Sony initially tried hard to woo Matsushita, but the giant corporation reportedly had misgivings and never fully committed to the new alliance. Sony was criticized for rushing the announcement of the M2 …

While Imation and Iomega make a grab for the portable market, Sony is conspicuous by its absence. The company has announced a 1-inch drive suitable for the desktop market, but there's no word yet …

That's the view of three competing companies -- Iomega, Imation, and Sony -- each on a crusade to replace the aging floppy disk with more respectable, beefed-up storage technologies worthy of users' …

This is why Sony can invent a new recordable media like the MiniDisc and parlay it into a successful consumer product, despite the ubiquitous CD and audio cassette tape.

The major concession to Sony and Philips is the use of their EFM-Plus modulation method, which allegedly improves the error-correction capabilities of the media and gives Sony another notch in its …

Sony is investing $1 billion on new chips, including a 128-bit graphics engine that Sony is developing with Toshiba, to power the new console. Kutaragi claims the PlayStation 2 will deliver three times the …

Sony has released VAIO PCV-M350 series, the desktop version of the popular slim PC VAIO, with the wireless keyboard. Display sizes are 17 inch for MV-M350V, 15 inch for M350V5 and 13.3 inch for …

It is commonly believed that gaming will be a primary selling point for cheap Internet appliances and, already, Sega and Nintendo, plus electronic giants Sony and NEC, have signed on as partners in the …

Sony, meanwhile, has developed a set-top-box prototype that includes pen input capability. This product will be released later this year via an affiliated company, Sony Communication Network Corp. (SCN).

Sony Digital Cameras Sony has released the Digital Mavica MVC-FD71 and FD51, 380,000-pixel CCD digital steel-cased cameras with 3.5 inch floppy disks. Both models come with two floppy disk drives …