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Takao Kuroda, President of Sony Philippines and Horoyuki Oda, general manager of VAIO Asia Pacific, each proudly hold the newly launched VAIO X laptop, the first offer of Sony Electronics for the Sony Group's unified make.believe campaign.

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Sony Corp. narrowed its full-year loss forecast, as cost reductions more than offset a stronger yen and lower sales of televisions and cameras.

Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. , the worlda s two largest makers of consumer electronics, forecast narrower annual losses after cutting jobs and closing factories.

Japan's Sony Corp. on Friday posted a smaller-than-expected net loss for its second quarter even as revenue dropped 20% from a year ago, and also predicted a smaller loss for the full fiscal year.

Netflix's streaming movie and TV service will be made available to Sony's 9 million PlayStation 3 customers under a distribution partnership announced Monday.

VIZIO announced that Sony Corporation has become a licensee under VIZIO's patent portfolio.

"If you build it, they will come." That's why Netflix is building its online infrastructure around devices you may already have in your entertainment center, right next to that 52" LCD screen.

Yves Saint Laurent bests Michael Jackson to top Forbes' ninth annual ranking of the highest-earning celebrity estates.

Netflix Inc. is expanding availability of its "Watch Instantly" streaming video service to Sony Corp.

The US Department of Justice yesterday sent subpoenas to Japanese technology giants Hitachi and Toshiba Corporation as part of an enquiry on whether their optical disc drive operations in the US with South Korean partners amounhted to antitrust violations.

Netflix Inc. and Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. said Monday they are joining forces to make movies and TV episodes from Netflix available to be streamed to televisions via the PlayStation3 game console.

Sony PS3 Will Get Netflix Streaming Next Month Oct. 26, 2009, 12:01 AM 595 Netflix's movie and TV streaming service will become available for Sony's PS3 videogame console, the companies announced.

Published: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 5:09 a.m. DAYS after Michael Jackson died last summer, an executive at Sony Music phoned Amy Pascal, the co-head of the company's movie studio, to tell her that the pop singer had left hours upon hours of rehearsal tapes for his planned run of 50 concerts in ...

Thursday, 22 October 2009, 2:34 pm Press Release: Sony Entertainment Media Release Auckland, October, 2009: - Sony is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the annual AUT Creative Technologies Scholarship.

This has been the week of Microsoft Corp., with the company rolling out its new operating system, Windows 7, then beating Wall Street expectations with its earnings report.

One of the greatest fears of many economists is that the financial recovery of the United States will be doomed to the same fate Japan's economy once faced: a decade or more of stagnant growth.

Sony on Thursday unveiled an impressive 3D display that can be viewed from any direction.

EA says the game has sold 100 million units. New sequels are released. The "Need For Speed" videogame franchise is crossing a finish line, but its publisher, Electronic Arts , says the game is kicking into high gear.

In the world of laptops, skinny is in ; laptops continue to 'lose weight' and the Sony X Series notebooks, which were revealed in Singapore last week, are currently the skinniest on the market.

Vevo Gets Investment From Abu Dhabi At $300 Million Valuation Oct. 19, 2009, 8:00 AM 186 Vevo , the Hulu-for-music-videos, announced this morning that it received investment from Abu Dhabi Media Company, but did not disclose a price.

"Where the Wild Things Are" proved a bigger hit with adult audiences than family crowds as the adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book debuted at No.

Q3 highlights: * Decline in global handset market slowing down * Positive trend from continuing transformation programme * External financing arranged * Refreshed brand in time for Aino and Satio launch in Q4 The consolidated financial summary for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009 is as follows: ...

Mobile handset maker Sony Ericsson said Friday that its third-quarter loss widened following a sharp drop in the number of units shipped, though the group said it's starting to see the benefits of restructuring efforts.

Filed under: General Electric , Walt Disney , Viacom , Sony Corp ADR , Film General Electric 's studio division didn't have a great summer at the box office.

Toshiba Corp. plans to launch a three-dimensional television by the end of March 2011, Toshiba spokesman Keisuke Ohmori told Dow Jones Newswires on Tuesday.

Sony Ericsson's closely watched high-end phones, Satio, Anio and Yari, will be globally launched over the coming weeks, the handset maker said Friday.

At the CEATEC show in Tokyo, major Asian electronics makers showed off new TVs and other technologies designed to bring 3-D shows to consumers' living rooms.

Sony Ericsson was established in 2001 after Japanese company, Sony Corporation collaborated with Swedish telecommunications company, Ericsson to form parity of excellent electronic products being offered to consumers.

Listed in: Nintendo DS , Wii Tags: Microsoft , Google , Sony , Nintendo O 1 Despite recent setbacks profits-wise, Nintendo 's success in this console generation is a hard thing to argue against.

It's starting to look like more than a schoolyard crush. As Sony scrambles to recover from billions of dollars in losses, a flirtation with Google is becoming serious.

Amazon.com Inc. cut the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader for the second time this year, as competition continues to grow in the fledgling e-book category.

United Arab Emirates: 1 hour, 50 minutes ago Sony Gulf FZE today announced the launch of its latest VAIO X series, redefining the mobile PC category once again.

For all of you who have asked over the years when the Amazon Kindle would be available outside the U.S., the answer is finally "now." The Amazon World Kindle, aimed at English-language readers, is now being sold for $279 with international 3G wireless from AT&T covering more than 100 countries and territories - and it can be shipped outside the ...

The Sony PSP has been a premier mobile gaming platform for the past five years, but it was always a bit large for a portable system.

Sony Corp. , Japana s biggest exporter of televisions, said a future strengthening of the yen could drag the countrya s electronics makers further behind South Korean companies such as Samsung Electronics Co.

In a fresh market report, IT researcher iSupplisees OLED TV screens rising from a paltry $10 million of worldwide revenue this year to an eye-popping $1.8 billion in 2015.

Filed under: Time Warner , Walt Disney , Sony Corp ADR , News Corp'B' , Film The movie-going public was in the mood to see a classic Hollywood horror archetype over the weekend: zombies.

Sony announces the development of a highly efficient wireless power transfer system that eliminates use of power cables from products such as television sets.

October 1, 2009 -- Sony Corporation today announced the development of a single lens 3D camera technology capable of recording natural and smooth 3D images of even fast-moving subject matter such as sports, at 240fps .

Sony Electronics inked a deal with ebook publisher Smashwords Inc. that will let people self-publish books for Sony's electronic readers.

It's easy forget that the PSP Go is actually the fourth PlayStation Portable handheld from Sony but it was over six years ago that the original model was announced.

Cisco Systems on Thursday said it struck a $3 billion deal to buy Norway's Tandberg to bolster its position in video conferencing, though there's doubt in the market that the deal will be completed on these terms.