Sony wares win innovation award
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Electronics giant Sony has won an innovation award for its "brave" commitment to design.
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Sony says its digital music players will now play MP3 music tracks, and not just its own format.
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Japan's Sony Corp. on Thursday posted record high second quarter net profits, helped by brisk sales of digital cameras and laptop computers which offset heavy losses from the PlayStation 3.
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Sony&#39;s new generation of digital music players play both its Atrac format and MP3s, allowing Japan&#39;s electronics giant to better compete with Apple&#39;s iPod.
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Sony said its profit rose in the final three months of 2007, helped by robust sales of televisions and computer games.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) and Samsung Electronics (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday they had agreed to share patents on basic technology to speed up
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(InfoWorld) - SonyÂ is reshuffling responsibilities in its key electronics group, allowing the head of the division to play a bigger role in Sony's research and development actvities. The company, which is still investigating the cause of laptop PC fires caused byÂ faulty Lithium Ion batteriesÂ it produced, will shift day-to-day control of all its major consumer and industrial products to Katsumi Ihara, Sony said on Monday. Ihara currently heads Sony's TV and video business. His new responsibilities will include Sony's Vaio computers, digital still cameras, digital video cameras, and Walkman audio products. Sony's semiconductor and component business will be put under the day-to-day control of Yutaka Nakagawa, who currently heads the digital imaging and audio business. Nakagawa will also be promoted from executive vice president to executive deputy president. Putting the running of the product and component businesses under Ihara and Nakagawa will mean that Ryoji Chubachi, president and CEO of the electronics business, will be free to take direct control of Sony's research and development activities.
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Nov. 30--NEW YORK -- Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. said Monday they will launch digital consumer appliances with highly advanced semiconductors in 2006.
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Sony announces new functionality for both its PS3 and PSP gaming hardware.
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Sony Corp., the world leader in video  equipment, finds itself in the unusual position of playing  catch-up in the next battleground for technology used in  cameras, video recorders and phones.
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Coby Electronics is turning into a world-class electronics innovator, one that can compete head to head with the Sonys and Samsungs of the world.
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LONDON - After a year of negotiations two of the world&#39;s giants of consumer electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp.
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Sony is developing a wireless data transfer system for gadgets that is capable of sending pictures, video, and data over a range of a few centimeters.Transfer Jet is based on a Sony-developed near-field communications system that the company envisages being built into a range of different portable consumer electronics devices to enable transfer without wires. Effective data rates of about 375Mbps&#160;over a 560Mbps physical layer can be realized with the system, which puts it faster on paper than USB2.0 and IEEE1394 FireWire interfaces.A prototype of the system is on show this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. In a demonstration, a digital camera equipped with Transfer Jet and about 45 images was placed onto a version of Sony&#39;s photo reader box that also packed the technology. After a short pause, the images began transferring and within a few seconds the VGA-resolution images were inside the photo reader and could be viewed on a television.Sony clearly sees big things ahead for the technology. During a CES news conference Steve Haber, a senior vice president with responsibility for mobile and imaging products, said Transfer Jet &quot;could also play a key role for Sony moving forward.&quot;Transfer Jet has been under development by Sony for a couple of years and there&#39;s about a year&#39;s worth of work left before it&#39;s ready for the commercial market, said Kentaro Odaka, general manager of Sony&#39;s communication technology laboratory, in an interview.Odaka said the technology is based on a completely new near-field system developed by Sony that isn&#39;t related to its already-popular Felica system. Felica is widely used in smartcards across Asia but lacks the data throughput for more demanding applications. Transfer Jet uses a 4.5GHz system that is different but similar to ultra wideband, he said. The system has no security or encryption because it operates over a distance of a few centimeters.Sony gave a few hints on where Transfer Jet might turn up. In the demonstration at CES it is embedded into a digital still camera and digital video camera. &quot;Look for Transfer Jet technology in a variety of new products in the near future,&quot; said Haber.
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Two of the world&#39;s consumer electronics giants, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp., have signed a cross-license agreement detailing mutual usage of patents across major product lines owned by the two companies.
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Sony Corp. said U.S. sales of electronics have been better than expected so far this holiday shopping season, fueled by demand for flat-panel televisions and digital cameras.
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Sony Corp., the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant. said Thursday that its profit jumped 61.6 percent in the latest quarter on improved profitability in its mobile phone joint venture and gains in its movie business, led by "Spider-Man 2."
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Sony has developed an  environmentally-friendly prototype battery that runs on sugars  and that can generate enough electricity to power a music  player and a pair of speakers, the Japanese company said.