The Morning Lowdown 10.06.10
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» David Carr paints a sordid, profane portrait of The Tribune Company under Sam Zell and Randy Michaels that feels like a combina… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Focuses On Android With No Symbian Devices In The Pipeline
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) will no longer develop phones based on the Symbian operating system despite unveiling a Symbian phone… Read more »
Chinese Video Site Ku6 Signs Content Deal With Sony
Chinese video site Ku6 is licensing rights to “several hundred” films and TV shows from Sony (NYSE: SNE) and a second, unnamed Hollywood stu… Read more »
Industry Moves: Verizon Wireless; T-Mobile USA; Qik; Nexage
– Verizon Wireless: Andrew Davies has been named Verizon’s new VP and CFO, effective November 15. He joined Vodafone in 2003, having most r… Read more »
Best Buy Adding Amazon Kindle For Expanded E-Reader Section
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Best Buy is working on building out its in-store digital reading section this fall with the addition of the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle. The… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.09.10
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» The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) saw its shares rise as high as 8 percent upon speculation that Mexican billionaire Carlos Sl… Read more »
Video: Here Is Google TV Running On Sony Internet TV
Sony (NYSE: SNE) unveiled a connected TV running Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV at the IFA show in Berlin. TechRadar has the lo-down and pics, revea… Read more »
Sony’s Multi-Platform Content Play Is A Qriocity
Sony’s long-held ambition of providing a content service available to its game console and other devices is finally coming together.
At the… Read more »
Sony Revisits E-Book Assumptions For Next Reader Rollout
*Sony* will begin selling updated versions of its Reader Pocket and Reader Touch devices today, but it is still months away from releasing i… Read more »
E-Reader Watch: Kindles Head To Staples; Borders Lowers E-Reader Prices
Target won’t be the only bricks-and-mortar retail outlet for Kindles much longer. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding the Staples office supplies… Read more »
Sony’s Patience With Crackle Persists; Playstation Expansion In The Works
The idea that online video watching would be complementary to regular TV viewing has fallen by the wayside lately, as viewers seem to be wat… Read more »
In VOD, PS3 Adds Global Channels, SeeSaw Lands NBCU
A few new deals see would-be VOD aggregators march forward at a similar pace…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is adding VOD from seven TV channels to th… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Closer To Making Part-Phone, Part-PSP?
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is reportedly getting ready to reveal a device that is part smartphone-part portable game player. The hybrid would resemble… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Ovi Browser, Autosport App, Pocket TV On C4
– Ovi browser: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched an Opera mini-style web browser for Series 40 phones that compresses webpages before they rea… Read more »
Sony Ericsson’s Restructuring Is Nearly Complete
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said in the second-quarter earnings release today that its latest smartphones are seeing some momentu… Read more »
Aggressive B&N Cuts Nook Price By 23 Percent; Adds $149 WiFi Edition
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is shaking up its Nook e-reader line, lowering the price of its 3G edition by 23 percent and adding a lower-end W… Read more »
Yahoo Says Its TV Widgets Are Now Distributed On Quarter Of New Sony TVs
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is still fighting away at the connected TV market. The company says its TV Widgets — which let people interact with inte… Read more »
Discovery’s Cosgrove To Head Up New 3D TV Joint Venture
Tom Cosgrove, a long-time Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) executive, will head up the new 24/7, 3D TV network the company is launchin… Read more »
MOG Adds Sony Music Artist Sites To Its Ad Network
A big win for online music startup MOG on the heels of its $10 million funding round: The company has now added Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music Enter… Read more »
Industry Moves: Sony Ericsson; SMS GupShup; ChaCha
– *Sony Ericsson*: The joint venture handset maker has promoted Jan Uddenfeldt to the position of CTO, effective July 1, reports WSJ. Udden… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Relocates Americas Headquarters To Atlanta
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has relocated its North and Latin American headquarters from its offices in Research Triangle Park, N… Read more »
Google TV: Next Big Thing Or Wishful Thinking?
I would love to hop on the *Google* TV bandwagon. It sounds like a fun ride with lots of great company and exciting plans. But it’s a hard j… Read more »
Android And Apple Were The Big Winners In Q1, Says Analyst
Here’s further proof that the buzz and hype in mobile is increasingly narrowing in on two mobile platforms: Android and iPhone.
Gartner sa… Read more »
Sony Expects TV Sales, Network Services To Lead Back To Growth
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Things are getting better. Sony’s January-to-March sales bounced back 12.5 percent from a difficult last year to ¥1,715.1 billion ($18.4 bi… Read more »
Nevermind 3D, Could This Be The Connected-TV World Cup?
Verdicts may not be expected until next week on the BBC-proposed Canvas connected-TV standard – but home electronics makers are already brin… Read more »
Global Smartphone Market Soared 50 Percent Over Past Year
The global smartphone market saw its best quarter for the first time in almost three years, according to Strategy Analytics, a research firm… Read more »
Who’s Winning The TV Pitch For E-Readers? Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Sony — Or Apple
photo: Barnes & Noble Nook Ad
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is the latest e-reader vendor to try TV as a way to reach the broad base of consumers needed to succeed in the hi… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Improves In Q1; Hires New CFO
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) surprised analysts with a strong first quarter, after working for the past year to cut expenses and s… Read more »
Sony And Fox Give Blockbuster A Break
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The big studios are coming to Blockbuster’s aid. Two weeks after Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) said it would provide Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) with… Read more »
Why The iPad Actually Strengthens Amazon’s Position
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Round 1 goes to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The iPad, as expected, has caused a big stir, and given people like Walt Mossberg reason to gush with en… Read more »
Sony’s Comeback Plan Includes PlayStation Smartphone
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The long-rumored Sony (NYSE: SNE) Playstation phone is now becoming a reality.
Sony is developing a new lineup of handheld products, inclu… Read more »
Sony Buys Developer Of Hit Game LittleBigPlanet
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is buying up the developer of LittleBigPlanet, a top seller on its PlayStation3 and PSP. Sony says in a blog post that the… Read more »
Sony’s Hesse More Positive on Spotify’s US Chances
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At the Digital Music Forum East in New York today, Thomas Hesse, President of Global Digital Bus., US Sales & Corp. Strategy at Sony (NYSE:… Read more »
Mobile World Congress 2010 In Photos
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The biggest news events at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona were Microsoft’s Windows 7 unveiling and Google’s massive prolifer… Read more »
The Buzz Among App Developers At This Year’s MWC May Surprise You
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For the first time this year at Mobile World Congress, an entire building was roped off for application developers with each day of the inau… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Phone Ad Ruled Misleading Over Facebook Claims
By John Plunkett: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) breached UK advertising rules by exaggerating a mobile phone’s ability to use Fac… Read more »
Two Dozen Carriers Worldwide Unite Against Apple’s App Store
Two dozen of the world’s largest mobile-phone companies, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T (NYSE: T), NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), Deutsche Teleko… Read more »
This Year’s Message At MWC: It’s Complicated!
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week will reveal in gory detail just how complicated the industry has become.
If you don Read more »
Sony Ericsson Announces User-Generated Content Platform And Three New Phones
While I was across town covering Samsung’s big Wave launch, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) was making a splash of its own at one of… Read more »
Sprint Taps GetJar To Offer Thousands Of Free Apps To Subscribers
Sprint (NYSE: S) is partnering with GetJar, an independent Lithuania-based application store, to offer thousands of free applications on a v… Read more »
