Howrad Stringer, who fought to bring a divided and struggling Sony together as the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's first foreign president, is retiring as chairman in June. He announced his departure in New York in a ...
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Sony Chairman and former CEO Howard Stringer, who has been at the company since 1997, will be leaving the company in June. Stringer led Sony for seven years, facing harsh criticism as losses mounted before he was replaced last year. ...
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A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. The contest also wound down yesterday after hackers had earned a record $480,000 over two days. The update to ...
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Motorola Mobility is cutting 1,200 jobs, in addition to a reduction of 4,000 jobs it announced in August, to focus on high-end devices. "These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer," said Motorola spokeswoman ...
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Jordan - the country, not the model - has unveiled a 25-teraflop supercomputer based on Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware. The IMAN1 computer had its first public outing at the MENA ICT Forum in Amman last week, unveiled by Zaid Abudayeh, ...
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According to the data released by market research firm NPD Group, in 2012, Apple accounted for 19.9% of the total revenue of the U.S. consumer electronics products, higher than the 17.3% in 2011, and also much higher than the Samsung's ...
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: The US Video Game Industry Outlook to 2017 - Transition from Console to Online and Mobile Gaming EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The report titled "The US ...
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Samsung will acquire 3% of Sharp for 10.4 billion yen (HK$856.8 million) to secure liquid crystal displays for smartphones and televisions. It is emphasising OLED technology that offers sharper, brighter images while consuming less power. ...
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Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said it was still negotiating a deal for greater cooperation with Sharp, despite the Japanese display-maker's securing a $110 million investment to supply LCD panels to rival Samsung Electronics. Sharp's ...
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Reader Store from Sony announced the addition of Kids Corner, a dedicated shopping section that will offer illustrated and enhanced children's content. Kids Corner supports EPUB3.0 content, a new industry standard file format, allowing ...
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South Korean firm Samsung is to buy a three per cent stake in its Japanese rival Sharp for 10.4bn yen (£73m). Sharp has been struggling to restructure its operations as it continues to make losses; the firm has forecast its biggest ...
Looking to turn a plain-Jane television into an Internet TV? The new Roku 3 flagship streamer ($100) has an updated user interface that should make finding movies and TV shows easier, plus a new motion-sensing remote control with a built-in ...
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According to foreign media reports, South Korean electronics giant Samsung is running the final negotiation with Sharp, it might invest about 10 billion yen (about U.S. $ 107 million) and purchase a 3% stake of the latter. Sharp, Sony and ...
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Nikon today announced the 16-megapixel Coolpix A, its first point-and-shoot camera with a fixed, non-zoom lens to include a large DX-sensor. In general, bigger image sensors are more desirable for capturing photos and video because they ...
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South London-based technical solutions provider Presentation Rentals (PR) supplied lighting, audio, projection and crew to the British Film Museum for the 2013 Evening Standard British Film Awards. Staged in the Debating Chamber of London ...
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