The Japanese maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled Thursday its highly anticipated motion controlling system, as it takes aim at Nintendos dominance in the gaming sector. With the “PlayStation Move,” Sony hopes to lure gamers who have outgrown Nintendo, which launched the Wii in 2006 and became the first to introduce motion-detecting controllers.
Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment, credited Nintendo Co. for “introducing motion gaming to the masses.”
Now its time for them to graduate to the PlayStation, which offers a new experience for both casual and hard-core gamers, he said at a press conference in [...]

Sony said in a blog post Monday that the problem was likely caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system, reminiscent of the Y2K bug a decade ago. The problem is affecting older PlayStation 3 models, but not the newest slim version that went on sale in September.
The company urged customers not to use the older PlayStation 3 systems until the problem is resolved, warning that doing so could cause errors and make it impossible to record gaming achievements and restore some data.
Sony would not say how many users were affected by the problem, which comes [...]

The London-based company announced the Xperia X10 Mini touchscreen and X10 Mini Pro touchscreen and Qwerty keyboard phones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Its also working more closely with parent Sony Corp. to make handsets share content with home video equipment, Sony Corp. Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer said.
Mobile handset vendors are flocking to Google Inc.s Android platform in a bid to attract applications from software companies and dent the momentum of Apples iPhone and App Store. The new Android devices are among the [...]

The next film, now slated for summer 2012, will have a different cast and be written by James Vanderbilt, Sonys Culver City, California-based film unit said yesterday in a statement. “Spider-Man 4″ was set for release in May 2011.
The plan to restart the series by returning Spider-Mans alter-ego Peter Parker to high school follows a strategy used to revive the “James Bond” franchise, which Sony co-produced, and Viacom Inc.s “Star Trek.” In “Spider-Man 2″ Parker began college and took a part-time job as a newspaper photographer. [...]

Sonys new Reader Daily Edition, which sells for about $400, will be the only e-reader that carries the Post. Readers will have to pay $9.99 a month. And the Journal, which is available for $14.99 a month as it is on Amazon.com Inc.s Kindle device, will have an optional after-market update for Sony subscribers for $5 more.
Both newspapers are owned by News Corp., whose chairman, Rupert Murdoch, has criticized the newspaper-reading experience on the Kindle and taken aim at Amazon for offering publishers only a third of the subscription revenue.
News Corp. and Sony officials wont say how they plan to [...]

Mann, 42, whos played the series for a decade, was one of about 170 fans lined up at 6 a.m. in downtown Tokyo yesterday to pay 9,240 yen ($103) and be first to battle monsters from the lowerworld of Pulse. The game, projected to challenge Nintendo Co.s “New Super Mario Bros. Wii” as Japans best-selling title this year, is only available for Sony Corp.s PlayStation 3 console in the country.
“Make no mistake, this should help lift sales of the PlayStation,” said Yusuke Tsunoda, an analyst at [...]

Sonys Vaio X is the runway model of netbooks: stylish, super-thin and without an ounce of weight to spare. Its expensive too: the base model is $1,300 at Sonystyle.com and Sony Style stores. The price is nearly four times as much as a standard netbook.
Its carbon-fiber body, just over half an inch thick, houses an 11.1-inch screen and weighs just 1.6 pounds. How light is that? Well, it nearly blew out of my hands one day when I was walking down the street with it opened. Im not kidding. It makes 2.5-pound netbooks feel heavy. It makes the 3-pound MacBook [...]

Sony Corp. said Friday it has signed a deal with FIFA, the international football governing body, to record up to 25 World Cup games in 3-D - a technology that gives viewers an illusion of depth on the screen.
The Japanese electronics and entertainment company is one of several electronics makers planning or working on 3-D technology for TVs and movies. Sony makes 3-D capable video cameras, and plans to sell 3-D TVs for homes next year.
People wear special glasses to see 3-D footage because the illusion of dimension is created by sending different images to the left and the right [...]

Sony and Amazon.com Inc.s Kindle are both expanding into the academic world. Students at Blyth Academy in Toronto do all their reading on Sony devices, and five U.S. universities are testing the Kindle. The days of students lugging around heavy textbooks may be numbered, said Sony executive Steve Haber.
“The only ones upset about this are going to be chiropractors,” Haber, who oversees the digital reading unit, said this week in an interview. “It makes perfect sense to move to education.”
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The company said Wednesday its trying to ship the $399 Reader Daily Edition for the holidays. But because interest has exceeded expectations, the company cant be sure that everyone who buys one will get it by Christmas.
Sony unveiled the Reader Daily Edition in August and planned to release it for the holidays. Like rival Amazon.com Inc.s Kindle, the Daily Edition will be able to download books wirelessly - a first for a Sony Reader.
Sony began pre-selling the product Wednesday through its Sony Style Web site, and the site says that these orders will ship Dec. 18 [...]