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Wyclef Jean To Perform For Free Online February 10th

Wyclef Jean To Perform For Free Online February 10th(Comments)

February 8, 2010

Wyclef Jean kicks off “Live Sets,” a series of live online concerts brought to you by Sony’s new global brand message, make.believe (pronounced “make-dot-believe”). “Live Sets” will feature the live performances of three popular artists streamed in a digital environment, providing an intimate, authentic experience for an on-site and online audience. The Wyclef Jean performance [...]

Wyclef Jean To Perform For Free Online February 10th
Super Bowl XLIV Will Be Mostly Shot Through Sony HD Cameras

Super Bowl XLIV Will Be Mostly Shot Through Sony HD Cameras

More than 50 Sony high-definition cameras will cover every angle of the National Football League’s championship game, Super Bowl XLIV (New Orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts), to be broadcast Feb. 7 (at 6:25pm ET) on the CBS from Miami’s Sun Life Stadium. NEP Broadcasting will provide several trailers for pre- and post-game, main game and [...]

Sony Pictures To Shed Nearly 450 Jobs

Sony Pictures To Shed Nearly 450 Jobs

Despite another profitable quarter, Sony Pictures is preparing to lay off nearly 450 employees (6.5% of its total work force) in the coming weeks, according to an recent internal e-mail sent to staff. Most of the layoffs be in the USA, and will come in the home-entertainment and IT departments; the impact should be evident [...]

Sony Finally Posts A Quarterly Profit In Q3 FY09 Results

Sony Finally Posts A Quarterly Profit In Q3 FY09 Results

After a seemingly endless string of quarters with profit loss, job cuts, plant closings and the prescription of “restructuring,” Sony has finally posted its first quarterly profit in a year and slashed losses in its full-year projections. Sony was very candid in their Q3 FY2009 Earnings Announcement, as Sony Chief Financial Officer Nobuyuki Oneda stated, [...]

Sony Music Artists Win Big At 52nd Grammy Awards

Sony Music Artists Win Big At 52nd Grammy Awards

The annual 52nd Grammy Awards, the biggest music award show in the USA, was last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Sony Music Entertainment and its various artists is one of the largest recorded music companies in the world and of course won really big – a total of 31 awards. But [...]

Sony Acquires Convergent Media Systems

Sony Acquires Convergent Media Systems

Sony has acquired Convergent Media Systems, a leading provider of video integration solutions to the enterprise market. The Alpharetta, GA based company has established itself as an expert in digital signage and content distribution systems and will be integrated as a subsidiary into Sony Electronics’ broadcast and professional products business. According to John Scarcella, president [...]

“Dear John” From Author Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) Coming February 5th

“Dear John” From Author Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) Coming February 5th

Dear John is an upcoming 2010 romantic drama/war film starring Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried and Scott Porter. Directed by Lasse Hallström, and distributed by Screen Gems (a Sony Pictures company), the film is an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel of the same name. Some of you may remember Sparks’ last novel, The Notebook.

Sony To Launch New Retail Strategy With Sony Store Nagoya

Sony To Launch New Retail Strategy With Sony Store Nagoya

Sony is preparing to debut a brand new type of store in Japan, and more importantly a new retail direction for the company altogether. The “Sony Store Nagoya” (press release, official sonystorenagoya twitter) will open in the Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture on March 13th, and is reminiscent of what Apple and Microsoft are doing these [...]

Sony Music And Simon Cowell Turn “Syco” Into A Global Venture

Sony Music And Simon Cowell Turn “Syco” Into A Global Venture

Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment have announced the creation of a new long-term global venture to focus on the production and exploitation of music, television, film and digital content. The new venture will own all of the existing Syco television and music assets, which include the global TV franchises “The X Factor” and “Got [...]

SOE Accepting Applications For 2010 G.I.R.L. Scholarship Program

SOE Accepting Applications For 2010 G.I.R.L. Scholarship Program

Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 G.I.R.L. Scholarship to help educate and recruit more women into the field of video game production and design. Sponsored by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and administered by Scholarship America, a leading non-profit educational support program, applications are available and more details, including official rules for entry are [...]

Sony Ericsson USA Looking For Creative Digital Agency

Sony Ericsson USA Looking For Creative Digital Agency

Want a job? Sony Ericsson USA wants you. They’re looking for disruptive, show-stopping ideas. NBD – never been done. They’ve got an exciting energetic brand, great products and great parent companies with Sony and Ericsson. Come partner with them. Read the assignment below. Get your “Two-Pager” to (Kevin.Marrazzo at sonyericsson dot com) by noon ET [...]

Sony (SNE) Stock On NYSE At Highest Levels Since September 2008

Sony (SNE) Stock On NYSE At Highest Levels Since September 2008

At the time of publish, Sony’s (SNE) stock on the New York Stock Exchange is at its highest level since late September, 2008 – at 34 points. Many of us remember when the stock dipped (along with many stocks in the market) to abysmal levels when it crashed down more than 15 points in month [...]

Play.me – A New Music Service With Unlimited, Uninterrupted Streaming On Demand

Play.me – A New Music Service With Unlimited, Uninterrupted Streaming On Demand

Play.me – the newest music platform where users can stream ad-free music on demand from virtually anywhere at any time – has officially launched. Play.me’s browser-based service gives users instant access to over 2.5 million songs to create playlists and customize radio stations to share and stream through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Play.me [...]

Ryan Palmer Wins 2010 Sony Open In Hawaii

Ryan Palmer Wins 2010 Sony Open In Hawaii

Congratulations to Ryan Palmer on winning the 2010 Sony Open in Hawaii. Ryan won his third career PGA Tour title Sunday January 17, 2010 on the 72nd and final hole of the tournament outlasting Robert Allenby in an exciting back-and-forth day-long duel on the Seth Raynor designed Waialae Country Club. Ryan’s dreams became a reality [...]

Sony Ties Apple, Samsung In Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics

Sony Ties Apple, Samsung In Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics

This year the overall Sony corporation moves up from 8th place to 7th in the annual Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, tying with Motorola and Samsung with the same overall score of 5.1. It gains a point for reporting absolute cuts in greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, down 17 percent over the 8 year period of [...]

Interview With Stan Glasgow, COO/President Of Sony Electronics USA

Interview With Stan Glasgow, COO/President Of Sony Electronics USA

Merely two hours after I got off a plane and arrived at CES 2010, I sat down in a private meeting room with Stan Glasgow, COO/President of Sony Electronics USA. The interview took place about a hour before the CES 2010 press conference. It was the first time I’d ever interviewed someone on this level, [...]

Pictorial/Video: Scenes From Sony’s Booth At CES 2010

Pictorial/Video: Scenes From Sony’s Booth At CES 2010

Sony’s presence at CES 2010 was quite memorable and they demonstrated a wide variety of new strategies for their product lines. Stan and I had a really good time covering some of the products, meeting with old Sony friends and meeting new ones. I cannot express to you enough how well we were treated by [...]

Pictorial: Scenes From Sony’s CES 2010 Press Conference

Pictorial: Scenes From Sony’s CES 2010 Press Conference

CES 2010 is nearly over but lucky for you I’m just starting to post some of the amazing content captured during our time at the show. CES was far different this year for Sony Insider than last year, as the site has matured dramatically since then and the level of respect and treatment we receive [...]

The Evolution Of The Playstation Network – Sony Network Entertainment, Inc.

The Evolution Of The Playstation Network – Sony Network Entertainment, Inc.

Sony CEO, EVP, and President of Networked Products & Services Group Kazou Hirai spoke to during Sony’s CES 2010 press conference about the current state of the video content available on the Playstation Network, and how similiar services will be integrated into nearly all Sony network devices in the future. This sounds very much like [...]

Video: Taylor Swift Performs “Love Story” At Sony’s CES 2010 Press Conference

Video: Taylor Swift Performs “Love Story” At Sony’s CES 2010 Press Conference

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American country pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. At one point in 2009, Taylor had 8 songs on the Billboard Top 100 chart along with CMA wins for Album of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, Video of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year. [...]

Sony, Discovery And IMAX To Create 24/7 3D TV Network

Sony, Discovery And IMAX To Create 24/7 3D TV Network

Three of the world’s leading media, technology and entertainment companies – Discovery Communications, Sony Corporation and IMAX Corporation – today announced a joint venture to be established to develop the first 24/7 dedicated 3D television network in the U.S. The partnership brings together three leaders with an extraordinary collection of award-winning 3D content, technology expertise, [...]

Watch Sony’s CES 2010 Press Conference Live

Watch Sony’s CES 2010 Press Conference Live

For the first time ever, Sony is streaming their CES 2010 press conference at 4:15 p.m. PST Wednesday, Jan. 6 on live video on the Internet. This is such a great move by Sony because it allows everyday consumers to tap in to the exciting revelations that the massive trade show usually brings. Sony is [...]

Sony Online Entertainment Gives Back With The Child’s Play Winter Charity Drive

Sony Online Entertainment Gives Back With The Child’s Play Winter Charity Drive

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is making it easy for players to support a good cause while playing one of their favorite online video games during the Child’s Play Winter Charity Drive. With new limited-time Child’s Play items available in EverQuest (EQ), EverQuest II (EQII) and Free Realms, participants can be charitable and receive fun in-game [...]

VEVO Aims To Be The Hulu Of Music Videos

VEVO Aims To Be The Hulu Of Music Videos

VEVO is an online music video website owned by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, EMI and Abu Dhabi Media Company. It is developed and hosted by YouTube, Sony, and Google. Google’s YouTube video service will host Universal content on the satellite website, making this the first time that YouTube hosts content off its main [...]

“Grown Ups” Coming Summer 2010 With All Star Cast

“Grown Ups” Coming Summer 2010 With All Star Cast

Grown Ups is an upcoming 2010 American ensemble comedy film starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade. James, Rock, Schneider, and Spade have all worked with Sandler on films before, though this is the first film all five will have appeared in together. This is a pheonominal group of people [...]

#SonyLatest – The New Sony Breaking News Wire And Twitter Hashtag

#SonyLatest – The New Sony Breaking News Wire And Twitter Hashtag

It’s time to push things once again to the next level. The only way Sony Insider is going to survive and have real longevity in the future is turning the website into a service. Sony Insider is a blog, or a digital magazine if you will, but the problem is that I read way more [...]

FIFA World Cup To Be Shown For Free In 3D

FIFA World Cup To Be Shown For Free In 3D

Sony Corporation and FIFA have announced an agreement for selected media rights of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in 3D. FIFA is to produce the world’s first FIFA World Cup in 3D. Up to 25 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa matches will be produced using Sony’s 3D professional cameras, which will provide [...]

Sony Ericsson Moves North American HQ To Atlanta And Sheds 2,000 Jobs Worldwide

Sony Ericsson Moves North American HQ To Atlanta And Sheds 2,000 Jobs Worldwide

Cellphone maker Sony Ericsson is moving its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta and close a half-dozen sites world-wide as part of a global consolidation that will cut about 2,000 jobs. The joint venture between Ericsson and Sony will consolidate product development operations by closing sites in Research Triangle Park; Seattle; Miami; San [...]

Sony Gets Real, Defines Business Strategy For 2010 And Beyond

Sony Gets Real, Defines Business Strategy For 2010 And Beyond

Under the leadership of its new executive management team established in April of this year, Sony has reformed its organizational structure in order to bolster profitability and transform its operations, with the aim of accelerating innovation and growth and optimizing business processes, particularly within its electronics and networked service businesses. As a result, approximately 80% [...]

Sony Gulf Offers Unique Opportunity For Children At FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup In Dubai

Sony Gulf Offers Unique Opportunity For Children At FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup In Dubai

Sony Gulf announced that 16 school children from Dubai had a unique opportunity to walk the same pitch with their football idols as official flag bearers, carrying the FIFA flag for the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Dubai. Selected through the Sony Dubai Schools Football League, children from the third, fourth, fifth and [...]

Sony To Hold Hour And A Half Investor/Analyst Meeting On November 19th

Sony To Hold Hour And A Half Investor/Analyst Meeting On November 19th

Sony has notified its stockholders that its new management team will hold a investor/analyst meeting on November 19th at 17:30 – 19:00 JST. A company spokeswoman declined to give further details on what the briefing will entail. The new team, set up in April, includes CEO Howard Stringer, Executive Deputy President Hiroshi Yoshioka, and Executive [...]

Takers With T.I., Chris Brown, Many Others Coming To Theaters In Early 2010

Takers With T.I., Chris Brown, Many Others Coming To Theaters In Early 2010

Takers, directed by John Luessenhop (distributed by Sony/Screen Gems), revolves around a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low in [...]

Sony And JICA Team Up To Combat HIV/AIDS

Sony And JICA Team Up To Combat HIV/AIDS

Earlier this year from June 24 to July 3 2009, The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Sony Corporation jointly implemented “JICA and Sony For the Next Generation in Ghana 2009,” a Public Private Partnership project aiming to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS issues that form an integral part of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. [...]

Dassault Falcon 900EX N550TH – The Life Of A Sony Corporate Jet

Dassault Falcon 900EX N550TH – The Life Of A Sony Corporate Jet

UPDATE November 5th: Looks like Sony has been flying all over the place in 2009, scroll down for more pictures of its travels. Please contact us if you see it.
This is pretty random, but I was searching around flickr for a picture to use with a story and came across this gem. Apparently, [...]

Sony Philippines Offers Help To Filipinos Affected By Recent Typhoons

Sony Philippines Offers Help To Filipinos Affected By Recent Typhoons

Sony Philippines (website currently down at time of writing) stands united with the Filipino nation in its efforts to rise above the tragedy of the Ondoy, Pepeng, and Mirinae typhoons as it commits to do what it can to provide relief goods, participate in rehabilitation activities, rent its trucks for delivery to the affected areas, [...]

Heath Ledger’s True Final Film: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Heath Ledger’s True Final Film: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in the USA, is a fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. Imaginarium has already been released in the UK and Australia, and will arrive in the USA on Christmas day. The film follows the leader of a traveling [...]

Play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 A Day Early At Sony Style

Play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 A Day Early At Sony Style

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. It is the sixth installment of the Call of Duty series, and the direct sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, continuing along the same storyline. [...]

Interesting Q&A From Sony’s Q2 FY09 Conference Call – New TV’s In February, And Other Tidbits

Interesting Q&A From Sony’s Q2 FY09 Conference Call – New TV’s In February, And Other Tidbits

There was some real interesting quotes Sony put out there during its Q2 FY09 Conference call, including the admission that its TV segment will struggle to be profitable for the rest of the Japanese fiscal year, that we will see new TV’s from Sony by February, the power of the Michael Jackson effect on entertainment [...]

Sony Posts Q2 FY09 Results – Sales Down, Forecasts Improve

Sony Posts Q2 FY09 Results – Sales Down, Forecasts Improve

Sony’s reveal of their Q2 FY09 results indicate one thing to me beyond anything else: an overall lack of sales of -19.8% compared to this time last year in every segment except for music and finance. However, despite that statement Sony is looking upward and has revised their forecast, as Q2 results exceeded expectations. Operating [...]

Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” Has Incredible Debut

Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” Has Incredible Debut

Well, Sony sure scored with their $60 million purchase of the concert footage from Michael Jackson’s rehersals before his concert tour. The movie made $2.2 million domestically in its opening night, and is looking very strong at a $20+ million dollar opening day. MJ even scored an 81% (at the time of this writing) approval [...]

A Nod To Official Sony Ericsson Blogs

A Nod To Official Sony Ericsson Blogs

Want to learn more about the inner workings of the Sony Ericsson company? Well, three blogs have sprouted up in recent times that many people may not know about – the XPERIA blogger resource centre, Satio Launch Blog, and the GreenHeart blog. I didn’t even know about them myself, but it really is hard to [...]

Are You The Ultimate Gran Turismo Fan? Prove It.

Are You The Ultimate Gran Turismo Fan? Prove It.

Gran Turismo fans are invited to enter, through November 22, 2009, via video, essay or slideshow presentation, to prove they are the ultimate Gran Turismo fan. At the end of the contest, the top 10 winners will be picked and announced in early December.
The first place winner will earn the “driver” racing suit, helmet and [...]

SCEA’s Jack Tretton Welcomes All To “The Playstation Nation”

SCEA’s Jack Tretton Welcomes All To “The Playstation Nation”

Jack Tretton is the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA), a division of Sony Computer Entertainment, which is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation. He is primarily responsible for the company’s United States market. After graduation from Providence College with a marketing degree, New England-born Tretton became a territory manager for the [...]

Interview With David Migdal, VP of Communications at Sony Electronics Inc

Interview With David Migdal, VP of Communications at Sony Electronics Inc

To better familiarize our readers, David Migdal is the Vice President of Communications at Sony Electronics Inc, handling all consumer and professional products including HDTV, Digital Imaging, Blu-ray, etc. as well as overseeing the company’s social media efforts. He is a results-oriented corporate communications executive with demonstrated strength in strategic planning and tactical execution, media [...]

New Michael Jackson Song “This Is It” Hits Web, Two-Disc Album Now Available

New Michael Jackson Song “This Is It” Hits Web, Two-Disc Album Now Available

The first new Michael Jackson song to emerge since the world mourned the loss of this musical icon has been released – a brand new single entitled “This Is It.” Sony Music Entertainment’s Columbia/Epic Label Group has also released the two-disc album This Is It (you can purchase at that link) featuring the music that [...]

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Getting Renovations, New Tower Addition

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Getting Renovations, New Tower Addition

The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts has confirmed renovation and restoration plans that will see a revitalized theater open in the fall of 2010 to celebrate the building’s 50th anniversary. The theater, designated a historical site by the City of Toronto, will undergo major renovations and restorations starting in October 2009. The project will [...]

Pictures From The Sony VAIO Experience At Guastavino’s In NYC

Pictures From The Sony VAIO Experience At Guastavino’s In NYC

Sony unveiled three new laptops yesterday in NYC, including the CW Series laptop, L Series touchscreen desktop PC, and the 13.9mm X Series notebook. The setting was perfect for high style, glamor and incomparable panache at New York’s architectural masterpiece, Guastavino’s. The sprawling 25,000 square foot private event space is a designated New York City [...]

Rogers Plus And Sony Canada Brighten The Days Of Hospitalized Children

Rogers Plus And Sony Canada Brighten The Days Of Hospitalized Children

Rogers Plus and the Sony Canada Charitable Foundation have revitalized the Jolly Trolley program with the eager help of young patients in Canadian hospitals coast-to-coast. For the past 16 years, the Jolly Trolley program has brought colorful mobile entertainment units to young patients across the country in hopes of generating smiles and providing a welcome [...]

Sony Ericsson Partners with Comverse on Visual Voicemail

Sony Ericsson Partners with Comverse on Visual Voicemail

In a press release recently announced, Sony Ericsson has partnered with Comverse to bring visual voicemail to their line of handsets. Given the popularity of visual voicemail on the iPhone, offering this to the Ericsson line of phones will make customer’s extremely happy.
No details yet on availability or on which devices this is set to [...]

Venom Moving Forward

Venom Moving Forward

Scifiwire had a chance to talk with Paul Wernick about the status of the Venom movie spin-off.  Wernick confirmed that a script has indeed been turned into Sony:
We’ve written two drafts of Venom, and the studio has it, and they’re pushing forward in whatever ways they push forward
When asked when the film might go into [...]

Sony Electronics Inc. Dedicates New Green San Diego Based Headquarters

Sony Electronics Inc. Dedicates New Green San Diego Based Headquarters

Sony Electronics Inc. USA brought employees, government officials, community members, building partners and representatives of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics, Inc. and HelioPower together to celebrate the opening of their new 455,000 square foot “green” headquarters in San Diego. The building, constructed in two years, was built with an emphasis [...]


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