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Did Sony Overpay By $250 Million For Its Music Label? Or More?

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2008-08-05 08:12:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Sony's Howard Stringer is determined to make a go of it anyway, and he's willing to pay a premium. He's just purchased partner Bertelsmann's 50% stake in the Sony BMG joint venture. In an oddly structured deal, Sony will end up spending about $1.2 billion on the deal, but will end valuing Bertelsmann's half at $900 million The details, via a...
 
Tags: music, music label, sony, music company, music assets, warner music, music division, music industry executive, music rights
 
 
 
 
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The New Sony Ericsson W Series Phones are Giving Competition to Mp3 Players!

2008-08-20 01:00:00 by iPod News admin in iPhone nano - Apple iPhone Articles
 
Sony Ericsson is one the leading companies when it comes to mobile phone manufacturing. The New Sony Ericsson W series Phones are known for their superb sound quality and the tough competition they are giving to the Mp3 players In 2001, the Japanese giant Sony merged with Ericsson and the result was as good as Sony Ericsson that took the...
 
Tags: phones, series phones, ericsson, mobile phones, series, fashionable walkman series, walkman series, phones cater, sony ericsson
 
 
 
 
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Sony 505A Firmware Released!

2008-07-28 08:24:47 by Ric Wright in Adobe Blogs
 
...Sony, that Adobe Digital Editions now supports the Sony Reader 505. On July 24th, Sony posted the firmware updater to their website. Now people owning the Sony 505 can upgrade their Sony 505 and use it with Digital Editions The updater is available here http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=PRS505 Be sure to get the full update....
 
Tags: sony, sony reader, reader, digital editions, sony ebook, editions, sony press release, epub, books
 
 
 
 
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Sony Playstation Home Delayed Again

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2008-04-22 19:41:35 by Ashley in CyberNet
...Sony was developing a virtual world where Playstation users would be able to go to interact with others online. At the time, we knew that it was going to be a free download, users would be able to purchase accessories, but most importantly, it was expected to be available around the globe by the Fall of 2007. Fall came and went, then Winter...
 
Tags: sony, sony home, sony home receive, home, playstation home rumor, innovative online service, launch, online, users
 
 
 
 
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Sony-BMG Reshuffles, Gives Clive Davis A Gentle Shove

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2008-04-17 22:25:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Sony-BMG just announced its own moves OUT: Charles Goldstuck, former President and COO of the BMG unit and a one-time rising star; Tim Bowen, Sony-BMG COO UP: Barry Weiss, former President and COO of Zomba Label Group (Britney, Justin Timberlake, Backstreet Boys et al), is now Chairman and CEO of BMG PUSHED POLITELY ASIDE: Clive Davis, former...
 
Tags: sony, sony-bmg, sony bmg worldwide, bmg, sony bmg, chief creative officer, creative officer, sony-bmg coo, clive
 
 
 
 
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Sony Bridges Playstation With YouTube APIs For Gameplay Uploads

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2008-05-17 16:32:14 by Paul Glazowski in Mashable!
...Sony chose to introduce this week an integration between its Playstation 3 game console and the relatively new YouTube APIs which launched back in March. According to Nikhil Chandhok , a product manager for the video site, the partnership with Sony enables gamers with titles that are capable of interacting with netework updates to direct...
 
Tags: sony, youtube, youtube apis, sony chose, sony rootkit, sony enables gamers, youtube direct, sony minisodes, youtube rival
 
 
 
 
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Sony Charges $50 To Remove Crapware - Users Revolt, Sony Relents

2008-03-22 17:00:00 by Ed Hansberry in Pocket PC Thoughts
 
...Sony is offering not to include the standard Vaio applications, trial software and games that it normally pre-installs onto its systems. This software usually has the effect of slowing a computer down, and has even led to reports of out-of-the-box crashes for Sony's Vaio laptops. The option, called "Fresh Start," is available on Sony's Vaio...
 
Tags: sony, vaio, vaio tz2000, system, system restore cd, standard vaio applications, users, system resources cd, vaio laptops
 
 
 
 
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Sony - That's Sony, Not Sony-BMG - Buys Gracenote For $260M

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2008-04-23 00:49:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
...Sony (SNE) is buying Gracenote for $260 million. Gracenote supplies the track names and other information on a CD when it's played on a computer. The company is also working on a DVD information database, and a way of identifying copyrighted material in online videos, the AP reports Sony Corp. of America VP of software Tim Schaaff said that...
 
Tags: sony, gracenote, sony atv music, sony-bmg music, gracenote supplies, sony corp, information, dvd information database, sony mothership
 
 
 
 
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Sony's New Movie Service: Sony Pictures And, Well, Nothing Else (SNE)

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2008-06-27 16:36:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
...Sony's video download service launches later this summer. But you won't be able to get much more Sony's new download service , announced this week, lets you beam films directly to Internet-connected TVs, mp3 players, computers, etc. This is very cool -- unless you want to watch movies from studios other than Sony Pictures Variety reports that...
 
Tags: sony pictures, sony, ownership stake, mp3 players, ownership, beam films directly, respective industries, studios, movies