ...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Web, Video, Photograph, Camera, Sony Cybershot DSC-G3, Cybershot G3 Camera, Corporate Communications, Wireless, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- CES 2009: 90% of Sony products will connect to Internet, each other by 2011 [day 3]
- Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer had his keynote earlier today, and besides a cameo by Tom Hanks for a sneak peek of his upcoming flick Angels & Demons (yesterday's big surprise?), there were a few notables: Stringer's magic solutions for the CE industry: Fusion of industries, open...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Internet, Microsoft Windows CE, Channel Management, Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- CES 2009: Sony launches eco line of Bravia TVs, adds Internet Widgets to XBR, Z series sets
- At yesterday's news conference, Sony introduced a few novel products for the company, but when it came to HDTVs, there were no major announcements. Along with adding 240Hz refresh rates and its InternetLink features to more sets, the biggest news was a new series of energy-efficient TVs that fall under...
- Tags: Sony Corp., IBM zSeries, Internet, VE5 Series, TVs, Mainframes, Tv & Home Theater, Servers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Is the PlayStation Doomed?
- Sony, putting aside the human toll of massive restructuring, is a fascinating example of the carnage happening in the business world today, and the stifling of innovation in large companies. Today's multinational conglomerate had humble origins in post WWII Japan: Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Game Players, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- Sony: What went wrong (and is still going wrong)
- Sony on Tuesday outlined its restructuring plans amid a downturn in consumer electronics, bloated inventory and weak demand for its products. The larger question is whether Sony will ever get its unwieldy management structure right. First, the headlines. Sony is restructuring to boost profitability. As part of...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
- News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Sony will lose video download battle too
- Sony is reportedly preparing a bit move to challenge Apple's video download aspirations. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony is going to use its PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Bravia TVs to ride shotgun with video download services. This effort would be similar to the way Apple...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Apple Inc., Video, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Sony: "If we fail, it is because we positioned PS3 sales as the Mercedes of the videogame field"
- Why do I get the feeling that Sony executives are worried that the PS3 wont be enough to polish the companys halo and are already looking for excuses? Based on comments made by Sonys CEO Sir Howard Stringer, it seems that the company is already worried that price might...
- Tags: Games, sales, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Schneier: Do not upgrade to Vista
- Security guru Bruce Schneier has given a big thumbs-down to Windows Vista, arguing that the DRM digital rights management features built into the new operating system "will make your computer less reliable and less secure."The celebrated cryptographer, who is credited with designing or co-designing several widely used encryption algorithms, is...
- Tags: Microsoft, Windows Vista, Punditocracy, Piracy, Digital rights management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Bruce Schneier, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
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