It had run through its initial funding without delivering a product to the watchmaker or Sony.
Social games are less complex than those played on consoles like Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation 3.
Can Barnes and Noble or Sony really take a bite out of the e-book reader market by dethroning the iPad or the Kindle?
Sure, Nintendo's 3DS or Sony's PS Vita might get you by, but neither can quite deliver the full-bore experience of a home console.
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In 2004 Taylor tried shopping it around for play on a console like the Microsoft Xbox or Sony PlayStation 2, but no publisher wanted to risk a flop.
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Online account security breaches are seemingly commonplace these days -- just ask LinkedIn or Sony -- and now we can add Yahoo's name to the list of hacking victims.
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The problem NCsoft faced is that most games in Japan, America and Europe are played on specially made consoles, such as Nintendo's GameBoy or Sony's PlayStation2, which is already enabled to play online.
We got to handle the ultraportable today, and while it's no match for the sexy produced by Lenovo or Sony on this front, it just "feels" like a real laptop... and there's plenty else to love.
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The valuation of Japanese companies given their extremely high levels of efficiency mean that one should jump in and pick up stock in the world class names such as Honda and Toyota, Komatsu or Sony and Fujitsu.
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But it's the live preview that will set this one apart (at least until Canon, Nikon or Sony catch up) -- and either make you rush out to buy it, or make you turn up your nose in disdain.
That said, unless Microsoft or Sony have more than burlier hardware up their sleeves, and assuming third-party developers can match Nintendo's skill utilizing the second screen, the Wii U already has a lock on the future of big-idea gaming.
's (nyse: DIS - news - people ) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest or Sony's (nyse: SNE - news - people ) Talladega Nights, which have both proved successful across the media landscape.
The same could apply to products at monstrous companies like Samsung or Sony, where executives need to make planning decisions based on product performance, and could benefit greatly from having all of the necessary information for a single gadget listed around each cube.
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Take care if you happen to travel through downtown San Francisco this week: The sidewalks are full of people walking with their heads down, eyes locked on their smart phone, Nintendo DS or Sony PlayStation Portable, deeply engrossed in a video game and not necessarily watching where they are going.
It talks with iChat and with Mail, Apple's new e-mail program, and will also work with Palm OS-based handheld computers, like those from Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ), Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people ) or Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ).
In a separate look at YouTube, Pew noted that the most viewed video at the site last week had nothing to do with Jackson, Billy Mays or a Sony Walkman.
The Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray player is finally available to the masses, but how does it stack up against other players on the market, or even Sony's own PlayStation 3?
If you're using a non-NFC device like an iPhone or a Sony WiFi camera, then worry not -- it's possible to achieve the same results using WiFi alone, and you can also use an SD card or USB to get data across.
As if these advantages weren't enough, there is also the matter of marketing muscle: few companies anywhere in the world have gone head-to-head with a Matsushita (better known by its brand names, Panasonic and National) or a Sony and lived to tell the tale.
That could give consumers the take-it-or-leave-it choice of going all Sony or nothing.
It'll be available in black this April, with a white version following in June -- consider it the company's take on bedside or kitchen speaker that you'd normally see from Sony or Harman.
If you look at cameras from Sony or Panasonic they are sexy, finely designed products.
"We're a little more democratic than Sony or Philips, which are elitist, " says Kim.
More than Sony or Nintendo, Apple is in the driving seat of mobile gaming.
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Sooner or later, Sony is going to have to make some changes.
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Microsoft's main aim is to get close to or even overhaul Sony.
If Samsung, Sony or someone else had come up with a better tablet, I'd be singing their praises, but that hasn't happened yet.
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Sure, you can still snag a handheld device from Sony or Nintendo, but today's video game industry is far more diverse.
Leavitt would be surprised if either Sony or Liberty Media would want to sell access to the emerging strength of the Hispanic market.
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