At the beginning there were Ibuka and Morita, the founders of Sony. At the end, a clusterfuckassery of blah models. And in the middle, a Big Bang of brilliant electronic gadgets, full of firsts and smallests. Here's the whole timeline.

• Small JPG [164KB]
• Medium JPG [952KB]
• Large JPG[10.4MB]

Not feeling the PS3 Slim? Short on cash yet really jonesing for a PS3 something fierce? This deal may be for you, if you don't mind the fatter, older hardware.

Watch out Apple! Sony is clearly gunning for a chunk of your stylish retail business by partnering with a name known for its popularity amongst customers and its excellent support and services: Comcast. Updated.

Sony has dropped a brand-new feature on its PS3 console that will let you buy Premium themes—specialized themes that contain high-quality graphics, customized buttons, and (sometimes) special sounds. Since they cost real money, PS3 users will have an option to preview the images before deciding to drop the cash. The…

Sony Style has posted a teaser on its front page promising that the company's going to drop some knowledge on Monday at 9PM. Chances are, it's about Sony's new Centrino 2-based VAIO line, which should offer better performance while consuming less power than its older models. Laptops rumored to be featured include the…

Good news! You can stop trying to fit that run-down Vaio or broken Playstation into the mail bin and instead drag them on over to Sony Style! Sony is firing up Backstage, its new in- store tech support service which will diagnose, repair or even hand out a fabled replacement if the problem can't be resolved. Sounds a…

We already knew that The New York Times is warm and fuzzy on the Apple Store. But the lovin' gets hot and sloppy in yesterday's article "Apple's Lesson for Sony's Stores: Just Connect." How unconditionally does the Times' Randall Stross love the Apple Store?

For the 20GB PS3, it looks like the end is near. Sony's official store, Sony Style, as well as the websites of Best Buy, Gamestop and EB are no longer carrying the 20GB model, instead only offering its buffer, more expensive brother. While it remains on Amazon for the time being, there's no telling how much longer it…

Our beloved and ever-helpful second cousins twice removed at Lifehacker point us to Sony, offering a unique deal on camcorders that's good until the end of this month. Take a look: