Wednesday's announcement gives Sony a head start over Microsoft and an Xbox 360 successor.
However, this version of the Xperia might finally be the one to make Sony a legitimate competitor in the smartphone business.
The move to establish an online bank would give Sony a stronger presence in the financial sector and particularly the consumer finance sector.
As I speculated last week, Hypponen sees the crisis as a chain reaction, with each high-profile breach making Sony a more likely target for the next.
In the first couple of days he received a Sony DSC-F828 Cyber-shot camera, a Sony Vaio laptop, an MP3 player, a Bluetooth headset and USB storage keys.
"The Chinese need a Sony: a company that will stand for high quality, that will produce incredible amounts of innovation, " says Martyn Straw, president of brand consultancy Interbrand in New York.
"The Chinese need a Sony: a company that will stand for high quality, that will produce incredible amounts of innovation, " says Martyn Straw, the president of Interbrand, a brand consultancy in New York.
Once upon a time (2007) in a land far, far away (Thailand) lived the i-mobile 902, a pseudo Sony Ericsson W800 clone featuring a trick five-megapixel autofocus camera with a Sony-made CCD sensor and xenon flash.
The new Sony stores will also offer the tech equivalent of house calls, dispatching a Sony employee to a customer's home in order to assess his or her needs, as well as recommend devices that fit their homes.
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.
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Or is this a partial admission by Sony that a dedicated games-only device may not be what users want?
It will become still more so when the likes of Ito-Yokado, a retailer, and Sony, a consumer-electronics group, get into the business.
And producer Jonathan Sumberg, who also doubles up as a cameraman, had with him a Sony EX1 - a smaller broadcast-quality camera - and two GoPros.
But in an effort to provide a portable gaming experience that was on par with that of a home console, Sony built a more expensive device.
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Odder still, Capcom has a long relationship with Sony and a PS3 exclusive release of a brand new Monster Hunter game seems like a no-brainer for everyone involved.
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The first discounted products American Express will sell are an Amazon Kindle Fire, a Sony Action cam, a Donna Karan-designed bracelet and an Xbox 360.
The first discounted products American Express will sell are an Amazon Kindle Fire, a Sony Action cam, a Donna Karan designed bracelet and an Xbox 360.
Because Sony had a really big CD business, this was disruptive to Sony itself, and they lost the opportunity and gave it to Apple and the iPod.
In 2010, Sony launched a network platform called "Qriocity" which connects many of Sony's network-enabled devices, and has been expanding its services into global markets.
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As usual, the sound was excellent but Sony cheated a bit at its IFA stand by equipping the demo units with high-end Sony over-the-skull cans.
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Sony previously yanked its backwards compatibility feature in PlayStation 3 (a feature that, like Nintendo, Sony used as a hyping point to promote the system).
The stolen goods are a Sony FX401 laptop computer and a JVC camcorder.
He also kept up a weekly show on BBC Radio 2 - the Sunday Supplement, for which he won a Sony Award - and wrote a sports column for the Daily Telegraph.
For those living in a galaxy far, far away, here's a brief recap: Star Wars director Lucas has filmed Episode II - Attack of the Clones using six digital high-definition video cameras from Sony Electronics , a unit of Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), rather than traditional 35-millimeter film cameras.
The first thing you'll notice, once you get past the space-age design, is the fact that the camera really does feel like a rebranded Sony NEX device slipped into a new shell, and as such, it takes those Sony e-mount lenses.
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And Gerstmann says Sony has a lot riding on this machine - the whole corporation, really.
Sony posted a teaser trailer on its Playstation blog, and it has the Internet talking.
Also on Thursday, Sony reported a loss of 15.4bn yen for the July to September quarter.
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Sony, a consumer-electronics company, began the trend in 1997, by cutting its board by half.
Sony is a high-cost producer with a brand name that is second to none.
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