It also means that some of the many sick dot-coms still have a chance of survival--though it wouldn't hurt to have a warehouse full of Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people) PlayStation 2s.
Kurt Hellstrom , CEO of Sweden's beleaguered wireless concern Ericsson (nasdaq: ERICY - news - people ), has thrown a temper tantrum, threatening to bail out of the company's joint venture with Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) if sales of mobile phones don't start picking up soon.
Microsoft's Xbox console has made life difficult for Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), but the money-losing business can't match Apple's iPod profit spigot.