Posts Tagged ‘Sony’

Playstation Suite SDK Enters Beta

April 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following a closed beta late last year, Sony has made available the Playstation Suite SDK to the global audience. The suite allows developers to build apps for Playstation Suite certified devices like Playstation Vita, Xperia smartphones and tablets.

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Sony’s SmartWatch Hits the States

April 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Sony has released its SmartWatch in the US. The SmarWatch is a followup to the SonyEricsson LiveView and allows Android phones to send updates to it. In return, the SmartWatch can be used as a remote for mobile apps.

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Sony Restructuring Leads to 10.000 Layoffs

April 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Sony’s recent restructuring announcements will mean a loss of jobs for 10.000 of its employees. Sony’s Kaz Hirai announced it will take the company 12 months to let the employees go.

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Sony Removes Second Vita Game from SEN

March 29th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Playstation Vita | No Comments »

Sony has pulled the second Vita game from their virtual shelves. This time, Everybody’s Tennis from Sony itself is pulled, only days after the company pulled their Motostorm Arctic Edge offline.

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Sony One Combines Xperia and Vaio Branches

March 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Under Sony’s CEO to be (starting April 1st) Kazuo Hirai, Sony will be restructured. The restructuring leads to a new Sony with a three-pillar approach. In that approach, the Xperia and Vaio products will be coming from a combined unit.

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Sony Releases Custom Rom Manual for Xperia S

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Sony’s new flagship device, the Xperia S, is the first to run on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon S3 SoC. Though Sony already made the bootloader available, the company felt the urge to release a manual for those eager to build their own Android roms.

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Sony Starts Sony Ericsson Rebranding Campaign

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With the first Xperia’s with the Sony logo on the shelves, Sony has started a global promotional campaign to introduce itself as well as the new slogan “Made of Imagination” to the (smartphone) consumer.

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Sony Debuts Floating Touch Technology

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Today, Sony introduced their new Xperia Sola smartphone. The device, running on a 1Ghz dual-core CPU and Android 2.3 (ICS upgrade coming) introduces a new technology to developers called Floating Touch.

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Sony to Launch Windows Phone Devices!?

March 12th, 2012 by Roelof Posted in Platforms: Playstation Vita, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

With the change from Sony Ericsson to Sony, comes not only a name change. The company seems to be interested in exploring opportunities with Microsoft again. Sony Ericsson’s first Xperia device ran Windows Phone.

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Playstation Suite SDK in Open Beta Next Month

March 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Next month, developers can start making use of the open beta SDK for the Playstation Suite service. Sony has performing closed beta testing before, but stuck to mostly Japanese, US and UK developers.

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