Through the combination of compelling applications, Sony's network services, and cross device connectivity, VAIO is leading the way in developing a new Touchworld experience.

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To the extent 2011 sees lower year-over-year growth than originally forecasted, we would expect to see that demand pushed into 2012, because of the fundamental drivers, from the standpoint of expansion of network services, the cloud and new applications for NAND flash memory in PCs will continue to evolve and drive the industry.

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Ongoing improvements in SoC silicon and network level applications are improving the economics on the infrastructure side and helping the faster rollout of LTE-based services.

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Increasingly, these devices look less like Windows PCs than a new breed of network client- simple, special purpose devices that access the user's data, applications and services on networked servers.

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