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Sony's Playstation phone to be called the 'Xperia Play'

A trademark filing reveals what would be the likely name of the upcoming PSP Phone from Sony.

We're likely to find out much more about Sony's Playstation phone next month at CES or at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the following month in February. Today, however, PocketNow found what is likely to be the trademark name for the device in the EU.

The name "Xperia Play" suggests that the phones will stick MORE

A smartphone race to the bottom

In a turf war between Android and Windows Phone 7, Apple's iPhone could be the winner

"The major event in the [past] quarter," writes Needham's Charlie Wolf in a note to clients issued Friday, "was the successful launch of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's new smartphone operating system."

With so much at stake, he expects Microsoft (MSFT) to compete aggressively with Google (GOOG) for the loyalty of the major smartphone manufacturers: HTC, Samsung, MORE

Today in Tech

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.

News Corp head Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs are reportedly knee-deep in the Daily, a digital newspaper that combines "tabloid sensibility" with "broadsheet intelligence" and will appear exclusively on tablets like the iPad some time early next MORE

Sony Ericsson rides Android coattails to profitability

Once thought to be down and out, Sony Ericsson just announced its third profitable quarter in a row...and huge Android ambitions.

Sony Ericsson is in a very similar situation as Motorola (MOT) in the U.S. Its share of the mobile phone market has been waning over the past five years and they need a savior.  Just like Motorola, Sony Ericsson's "all-in" with Android.  Over the past year, that has MORE

Today in Tech: News around the Web

A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.

"The world doesn't need another platform." -- Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin on Windows MORE

Mobile phones: Who's up, who's down and who's moving sideways

Three years of pitched battle for share and profit reduced to a set of vectors

Asymco's Horace Dediu is a master of the art of turning bland data into eye-opening visualizations.

His latest, posted Tuesday afternoon, starts with two sets of data in two points of time -- market share and share of profit in 2007 and 2010 -- for eight vendors in the mobile phone space, from Apple (AAPL), the smallest MORE

Today in Tech: News around the Web

A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.

"In my opinion, your motives are driven by self-serving factors around ego satisfaction and 'making a buck.'" -- Angel investor Ron Conway to a group of super MORE

Sony Xperia X10 hitting AT&T with Android 1.6?

Someone at Sony Ericsson didn't get the memo: Android 2.2 is the only game in town.

The Boy Genius is hearing that the Sony Xperia will be hitting AT&T's network in the coming weeks.  Sony's Experia X10 from a hardware perspective is a very solid Android phone.  It is pretty much on par with the best HTC and Motorola offer:  4-inch, 480x854 pixel screen, 1GHz Snapdragon Processor and 8 megapixel camera.  It MORE

Ericsson CEO: Devices, not phones, are the future of wireless

Even the wireless industry's biggest bulls couldn't have predicted the coming mobile explosion.

Wireless phone companies and equipment manufacturers totally underestimated the potential of their own industry, says Ericsson (ERIC) CEO Hans Vestberg. Now he and his company are preparing for a totally interconnected world in which billions of consumers -- and machines -- talk non-stop to one another via wireless networks.

"What I've learned in this industry, and I've spent 18 MORE

Five easy Apple charts

If a picture is worth a thousand words, here's five grand worth of Apple (AAPL) news in charts and lists released over the past couple of days.

1. Web Brands. Apple scored No. 10 in Nielson Online's ranking of the top Web brands based on the number of unique visitors each site drew in December 2008 -- which isn't bad considering Apple.com's focus is so much narrower than the brands it's MORE