Digital photography has been getting weird for a while, but this might take the cake. Sony has just unveiled its newest and arguably weirdest photography hardware experiment yet: a pair of devices that turn a smartphone into a much more powerful full-fledged digital camera.By latching onto its backplate like a giant squid,...
The Sony PlayStation 4 game console has a launch date: November 15 in the U.S. and Canada, and November 29 in Europe, according to the AP. Just in time for the holidays!The console will cost $399, a full hundred dollars cheaper than Microsoft's $499 Xbox One. Microsoft hasn't yet revealed when...
After last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the console war drums are now beginning to beat in a frenzy. Microsoft and Sony have unveiled details of their next-generation video-game consoles, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.Which one should you buy? We have a radical proposal: neither.Gamers can save themselves both...
My, what a difference a generation makes.A console generation, in the case of Sony's PlayStation 4. After a well-crafted press event at E3, Sony's console has even Xbox diehards peering over the fence - and me too. It took Sony's bold offensive approach to the future of gaming to make me remember,...
Apple has signed Sony Music on to its iRadio streaming music service, according to AllThingsD. The deal puts all three major music labels on board with Apple's new service ahead of Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote address, where the service is now likely to be announced. Apple is also...
Activist shareholder Dan Loeb just called for Sony to sell up to 20% of its entertainment division, and Sony has already rejected the offer in a statement provided to USA Today. Third Point, a New York-based hedge fund managed by Loeb, owns roughly 6.5% of Sony, making it one of the company's...
After Wednesday night's PlayStation Meeting event, a flurry of questions still surround the future of next-gen gaming and where the PlayStation 4 will fit in.(See also The PlayStation 4 Is Here, But We Don't Know What It Looks Like)Since then, Sony has been nice enough to clear up a few...
Guest author Prateek Joshi is a computer vision expert at a stealth startup in San Francisco.The smartphone market is about to get very interesting - with big efforts from two giant companies.Earlier this month, Sony's debuted its new Xperia Z to much fanfare at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las...
The open-source, crowd-funded, cloud-gaming Ouya console has covered all the right buzzwords. But can a $6 million Kickstarter project really compete with gaming giants Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo?Take one part gaming business savvy, and one part cutting-edge industrial design, sprinkle in some open-source software, and add a pile of crowd-sourced...
Sony has posted losses for four consecutive years, and the company has lost its leadership position in just about every market it used to dominate. Can Sony’s new rock star CEO refocus the company before Apple, Microsoft and Samsung devour everything it has left? The BasicsRemember the Walkman? The CD?...
Sony’s decision on Monday to purchase cloud-streaming game provider Gaikai for a cool $380 million could completely reshape the way Sony interacts with the lucrative gaming market.Gaikai likes to describe itself as Netflix for gaming, and that’s as good a descriptor for the Orange County, Calif.-based company as any. Users...
Once upon a time, Sony was what Apple is today: The premier brand in consumer electronics, a wellspring of innovative products that customers gladly paid a premium for. Not anymore. Sony shares have lost more than three-fourths of their value since 2007 as its losses have mounted, totaling nearly $11 billion...
As news spread on Saturday that famed singer Whitney Houston had died, millions of fans around the world did what is now customary. Well, first they tweeted about it. Then they went to one of the many sources of online music to reminisce. Whether by streaming songs from YouTube or...
Mobile advertising and marketing company Tapjoy has added a big chip to its company. The company announced today that it has hired former Sony senior vice president of marketing and PlayStation Network development Peter Dillie to be its chief marketing officer. Grabbing an executive of Dillie's stature is a big...
Every time I look at the visitor statistics for my blog, I'm amazed at the plethora of ways that people consume the content I create. Apart from the people who merely read my posts within a third-party feed reader, I have site visitors that are viewing on mobile devices of...
George Hotz, also known as "GeoHot" on the Internet, is now working at Facebook, the company confirms. Hotz is best known for both his iPhone hacking skills and as the person who jailbroke and reverse engineered Sony's PlayStation 3, leading to legal battles. In April, Sony announced it reached a...
On the heels of a Memorial Day weekend hack of the PBS website - an act of retribution for an unflattering Frontline report on Wikileaks, the prankster-hackers LulzSec have found their next target. And it's a target that's just recovering from another security breach, namely Sony.LulzSec claims to have broken...
Has the nightmare finally ended for the Sony PlayStation Network? It has been more than five weeks since the service was brought down in a hack that crippled gameplay and potentially exposed the personal data of 70 million users. In a press release, Sony announced that it is bringing full...
A lot of electrons have been consumed already about the Sony PlayStation Network outage that lasted several weeks and brought down more than 75 million gamers and music lovers. Also in the news last week was how Facebook brought its new Oregon data center (the company's third) online after months...
It looks like the problems still aren't over for Sony, which finally began bringing its Playstation Network back online over the weekend following a massive hack that exposed the information of millions of subscribers and left the company's online gaming network offline for almost a full month. News broke this...
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