Unflattering tales about lithium-ion batteries are once again making headlines, this time in Apple’s iPhones. In France, users have reported 10 cases of exploding or cracking iPhones, while similar claims have been reported elsewhere.
My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day. He had told me it was big, but I hadn’t realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.
These days Howard Stringer makes his home in a hotel suite in an affluent Tokyo neighborhood not far from Sony headquarters.
Here’s Sony’s Jack Tretton, speaking to Chris Morris at CNBC, on leaks:
Prime View International, a Taiwanese company that makes an e-readers display part, said today it would purchase E-Ink, a company that provides the digital ink technology in the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader, for $215 million.
A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period.
In March, an unfinished copy of 20th Century Fox’s film X-Men Origins: Wolverine was stolen from a film lab and uploaded to the Internet, more than a month before its theatrical release.
Is the digital savior of the sagging magazine industry finally in sight?
On Wednesday, Fujitsu Frontech began selling the world’s first color e-paper e-book reader. Available on April 20 in Japan only, the gadget costs 99,970 yen, or more than $1,000.
Until now, e-books like the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader have been limited to black and white or shades of gray, making them OK for reading plain books and newspapers that like to use stipple drawings, but not great for colorful print media such as magazines.
The Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson, where RSS feeds of its news content will be preinstalled on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa.
The new initiative is part of the news organization’s development Labs in an effort to reach out to more readers through new media.
A large section of the Internet today reminds me of the guy at your high school in 1984, out in the student parking lot, talking endlessly about the awesome new stereo in his red Camaro Z28. He spends much more time in that parking lot showing everyone his massive kicker box and bad ass set of tweeters than he does actually using them.
A couple years ago, right around the time Dell’s exploding laptop batteries were getting a fair amount of media attention, I had breakfast in San Francisco with a senior Dell executive. He was seriously annoyed by all the focus on Dell, even though his company wasn’t the only one with the spontaneous combustion problem caused by Sony’s batteries.
“Dude, this place is quiet,” says one avatar, a rather generic-looking 20-something guy, as we lurk on one side of the Home central plaza, watching virtual people go by on what appears, on my television screen, to be a sunny day in a modern town center. “This could get boring fast,” texts another in agreement, a speech balloon popping up over his head.
Blu-ray is in a death spiral. Twelve months from now, Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product. With only a four percent share of U.S. movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t save it.
Guitar Hero World Tour couldn’t boost Activision Blizzard’s share price despite a decent debut this weekend. Decent, but not stellar. Wii and Xbox 360 versions of the game were near-sellouts, the PS3 version less so. Good news, then, that UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter thinks the videogame industry could be recession-resistant.
In a Q&A session after the launch of Apple’s new notebooks today, Steve Jobs called Sony’s Blu-ray a “bag of hurt” and stated that licensing the standard for Blu-ray hardware and software is currently too complex. Jobs then remarked that Apple is waiting for Blu-ray to “take off in the marketplace.”
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