YouTube Inches Closer To Renting Movies But Nothing Imminent
YouTube’s move into content that people might pay for — instead of click on enough to make advertisers happy — is inching toward the next… Read more »
Sony To Distribute Google Chrome On New Vaio PCs
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) has agreed to put Google’s Chrome browser on new Vaio PCs in the first of what is likely to be several distribution deals t… Read more »
DRM Provider Intertrust's Patent Push Sparks Added Concerns Among Rivals
DRM provider Intertrust has had a tough enough time making inroads into the U.S. market with its promises to guard content providers’ conten… Read more »
AT&T Readies Its 3G Network For Sony eBooks Device
The big news Sony’s press conference for its new line of eReaders was the deal with AT&T (NYSE: T) to provide its 3G wireless connection to… Read more »
Sony Unveils Three Would-Be Kindle Killers– Pocket, Touch and Now, 3G Wireless With AT&T
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is ramping up its challenge to Amazon’s Kindle with three versions of its eReader, which it unveiled at a press conference… Read more »
Can Sony's 'DigiDads' Blog Plan Avoid Scrutiny From The Feds?
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Enough of the mommy-bloggers. Sony (NYSE: SNE) Electronics has launched a social media marketing campaign around blogging dads, according to… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Sony's UK Movie Downloads; Motorola-Blockbuster; Bebo's Fashion Show; BBC
– Sony (NYSE: SNE) movie downloads: European PS3 and PSP owners will be able to download full-length movies from November. Sony is rolling… Read more »
Under Pressure, Sony Finally Slashes Price Of PlayStation 3
Hoping to turn around sales of the PlayStation 3, Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) has finally introduced a new, cheaper model of its gaming console.… Read more »
Industry Moves: Sony Ericsson Appoints Ericsson Exec To Become President In October
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced a number of high-level executive changes today as it struggles to return to profitability.… Read more »
Report: Sony Aims For iPhone Crowd With PSP Game Pricing
*Sony* launched its new PSPgo handheld amid a ton of hype at E3, but most of the buzz swirled around how expensive it was. (Its $250 price t… Read more »
The iPhone Wrap: Sony/iLike's New App; Id's Aggressive iPhone Game Strategy
For all the talk about Apple’s restrictive approval policies for iPhone apps — big companies and indie developers just keep launching new o… Read more »
Sony Ericsson's First Round Of Apps Is Limited
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has approved its first swath of applications for its new PlayNow Arena app store, which it launched j… Read more »
Sony Breaks $199 Barrier With New E-Reader — But Still No WiFi
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Updated: *Sony* plans to launch two new e-readers tomorrow — one with a touch screen priced at $299 and one at $199 — to better compete in… Read more »
Social Coup: Sony Execs Leave To Start New Social Gaming Company
The brain drain from big, corporate gaming companies to small, social gaming studios continues. The latest giant to take a hit is *Sony* Onl… Read more »
Reports: Samsung, LG And Apple Steal Marketshare During Difficult Second Quarter
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Two major handset reports were released today breaking down the global mobile phone market in the second quarter. The conclusion was that Sa… Read more »
Earnings: Sony Down On Falling Gadget Sales, High Yen
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has announced a loss for the third consecutive quarter, two months after posting its first full-year loss in 14 years. The… Read more »
Apple, Labels Jamming On Ways To Boost Music Sales
“Don’t it always seem to go you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” … Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) didn’t pave paradise but it helped kill o… Read more »
Report: Cellphone Forecast Gets Rosier For 2009
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After strong second-quarter handset sales were reported by LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung this week, ABI Research is revising its forecast for… Read more »
Sony Ericsson’s App Store Lays Out Revenue Splits, Price Minimums And More
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has opened up the new PlayNow Arena app store to developer submissions, and in doing so, has revealed… Read more »
MCC May Bid For IPL Franchise In 2011: Report
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Days after it said that IPL was hastening the death of test cricket, it has emerged that the venerated London-based MCC (Marylebone Cricket… Read more »
Sony Online Entertainment Cuts 5 Percent Of Workforce
Sony’s online games unit has laid off 41 employees, or five percent of its workforce, we have confirmed with the company. A Sony (NYSE: SNE)… Read more »
Earnings: Sony Ericsson Reports Fourth Straight Quarterly Loss
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) reported a fourth straight quarterly loss in the second quarter, after shipping 13.8 million phones,… Read more »
Amazon Drops Kindle 2 Price To $299
Two price cuts don’t make a pattern but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is making the same move with Kindle 2 that it tried with Kindle 1: sell it with… Read more »
Sony’s Stringer Dismisses Kotick’s PS3 Threats As ‘Noise’
It took a few weeks, but *Sony* CEO Sir Howard Stringer has responded to *Activision* CEO Bobby Kotick’s very public threat to stop making g… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits 7.06.09
» Sprint (NYSE: S) has started subsidizing netbooks for nearly nothing. Will AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) follow? [JK On… Read more »
Sony Invests In Online Indie Music Distributor IODA
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music Entertainment has taken a stake in indie digital music distribution service IODA. Financial terms were not disclosed,… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits: 6.29.09
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» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) doesn’t think you need a fancy phone to get information at your fingertips, just SMS service. [TechCrunch]… Read more »
Sony’s Comeback Plan May Include Hybrid Cellphone-Game Player
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) may be developing a new phone that would better compete with the iPhone and be offered as an alternative to the PlayStation… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits For Sunday
» CQ’s sale to rival Roll Call, part of The Economist Group, seems like a done deal. What will happen after the merger? [Politico… Read more »
paidContent’s Quick Hits For Saturday
» With a market valuation of $419 million and $370 million in cash, is incremental innovation for the sake of it, and fighting bi… Read more »
Industry Moves: Ericsson’s CEO Leaves; CFO Is Promoted
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Ericsson’s CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg is leaving his post to become chairman of British oil giant BP. The company’s current CFO and EVP Hans V… Read more »
Activision’s Kotick: ‘We May Not Make Games For The PS3 Next Year’
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It’s one thing when indie developers, bloggers and a couple of analysts plead with Sony (NYSE: SNE) to come down on the price of the PS3. It… Read more »
GetJar To Provide Virgin Mobile France’s Upcoming App Store With Free Applications
GetJar, the independent mobile app store, has struck a deal with *Virgin Mobile* France, to provide the French carrier Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: PlayNowPlus; Qik On N97; MoxieQ Launches; AT&T Tethering; App Sales On Weekends
– PlayNowPlus: SonyEricsson’s pre-licensed unlimited music download package is to be bundled with some its W595 phone through Orange in Aus… Read more »
Sony Swings High With Pricing (Yet Again) On PSP Go
Plenty of details about Sony’s new PSP Go had been leaked in recent weeks — but the company saved the biggest news about its next-gen porta… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Adds Apps To PlayNow; Partners With GetJar To Beef Up Catalog By About 45,000
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the fifth-largest mobile-phone maker in the world, is revealing its plans today for a mobile applica… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Ditches Proprietary Memory Cards For Standard MicroSD
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is dropping its proprietary memory card format in favor of the standard and more popular MicroSD, whi… Read more »
Sony Not Pursing Music Downloads For Its Playstation Network, For Now
Sony (NYSE: SNE), which can never make up its mind about its digital downloads strategy for the Playstation brand, has done another about tu… Read more »
eMusic Gets Its First Major – But Sony Only Gives Its Long Tail
Eleven years after it opened up shop, eMusic has finally won its first major-label repertoire, in the shape of Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music Entert… Read more »
Sony Ericsson Launches One Year Of Free Movies With Purchase Of Phone
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have Comes With Music, but Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has one-upped them, by jumping directly to movies. T… Read more »
