businessweek.com - 6/29/2009
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Is Sony finally taking aim at Apple’s iPhone? Over the weekend the Japanese business daily Nikkei reported that Sony plans to form a skunkworks team whose job it will be to design a hybrid video game-cell phone gizmo—one that taps the company’s years of producing PlayStation Portable ...
siliconera.com - 7/3/2009
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siliconera.com —
. July 2, 2009 . 3:24pm ps31 We
saw Sony unveil a LED wand during their E3...
press conference. The device in conjunction with an EyeToy camera brought motion control to the PlayStation 3. In addition to that Sony developed another motion control system ...
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Sony Patents A Motion Control System That Uses Ordinary ...
gamebusiness.jp - 7/2/2009
sonyinsider.com - 7/2/2009
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sonyinsider.com —
090618_01 According to recently filed FCC documents ,
the PSP Go (PSP-N1001) might be faster than we...
originally expected. While the official specs stated the clock frequency of the processor at 333MHz, FCC documents have pegged this tiny UMD-less, ...
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Sony’s PSP Go True Processor Speed Revealed
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Sony PSP Phone?
dailywireless.org —
Sony may combine a mobile phone with its Playstation Portable gaming platform, reports Reuters. It would combine functions of its portable game player with mobile phones made by Sony Ericsson. The development is seen as a way of better competing with Apple’s iPod and iPhone, as well as Nintendo’s DS.
Sony announced greater integration between its mobile and gaming units last month via the launch of a new Sony Ericsson handset called the Aino.
The device uses a system called Remote Play, ...
Felt PlayStation cover adorably transforms your iPhone
DVICE Atom Feed —
Sony may be looking to make a phone to compete with the iPhone, but Etsy crafter "rabbitrampage" has already come up with an adorable way to make your Apple product a little more Sony-ish. It's a classic PlayStation cover for your iPhone made of felt, complete with an accompanying controller.
The PlayStation case runs for $20 whenever Rabbit has them in stock, and the controller will set you back $7. There are also although covers for other gadgets, including penguin and floppy disk covers for an iPod.
Here's how it slides into the PlayStation case ...
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Sony May Finally be Revving up a PlayStation Phone
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Sony, not content with merely bumping up the specs of the PSP into the new Go version, is considering transforming the PSP into a phone too. Is this a smart move by the consumer electronics giant, or a very dumb one?
PSP Phone rumors have come and ...
Yes, Sony, You Are Competing With the iPhone
technologizer.com 8/20/2009 — Sony continues to insist that it’s not competing with the iPhone on gaming, even though the opposite is increasingly becoming true.
Tucked into Sony’s impressively newsworthy GamesCom press conference yesterday was an announcement for ...
Sources: Sony considers music downloads for PSP
news.cnet.com 5/21/2009 —
Sony has spoken with some of the major recording companies about providing music for the PlayStation Portable, music industry sources told CNET News.
The sources said the talks are only preliminary and no deals have been struck. But apparently, ...
Rumor: Sony Working on a PSP Music Store [PSP]
gizmodo.com 5/21/2009 — CNET's sources say Sony is mulling a PSP music store , to be integrated into the PlayStation Network . In light of other rumors , it's starting to sound like Sony wishes this whole "PSP" thing had gone down differently. They wish it was more like ...
Sony Reader Daily Edition Rumor Confirmed by Sony
kokeytechnology.com 8/26/2009 — Sony Reader Daily Edition is the latest edition of Sony Readers aside from Sony Pocket Edition and Sony Touch Edition that were announced earlier this month. Sony Reader Daily Edition is not yet available in the market but was announced to be out this December 2009. The exact Sony Reader Daily ...
Sony to Offer New Digital Copies Of Your Old UMD Games [Psp Go!]
gizmodo.com 6/4/2009 — So what will happen to all of your old UMD games if you buy a PSP Go ? You'll be able to procure digital copies of those discs, maybe even for free. I asked Sony's John Koller , Director of Hardware Marketing for Sony, what the company planned to do ...
Sony planned death of PSP UMD all along
techradar.com 7/4/2009 — It's not controversial to state that pretty much no one likes the PSP's UMD drive, but it might raise eyebrows to suggest that Sony itself was never that into the whole tiny optical disk concept. That's the conclusion to be drawn from an interview given to Japanese website GameBusiness by Naoya ...
Sony PSP Go game downloads to start from $1?
slashgear.com 8/14/2009 — We may be feeling sour about the PSP Go’s hardware , but its software may end up putting a smile on our faces. According to Pocket Gamer, the upcoming handheld’s downloadable PlayStation Network (PSN) games will be priced at €1, €2 and ...
Walkman, at 30, a mystery to teen —
SFGate: Technology 6/30/2009
What better way to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Sony's iconic Walkman than to ask a teenager for some feedback on the device? The BBC couldn't think of one, and neither can I. I like to imagine that the experience was similar to an ...
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