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Sony Developing PlayStation Smartphone to Counter Apple
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By Allen Tsai | Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:42 pm |
The Swedish-Japanese group said its new PlayStation handset will work with Sony's new online media platform, the company's answer to iTunes, which it plans to launch in the U.S. later this month.Sony Ericsson, the fifth-largest handset maker, has struggled to compete with smartphone specialists Apple, BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion and Nokia in recent years. Caught off guard by the swift shift in consumer demand to touch screen devices, its sales had plummeted 40 percent, due in part to its continued focus on mid-range music and camera phones. The company has begun its turnaround after cutting costs and streamlining its production, but it has yet to deliver a game-changing smartphone that embodies what Sony chief executive Howard Stringer had planned -- products that connect to an online network of movies, music and games. Threatened by Apple's push into the portable-gaming market, Sony is now working closely with Sony Ericsson on the new PlayStation smartphone, taking a more active role in designing handsets for the partnership due to the importance they are becoming to the company's overall strategy. The new smartphone is expected to hit store shelves later this year, but details such as price and certain specifications have yet to be finalized. It will join the company's new range of high-end devices running Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Mobile and Nokia's Symbian platforms.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:10 pm | By
Apple will hold a launch event for the iPad 3 in the first week of March, as the company updates its tablet to stay ahead of rivals.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:54 pm | By
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was unfit for George H.W. Bush's council in 1991, according to an FBI investigation, highlighting his drug use and decision to not support his daughter.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:56 pm | By
Google aims to take a percentage of every iPhone sold after completing its Motorola acquisition, raising questions over whether current patent fair use standards support fair business practices.
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Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:41 pm | By
Apple may shift litigation strategies, attacking the process of "copying" rather than products, after losing a critical patent battle to Samsung in Germany, raising questions of the iPad maker's costly and aggressive tactics.
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Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:09 pm | By
Apple is facing increasing animosity over working conditions at its Chinese factories, as protestors gather to demonstrate against the iPhone maker's controversial labor issues.
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