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Microsoft’s Mr Smith goes to Europe in quest to win Activision deal

Analysis Trust us, we're no monopolists

Personal Tech26 Feb 2023 | 6

Microsoft launches full-court press to save $69B Activision deal

Updated Blocking us would be a big mistake. Huuuuge

Software08 Dec 2022 | 8

Sony, Honda collaborate on 'premium' electric vehicles that are born in the USA

Get your own Playstation-on-wheels beginning in 2026, and be prepared to pay subscription fees

Personal Tech13 Oct 2022 | 31

Microsoft, Activision Blizzard have days to show merger won't harm competition

Brit watchdog says what we're all thinking, motions for deeper investigation

Legal02 Sep 2022 | 19

Sony camera feature hopes to make digital images immune to secret manipulation

Cryptographically signs pics – but you'll pay $2,500 before you've bought a lens

Personal Tech15 Aug 2022 | 17

Sony responds to inflation with $3,700 gold-plated 'Walkman'

In truth, a non-tape media player for Gen Xers with more money than sense

Personal Tech14 Jun 2022 | 47

Sony launches a space laser subsidiary (for comms, not conflict)

Plans to beam data to satellites, and between orbiting birds too

Networks06 Jun 2022 | 9

Bonus features: Sony uses Blu-ray tech to simulate 466Mbps laser link from the stratosphere to space

Together with Japanese space agency, now imagining optical comms terminals on sats

Networks28 Jan 2022 | 11

Revealed: Remember the Sony rootkit rumpus? It was almost oh so much worse

That time Rootkitting for Dummies might as well have been in Microsoft's Plus! Pack

Security10 Dec 2021 | 67

Days Gone PC: Melting pot of open-world influences makes for one of the more immersive zombie slayers out there

The RPG Decent port of a PlayStation 4 'exclusive', but it's far from original

Bootnotes29 May 2021 | 20

Sony makes a play for edge compute chores with smart sensors

$18bn investment plan also calls for 160 million entertainment customers to become a billion

Edge + IoT27 May 2021 | 3

Sony 'Workman', anyone? Consumer giant teams with Kawasaki on teleoperated ‘bots

Japan’s ageing population and COVID inspire JV to create remote work platform biz

Software24 May 2021 | 8

Sony launches ‘Airpeak’ drone division

Hints at fun to come in 2021, for photographers and industry alike

Science10 Nov 2020 | 10

Sony, Kioxia ask Uncle Sam for exemption to serve Huawei with components

Those most likely being image sensors and NAND flash storage for phones

Storage05 Oct 2020 | 2

Ah yes, Sony, that major player in the smartphone space, has a new flagship inbound: The Xperia 5 II

Snapdragon 865-powered, 120Hz tall boy focuses on fun and games

Personal Tech17 Sep 2020 | 32

Sony reveals PlayStation 5 will offer heretical no-optical-disk option. And yes, it has an AMD CPU-GPU combo

There's a standard edition with a Blu-ray and an SSD-only digital edition. Price remains secret

Personal Tech12 Jun 2020 | 59

International space station connects 100Mbps symmetric space laser ethernet using Sony optical disc tech

As the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group launches discussion of Solar System Internet

Networks01 May 2020 | 41

I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go: Yes, Sony's Xperia 1 II has a 3.5mm headphone port

And it does 5G, but who cares?

Personal Tech24 Feb 2020 | 40

Time to call off Mobile World Congress yet? Nvidia, Amazon and Sony all sidestep trade show over coronavirus fears

MWC Can GSMA really assure the event will be safe?

Networks10 Feb 2020 | 16

Hold my Bose, we can do premium: Sennheiser chucks pricey wireless cans at travellers

Review PXC 550-II comes for Sony and co's expensive audio breakfasts armed with... oh no, a microUSB

Personal Tech20 Dec 2019 | 65

HP scores $176m win in CD-ROM drive price-fix case – after one biz emailed rival with 'Price Fixing' as the subject

Quanta was the last one standing... and now kneeling

Storage23 Oct 2019 | 22

Li-ion battery 'price-fixing' case settled with bonus fury over lawyers pocketing eight-figures

Judge green-lights $113m from Samsung, Sony, and others – but $34m in legal fees?!

Personal Tech17 Jul 2019 | 19

LTO-8 tape media patent lawsuit cripples supply as Sony and Fujifilm face off in court

Exclusive Case being heard in US, but disties in Middle East, Europe warn delays will go on till at least August

Storage31 May 2019 | 107

Long phone is loooong: Sony swipes at flagship fatigue with 21:9 tall boy

MWC Hands On This one gets everything right

Personal Tech26 Feb 2019 | 66

I won't bother hunting and reporting more Sony zero-days, because all I'd get is a lousy t-shirt

Analysis It's 2019. Should billion-dollar corps do better than offer swag for vulns?

Security05 Feb 2019 | 61

Seagate punts external PS4 drive at the millions who uninstalled their game libraries to fit Red Dead Redemption 2

Up to 4TB spinners to hold *gasp* more than eight titles

Storage31 Jan 2019 | 20

'DerpTroll' derps into plea deal, admits DDoS attacks on EA, Steam, Sony game servers

Austin Thompson, 23, cops to $95,000 worth of damage

Security08 Nov 2018 | 10

FBI fingers the Norks it wants to pinch for Sony hack, WannaCry attacks

Cruel Kim's alleged cyber-crew outed in rap sheet

Security06 Sep 2018 | 13

I've seen the future of consumer AI, and it doesn't have one

IFA Toddler-level interruptions and todo lists. Guys, try harder

AI + ML05 Sep 2018 | 141

Qualcomm's tardy chip upgrade leaves the Great Wearables Reveal to jokers and clowns

IFA The Android comeback must wait a little longer

Personal Tech04 Sep 2018 | 9

BlackBerry, Sony, Honor and LG flash their new phones for all to see

IFA Hands-on with the latest mobe kit from Berlin show

Personal Tech31 Aug 2018 | 18

Who watches Sony's watcher? Boffins poke holes in surveillance kit

Command injection and stack buffer overflow flaws bedevil cam range

Security23 Jul 2018 | 5

FTC names its dirty half-dozen half-assed tech warranty bandits

Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all guilty, Apple in the clear

Personal Tech14 May 2018 | 24

AI crisis: Sony reports shortage of cute robot puppies!

It's made 11,111 of its Aibo 2.0 robot leg-lifters and can’t satisfy demand

Personal Tech08 May 2018 | 19

Sony Xperia XZ2: High-res audio but no headphone jack

MWC18 Plus: Holey headsets Batman, I can hear a car coming

Personal Tech26 Feb 2018 | 57

Xperia XZ1: Sony spies with its MotionEye something beginning...

Review with ... oh, another very good iPhone, Pixel, S8 undercutter

Personal Tech16 Oct 2017 | 45

Android slingers tout mobes with customized baked-in big-biz configs

Chocolate Factory pushing enterprises' corporate settings right out of the box

Personal Tech21 Sep 2017 | 15

Sony remembers it once made a great little phone

IFA Compact revived with flagship CPU

Personal Tech31 Aug 2017 | 42

Some positive news: LG, Hitachi, NEC charged $65m in li-ion battery price fixing shocker

L-ion kings to cough up profits – it's the circuit, er, circle of life

Personal Tech30 Aug 2017 | 16

Sputtering bit-blasters! IBM's just claimed densest tape ever record

Yes, again. Sony – thank you for the tape you gave to me

Storage02 Aug 2017 | 36

The Italian Jobs: Bloke thrown in the cooler for touting Apple knockoffs

Feds made Naples man an offer he can't refuse

Personal Tech21 Jul 2017 | 17

Sony open-sources NNabla neural network learnings

En-NNabla-blement of answer to Google's TensorFlow?

Software27 Jun 2017 | 6

Sony: Never mind the phones – look out at what our crazy lab scientists have done

MWC Talking robots! My word, has science gone too far?

Personal Tech28 Feb 2017 | 17

Sony takes $1bn writedown: Streaming has killed the DVD star

Feeling pretty Blu-ray

On-Prem30 Jan 2017 | 59

Hitachi ponies up $3.5m for laptop battery rip-off

Joins Sony, LG and NEC, but Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo and Toshiba still fighting

On-Prem26 Jan 2017 | 5

Nintendo pulls the Switch, fires Joy-con at Microsoft and Sony

Pricing, dates... Mario?

Personal Tech13 Jan 2017 | 30

PlayStation 4 probs: Gamers struggle with PSVR headset blackouts

Whimsical folk brand problems 'Connectiongate'

Personal Tech11 Jan 2017 | 49

EU dings Sony, Panasonic over rechargeable battery cartel

Supergrass Samsung walks free

Legal13 Dec 2016 | 25

Sony kills off secret backdoor in 80 internet-connected CCTV models

Magic 'secret key' HTTP request opens up admin control

Security06 Dec 2016 | 30

Sony wins case over pre-installed Windows software

User refused to sign 'end-user licence agreement' at startup

Legal09 Sep 2016 | 194

India relaxes rules that kept Apple out of retail

Foreign investment "30 per cent local content" rule relaxed

On-Prem21 Jun 2016 | 6

Broadcom sues Sony over MPEG, wireless etc patents in PlayStation 4

Chip biz alleges console maker let tech pact lapse

On-Prem08 Jun 2016 | 7

Killer Japan quake jolts Sony factories to a halt

Don't worry, they can still make (most) of your phone parts

On-Prem18 Apr 2016 | 6

Big-screen Skype gets small farewell note

TV videocalls are so 2010

Legal09 Mar 2016 | 32

PrimaryIO first flash cacher with VAIO support

No, not for Sony notebooks. VMware application IO filtering

Storage19 Feb 2016 | 1

Sony slurps Altair Semiconductor to make 'things' sing

LTE and IoT tied up in string, these are just two of our favourite things

On-Prem28 Jan 2016 | 2