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Founded Jan 1946
Headquarters San Diego, CA, USA
Website www.sony.com

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SNE Sony 21:00 GMT 22.91 +1.94 +9.25% 22418990 41.04 0.511 23.160B

Latest Sony news

  • LulzSec hackers jailed

    According to the Guardian, Ryan Ackroyd, Ryan Cleary, Jake Davis and Mustafa al-Bassam had been charged with attacks on the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Sony, Nintendo, 20th Century Fox and governments and police forces in a 50-day spree in the summer of 2011.
  • NEC cooks up water cooled phone

    Sony is selling waterproof phones, Samsung is apparently working on an optical zoom camera, while HTC is making great phones that don’t make the company any money. NEC has taken things up a notch, by announcing the world’s first water-cooled smartphone.
  • Sony in profit but still on shaky ground

    For the first time in five years, seppuku-prone gadget behemoth Sony has posted annual profits - but the company is far from out of the woods.
  • Phablet and superphone sales to remain strong

    The vast majority of phablet devices run on Android and Transparency Market Research believes Google’s OS will continue to dominate the market over the next five years. However, the share of Windows based devices is also set to increase, thanks to upcoming phablets from Nokia, HTC, ZTE and Sony.
  • Amazon has a telly vision

    The device would also compete with products from Roku and Boxee, gaming consoles from Microsoft and Sony that deliver video programming and Intel's planned channel.
  • LulzSec hacker gets a year in jail

    A LulzSec hacker who admitted taking part in a computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment was sentenced to a year in prison, followed by home detention.
  • AMD beats expectations, stays in the red

    AMD reported its Q1 numbers on Thursday and they were slightly better than Wall Street’s expectations.
  • Japan Display avoided Apple disaster

    The company was formed out of a merger of the small panel divisions of Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba last April. It did not mention Apple by name, but it is the company's biggest customer.
  • PC slump might well have a silver lining

    There is no other way of saying it, PC makers are in a world of trouble. The slump is getting worse and many punters now believe that we might see two subsequent quarters of double digit decline. The trouble is, they can’t do much about it, at least not in the short term.
  • LulzSec hacker admits attacks

    A UK-based computer hacker who worked under the LulzSec banner has admitted attacking Sony, Nintendo, Rupert Murdoch's News International and the Arizona State Police.
  • Windows XP users face an upgrade conundrum

    CommentThe estimate is that some 37 percent of people are happy with using what turned out to be a very stable operating system. In my own case, I own a Sony Vaio which came installed with Vista but with the operating to "downgrade" to Windows XP. That, I duly did.
  • AMD claims Nvidia is bitter about PS4

    AMD claims that Nvidia's attacks on the Sony's PS4 are just sour grapes because it did not get the graphics chip contract.
  • How Apple and Intel killed Thunderbolt

    USB 3.0 has become practically universal and appeared in notebooks and desktops from every manufacturer, including Dell, Sony, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Acer and Asus.
  • Jobs flick delayed for marketing reasons

    True, Woz has signed up to work the Aaron Sorkin-penned, rival Steve Jobs biopic, being produced by Sony, so he might be a little biased.
  • EA Games CEO falls on his sword

    His rule was not a total cock-up. When he took over, EA was in trouble for underestimating the popularity of Nintendo's Wii console and overestimating the initial popularity of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. He did manage to turn that situation around.
  • Panasonic set to cut plasma screens

    There have been comments that plasma is dead in the water before. Panasonic is said to be working on OLED with Sony and plans to outsource manufacturing to keep costs down.
  • Nvidia sniffs at AMD's Sony victory

    Actually, it has thrown its toys out of the pram and claimed that Sony's choice was not because AMD had the better technology.
  • Sony comes up with interestingly simple DRM

    Sony has come up with a method of detecting pirated software which it thinks is simple enough to overcome a lot of the problems of DRM.

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