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Sony hopes SOS offering will be a saviour

The Sony Online Service is the electronic company’s attempt to make Sony televisions and devices stand apart from the competition by delivering movies, games and music to them

Oracle wins more time for Sun merger

The European Commission extends the deadline for approval of Oracle’s proposed $7.4bn merger with rival Sun Microsystems

E-readers in short supply for holidays

Barnes & Noble and Sony failed to establish supply chains robust enough to meet demand because they brought their newest models to market prematurely, say analysts

Fragile recovery warning by Infineon

Shares in Infineon fell 7 per cent yesterday after Europe's second-largest chipmaker gave a downbeat assessment of its prospects, warning investors to continue to...

Raymarine encounters rough waters

Shares in Raymarine sunk 40 per cent to 6.91p yesterday after the marine electronics specialist warned that shareholders were likely to lose their money. The group...

Dell sees rebound in PC sales to business

Third-quarter profits sank 54% on a continued decline in sales, but the second largest personal computer maker said business customers had finally begun to increase spending

Sony to create ‘evolving TVs’

The electronics group says it will create ‘evolving TVs’ and other devices that can download and run third-party applications as part of its strategy to stand out from competitors

Twitter aims to launch work tools

Biz Stone, the co-founder of the microblogging site, says the company is close to launching corporate accounts that will helpit begin to generate revenues

‘Go global’, Japanese mobile makers told

The country’s handset companies are warned that they may have only two years left to expand abroad or risk being left behind in the technology race

Sony to bring PS3 video service to Europe

The Japanese electronics company is stepping up its battle with Microsoft over games machines by allowing PlayStation 3 users in Europe to download movies through their consoles

Asia set to overtake US in green technology

Businesses told of rising risk

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MANAGEMENT

Sound solution for music fans

Olive’s latest digital home audio system marries the convenience of the electronic format with playback of audiophile quality. It can also stream tracks to any part of the house, writes Paul Taylor

Where the internet lives

In the age of cloud computing, mega data centres are the new home of technology services. To calm customers’ fears, Microsoft keeps security tight as a drum in a building on the outskirts of Dublin

LEX

Canon / Océ

Canon graphic

The Japanese company has agreed a €1.5bn bid for the Netherlands-based group in which the US accounts for just over a third of revenues

Technology Policy Forum

Net neutrality at the crossroads

A cautionary note to the FCC

Goodbye, Macroeconomics

Industrial age solutions can’t fix information age economic problems, writes Eli Noam

The broadband numbers racket

Cherry picking broadband penetration numbers to imply the US is slipping into Third World status is fine for a quickie term paper, but adults ought sort through the multi-dimensional complexity of the real world, writes Thomas Hazlett

Dissociated Press

To preserve quality news, we need a plan that knits together business models and not-for-profit initiatives, writes James Boyle

Digital Business

Can creative industries survive digital onslaught?

Ian Brown examines the competing rights of content producers and file-sharers and argues that new business models are the future, not blocking users

Networks: Sharks and the threat to communications

The business rationale and practical considerations for undersea cables

Did IT Work? BPM is finally aligning business and IT

Technology tools that speak the same language as the business

Managing intelligence: video Q&A

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