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Sony Announces New Portable Device At E3 Conference
At the E3 conference in Los Angeles, Sony unveiled its next generation portable game device called PlayStation Vita. Vita features GPS location tracking, touch interface and motion sensing capabilities to enhance the gaming experience. Vita will be available in stores before the holiday buying season. Company executives are calling the device Sony’s biggest product launch [...]
Embarrassed Verizon Launches Second LTE Smartphone
After an embarrassing delay due to “unexpected” problems, Verizon Wireless has launched its second smartphone capable of using its newly minted high-speed Long Term Evolution data network. The Samsung Droid Charge was scheduled for release in late April before the LTE network briefly crashed in some areas, preventing new activations and slowing data speeds, but [...]
Mystery Luna Robot Isn’t Made By Apple Or Google
Per CNET: Rumor had it that Apple or Google was going to release this vaguely humanoid robot, and of course rumor was wrong. Turns out it’s a California telepresence company called RoboDynamics. The robot is named Luna and is intended to be a programmable, open-source household companion. SchultzeWorks, also in California, did the design.
PlayStation Network Won’t Resume Until May 31
Sony’s PlayStation Network, already down for almost three weeks because of a massive security breach, may not be fully available until May 31, after the Memorial Day weekend when U.S. gamers will want to be playing, as well as honoring veterans and throwing burgers on the barbecue. A Toykyo-based spokesman for the company told Bloomberg [...]
Global 3D TV Market To Grow 5-Fold In 2011: iSuppli
The global 3D television market will grow more than 5-fold to account for 11 percent of flat-screen TV sales this year, as prices fall sharply and manufacturers add the function as an add-on feature, research firm IHS iSuppli predicted on Friday. It projected 3D TV shipments would rise to 23.4 million units this year from [...]
Amazon’s iPad killer in stores by Christmas 2011?
Not to be outdone by all the buzz for the newly released Blackberry Playbook or iPad 2, it seems Amazon is also joining the color tablet PC fray. Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese tablet PC manufacturer of the Playbook and Sony S1 & S2, along with E Ink Holdings, have received orders from Amazon to develop [...]
Sony Apologizes For Network Breach, Aims To Resume Service
Sony Corp. apologized for the breach of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, and said it aims to resume the online gaming center by the end of the month after upgrading security. Partial resumption of the services will likely occur in a week, Kazuo Hirai, Sony’s executive deputy president in charge of consumer products and [...]
Sony Dives Into Tablet Race
According to CNN Money: Sony is diving into the tablet race, announcing Tuesday that is working on two gadgets that will hit the market this fall. One of the tablets, code-named S1, will be a flat slate with a 9.4-inch screen, just a touch smaller than Apple’s iPad. Its S2 tablet will be more unusual, [...]
Sony PSP-2 Release Delayed By Japanese Disaster
ZDNet & Bloomberg are both reporting that the expected world-wide release this year of Sony’s new hand-help platform will be delayed. According to ZDNet: Sony’s CEO and president for computer entertainment, Jack Tretton, said that the global launch for the NGP will be scaled back to “a single region this year instead of starting sales [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play vs. Sony NGP
By now we’ve come to terms with the fact that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is not the PSP Phone that we were all wishing for, but we still think it’s worth comparing it against the game-centric Sony NGP, announced just a few short weeks ago. The Xperia Play is the first PlayStation-certified smartphone on [...]