Sony snaps Grouper shut, gives Crackle a pop
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Drops video sharing biz model, goes in search of 'emerging talent' Sony Pictures is challenging YouTube's dominance of the user-generated content market by turning its online acquisition Grouper into a mini studio.â¦
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The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned. Only a few employees remain to prop up the once-ubiquitous digital audio player with minor updates, but no further improvements to Winamp are expected.
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With its new Walkman music player, Sony has broken with its tradition of promoting its own proprietary formats. The NW-HD3 will let users import and export tracks in the
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Discrete device turns off televisions, creating a little peace and quiet. Until the yelling starts.
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Preserving business bandwidth The long summer of sport draws to a close, and corporate networks draw a breath of relief as multiple streams of video cease to take 90 per cent of available bandwidth from the business. How was it for you? Did the voices from on high make the big statement "stop all streaming media - now!" And what was your response?â¦
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Mike Elgan reports on a device that lets you rat out fellow movie-goers for being annoying.
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Sony Corp. will begin shuttering its  Connect Music Store in March, the company confirmed Thursday.
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Sony Pictures is turning  its online acquisition Grouper into a ministudio that aims to  move some of the best user-generated content onto movie and TV  screens.
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Tacit admission of defeat IFA 07 Sony will next year kill off its Connect digital music download service, Register Hardware has learned. Its Walkman products will instead use Windows Media technology, the consumer electronics giant told its customers today.â¦
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Consumer electronics giant Sony Corporation has reversed its policy and now says that it will support the popular MP3 file format for some of its portable music players.
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Sony's decision to drop its ATRAC file format and shutter the Connect music store signals a radical departure for the electronics giant, which has tried for 15 years to market its proprietary file format as a viable competitor to MP3 and other digital music formats.
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It was once the crown jewel of the Sony empire. But for years now the Japanese company&#39;s consumer-electronics division -- responsible for everything from TVs to Walkmans to DVD players -- has been a disaster.
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First video killed the radio star. Now it looks like the video recorder's days could be numbered too, after Britain's biggest electrical retailer announced an end to sales of the household gadget.
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UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB BSY.L   has temporarily shut down its fledgling broadband film service   after software provided by Microsoft MSFT.O was cracked,   enabling the digital protection to be stripped.
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An unusually high number of reports of intermittent playback freezes during Blu-ray movies and some games have been posted to Sony's PlayStation 3 forum, as well as to the AVS Forum and other sources, after PS3 owners upgraded to version 1.5 of the system firmware.
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Pilot fish at this big distribution center is called in to investigate a PC in the shipping area that, according to the trouble ticket, is "making a loud noise." Turns out it's an ancient PC -- and that's a problem.
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Sony has decided to give up on the music and video download business, choosing to focus on its struggling PlayStation group instead. The closing of Connect would also mean the loss of at least 20 jobs, paidcontent.org reported over the weekend.