Sources: Sony Eyes File-Sharing Venture
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LOS ANGELES - Sony BMG Music Entertainment and online peer-to-peer software distributor Grokster are working on a new venture that is expected to offer paid and free song downloads over the Internet, sources say.
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By Bernhard Warner LONDON  - Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. said on Thursday it is mulling a major strategic shift to make digital music devices that play MP3 song files.
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Media & professional: File-sharing has holed the record industry below the waterline. So why does private equity guru Guy Hands want to buy EMI?
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In yet more file sharing news, NME is reporting that Napster founder Shawn Fanning is planning another legal music download service that will reportedly have an almost limitless amount of tracks.
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The vice chairman of Japan's Sony Corp. said the company would consider spinning off its entertainment assets as a separately quoted business, a UK newspaper reported on Friday.
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Many are willing to bet that media companies will want to share ad revenue with the popular video Web site, despite questions about piracy.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Universal Media  Disc, a proprietary format for Sony's PlayStation Portable, may  have failed as a movie format, but Sony's continued attempts to  portray the PSP as a multimedia device rather than a game  player now find the company trying again, this time with TV  shows.
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Sony considers adding native mp3 support to its players Ars Technica
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Someone at Sony has wisened up and decided to add MP3 support to their new NW-HD3 player slated for release in December. &quot;Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range.
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As part of its cost-cutting effort, Sony may outsource PS3 chip production.
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The world's second biggest record label, Sony BMG, talks to online file-sharing firm Grokster about possible collaboration.
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TOKYO - Japan&#39;s Sony Corp. will begin selling a computer and home-server system in Japan with 1,000 gigabytes of hard-drive storage â-nough to record six TV channels for a week straight â - company said.
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To throw a spanner in the works of Microsoft&#39;s arrival on the digital music scene, Apple wanted to sign a strategic agreement with Sony, Japanese daily Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun has revealed, quoting sources from Sony.
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The world&#39;s largest music company is discussing ways to distribute its songs through Grokster and other Internet file-swapping services, a deal that would embrace a technology long under legal assault by the recording industry.
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Sony, Sharp and Matsushita plan to offer camcorders based on a cut-down version of the Blu-ray Disc, and could announce product as early as next year.
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The file-sharing company swallows up one of its rivals in a bid to ease distribution of video and movies to cable boxes and mobile devices. Can the digital dream of peer-to-peer television become a reality? Analysis by Scott Gilbertson.
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Sony BMG - aka &#39;Bony&#39; - the merged music label is in talks with Grokster, the P2P software company has confirmed. Negotiations are believed to be focused on the development of a new, label-friendly P2P network.