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more about #howardstringer donwonton: Sony is going to pull out of consoles. Why would they make a successor to the PS3 when the number of exclusive titles is so low. It's a money losing i... more » Sonicslasher: #sony more » aek8: Sony's mistake has been compounded by pure bad timing. They designed a console that reached too far forward and tried to make consumers pay for that.... more » AmishJohn: Dear Sony, Perhaps you would have 'started to turn around' before now if you weren't an overcontrolling, overbearing, lying, rootkit-installing, hardw... more » d1zzle: Aside from the PS3 and PSP, most Sony products are severely lacking in quality and innovation, while still maintaining a completely indefensible price... more » madara: Giz I love the recent 'blockquotes'. Especially this one in the Spidey font. Perfect. #sony more » KeyserSoze: I'd be happy if that font went away, forever. #sony more » Stevox: Sony must be one crazy multi-legged beast because I've lost count of how many feet it's shot over the years. #sony more » DBrim: I can't read that font for more than two seconds. The PS3 should sell very well this holiday season. They'll feel better then. #sony more » Gordonium: ....Spider-Man font? #sony more » Michai: Dont give up Sony, you just need to rethink your advertising campaign. I would suggest advertising the PS3 more like a complete media center rather t... more » snakepliskin: Maybe sir howard could try competitive pricing? I dont think 1300 dollars for a netbook is a good turn around strategy. #sony more » MrBlahBlah: Dumbphones will always have a market because not everyone wants to pay for the data. Also, not everyone wants the added connectivity. For example, t... more » winkerVsbecks: I don't get why Gizmodo keeps stressing that dumb phones are dead. There is a cellphone market outside the US. India and China (huge markets) mostl... more » GodwinChicken: I don't think MS was all that great, between having 2 different DRM schemes: Plays for Sure and Zune DRM which they purposely made incompatible. Then ... more » Ryanraven: Honestly when a company gets that BIG and can't control itself i find it sad. Some companies just cant handle the growth and split or crumble in so ma... more » Segador: When they ditch the Memory Stick and join the rest of the world, I'll stand up and take notice. more » Deoki: I am very sad for Torvalds not being there, considering how many things work on Linux these days. Very bad job Giz. You made me (and more readers) ver... more » FuzzysFriedChicken: No mention of Jobs on LSD? more » Chris Tomalty: What about Torvalds? more » -
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Live, From Sony's Recovery Effort
The words of Sir Howard Stringer, Chief Executive and Lead Turnaroundologist at the listing company, where no amount of superficially revamped game consoles and holiday seasons seem to be able to brighten Sony's outlook. More » -
#sonyericsson
New Sony Ericsson Chief Is Ready to Make the
Why should you care that Sony Ericsson, which has been in all kinds of restructuring turmoil for months, has had its Chief Executive replaced? Because the new guy, Bert Nordberg, has some practical, but distinctly un-Sony-Ericsson-like views on smartphones: More »HardObvious Choices About Smartphones -
#sony
Sony's Interior Walls Are Slowly Coming Down
Sony's problem wasn't just that its right hand didn't know what its left hand was doing, it was that its right index finger didn't even know that its right thumb belonged on the same hand. But they're changing. Slowly. More » -
#gizmodo79
When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
Anyone who knows tech knows certain names—Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer—but before they became legends, they were busy doing, well, some curious stuff. Here's a glance at their lives circa 1979:
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#gaming
Sony Boss Not Terribly Impressed By Activision PS3 Threats
When the largest game publisher in the world threatens to stop making games for your console, what do you do? Do you negotiate, as was their obvious goal? Or do you sarcastically poke fun at their CEO? Ah, right. More » -
#sony
Why Sony's Howard Stringer Has One of the Hardest Jobs in the World
Fortune's profile-cum-appraisal of Howard Stringer and his efforts to reform Sony paints a fairly bleak picture. Stringer's got some solid ideas, but implementing them sounds like a nightmare, and the future—even in his hopeful forecast—is alarmingly hazy. More » -
#sony
Happy 53rd Birthday Sony
Masaru Ibuka started Sony, humbly, in post-war Japan above a department store, 53 years ago today. Their opening charter warned, "We must avoid problems which befall large corporations." More » -
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Sir Howard Stringer Named Supreme Leader of All Things Sony
Howard Stringer, up until now Sony's CEO and most public face, has been named President as well. An interesting move, as he's always been surpisingly frank about Sony's unwieldy size and structure. More » -
#predictions
The Next Gadget Gods
This past year, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs began to focus on priorities other than tech. Who will fill their winged sandals and become the new Gadget Gods? More » -
#financiapocalypse
Sony Looks Set To Lose $1.1 Billion In Fiscal 2008
Remember when Howard Stringer said that he "wasn't recession proof" at this CES keynote? Yeah, he wasn't joking. Sony is about to post its first loss in 14 years, and it's a doozy. More » -
#unconfirmed
What "Major Divisions" Is Sony Shuttering Next Month?
We'd already heard Sony is planning deep layoffs—16,000 workers gone—but now the Times of London says that it's gearing up for a bunch of “sacred cow-slaying” measures, including the closure "of several major divisions." More » -
#applestosonys
Stringer to Jobs, You're One Greedy MoFo
On a panel discussion of tech elites, Sony CEO Howard Stringer called Steve Jobs "greedy" because Jobs wants a marketplace in which "only he makes money." More »
