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Sony's PS4 is a win - with reservations
Sony's high-octane presentation of its next-generation PlayStation 4 gaming system mostly impressed observers.
FORTUNE -- On Wednesday night, Sony launched the latest version of the Playstation to thumping music, lasers, and a giant screen that wrapped around the audience. The company hopes the super-charged PS4 will help it retake the top spot among console makers and prove its relevance in the changing games market. The games maker touted slick graphics and MORE
Feb 21, 2013 10:51 AM ET -
With PlayStation 4, Sony reboots its games business
Sony's vastly improved PlayStation 4 game system is set to launch later this year. The company hopes it can help it regain lost momentum.
By Matt Vella, deputy technology editor
FORTUNE -- Sony Corp. unveiled its PlayStation 4 video game console Wednesday, introducing a machine with dramatically improved technical abilities, crisp graphics, and a slew of social networking features. The new console is a major bid by the company to regain momentum MORE
Feb 20, 2013 9:35 PM ET -
4 features the PlayStation 4 absolutely must have
This week, Sony will likely take the wraps off its new game console. Here's what it must be able to do in order to have a chance of succeeding.
FORTUNE -- Can Sony deliver a jolt to the ailing video game console market? The Japanese electronics company will certainly try this week if, as expected, it unveils its next-generation PlayStation 4.
Sales of the PlayStation 4 will be scrutinized from day one. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 20, 2013 8:58 AM ETPosted in: Gaming, gaming devices, handheld gaming, microsoft kinect, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Sony, Xbox -
Christmas Eve at the Apple, Microsoft and Sony stores
In Los Angeles' Century City mall
FORTUNE -- In his second entry in our continuing series of contrasting store photos, reader Howard Kaplan paid another visit Monday afternoon to the Westfield Century City mall, half-way between Beverly Hills and Westwood, California.
The photo at right and the first one below were taken at the Apple (AAPL) store at about 3 p.m.
The next two were shot at the mall's Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 24, 2012 8:59 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Is Microsoft's new logo hit or miss?
Sony Mobile laying off 1,000 people; why the freemium business model isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Microsoft gets a new logo [THE SEATTLE TIMES]
The new logo, which incorporates a multicolored Windows symbol in addition to the "Microsoft" name in straightforward, lighter type, is intended to "signal the heritage but also signal the future — a newness and freshness," said Jeff Hansen, Microsoft's general manager of brand strategy. It's coming MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 23, 2012 1:11 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Amazon to produce four TV projects
One of Facebook's earliest female employees recalls what it was like to work there; what it's really like to work at an Apple Store.
Apple Stores' army, long on loyalty, but short on pay [THE NEW YORK TIMES]
About 30,000 of the 43,000 Apple employees in this country work in Apple Stores, as members of the service economy, and many of them earn about $25,000 a year. ... Divide revenue by total number MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 25, 2012 8:52 AM ET -
The agony of Japan Inc.
Companies like Apple, IBM and Microsoft once stood in the shadow of much larger and more powerful Japanese electronics giants. Those days are long gone -- and, lately, it looks like they may never come back.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
"This country is in a war and some people understand it and some people are siding with the enemy."
FORTUNE -- Believe it or not, someone once wrote those paranoid words about MORE
May 25, 2012 10:40 AM ET -
Three scenes from Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic we can't wait to see
Apple's CEO left the master of dysfunctional relationships a lot of material to work with
FORTUNE -- Viewers who have followed Aaron Sorkin's TV and film work over the years were delighted to learn Tuesday that one of Hollywood's most gifted screenwriters has officially signed on to adapt Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs for Sony Pictures' (SNE) film.
Sorkin is the master of romantic relationships that are painfully, hilariously dysfunctional. The MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 16, 2012 11:35 AM ET -
With 8.8% market share, Apple has 73% of cell phone profits
Among the major vendors, Samsung captured 26%, HTC took 1%, and the rest lost money
FORTUNE -- Asymco's Horace Dediu on Thursday updated his quarterly review of mobile phone profits, and the news for everyone but Apple (AAPL) and Samsung is not good.
Apple is in roughly the same position it was last quarter, with an 8.8% share of the market in terms of units shipped (according to IDC) and a share MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 3, 2012 7:48 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Is Path worth $250 million?
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the weekend. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.
* Sony (SNE) hasn't had a hit product in years, and expects to lose $6.4 billion this year alone. The New York Times offers an excellent look at Japanese giant's fall from grace. (The New York Times)
* Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin believes the Internet's underlying principles -- openness and universal access -- are being threatened MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 16, 2012 11:16 AM ET
