August 2009 – For the first time in 4 years, Sony Corporation’s Walkman digital music player outsold APPLE Inc.’s iPod in Japan. The Tokyo-based Japanese electronic research company (BCN Inc.) said as of August 30, Sony’s market share of its portable music players climbed to 43% which is just slightly higher than Apple’s 42.1%.
BCN said [...]
Sony’s latest laptop of the VAIO family was first announced at the IFA 2009 in Berlin.
The VAIO X series is Sony’s latest ultra-portable laptop, at one half inch thick and with an 11.1 inch screen display and possibly an Atom processor. With its compact size, it is almost like a netbook. Sony VAIO X looks [...]
Rumors that Sony has been planning to produce and release a PS3 Slim have been running around for the past few months, but now there seems to be concrete evidence supporting it.
eports from the Far East, where the majority of PlayStation components are manufactured, suggests that suppliers are ramping up production of some key parts.
According [...]
Confusion. Novelty. And in the end, a brilliant article written by a 13-year-old in BBC Magazine. The Sony Walkman launched 30 years ago and galvanized the world of portable music. It was the iPod of its time. And it was given to UK thirteen-year-old Scott Campbell in exchange for his iPod.
I think his account [...]
Maria Sharapova was tapped to unveil and pimp Sony’s latest creation: a dress that connects to a Sony phone and lights up when it rings. That way, you know when someone is calling you, even when you’re in a loud place.
Problem is, this gets rid of all the possible excuses you could have used [...]
From ISAZ Newsletter, Number 29 [pdf]:
Robotic Pets and Children: A Developmental Study
Gail F. Melson, Alan M. Beck, Peter Kahn, and Batya Friedman (University of Washington) All data has now been collected for our study of children across three age groups (7-8, 10-11, 13- 14 years) as they separately interact with a live specially trained dog and [...]
Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s PS3 Eye caught most of the attention at this year’s E3 conference, but Nintendo’s Wii, the pioneer of wireless motion-sensitive control, also had something up its sleeve. Keeping in line with its family fun and fitness theme, the Wii announced with gamemaker Ubisoft the release of a camera-based fitness game, [...]
In the past week, both Sony and Microsoft have jumped into the motion sensor fray, which is currently dominated by Nintendo’s Wii.
Microsoft’s Natal is an add-on device to the XBox 360, which seems to be the most innovative of the bunch. Instead of using a motion-sensitive controller, you become the controller. The add-on will offer features [...]
Sony on Monday confirmed Monday at the E3 conference that it would release this year PSP Go, a lighter, smaller version of the PlayStation Portable. The new PSP is smaller, lighter, and will play only downloaded games (that is, no mini disks to pop in and drain battery life). But according to John Koller, director of [...]
