Tag: Sony

Japan’s First Mobile WiMax Officially Announces Its Launch In July

UQ Communications, Japan’s first mobile WiMax carrier fund-raised by six shareholders including KDDI and Intel Capital, announced officially it had set the service launch on July 1st. Toshiba, Panasonic and Onkyo(known as its brandname of Sotec[J] for PC) started accepting advance orders for new WiMax-enabled laptop models. Sony and Fujitsu will also start selling new… Continue reading Japan’s First Mobile WiMax Officially Announces Its Launch In July

Sony Makes Mashup Screensaver for Blue-Ray Recorder Promotion

As a part of their blue-ray disc recorder promotion, Sony gives away Windows/Mac screen saver on their site. After pressing “download” button, you have to scroll down the terms of use to the end to make the second download buttons enabled. Association with the recorder having an ability to find programmes by user-registered keywords and… Continue reading Sony Makes Mashup Screensaver for Blue-Ray Recorder Promotion

Sony Transfers Their Video Sharing Site Eyevio To A Startup

Sony will transfer their video sharing site ‘eyeVio‘ [JP] to a Tokyo-based startup company called Sprasia on May 29th. Eyevio is a video sharing site which can connect to Sony hardware products. Eyevio has 1 million unique visitors and 10 million page views per month. The site was started in April 2007. Sony stated that… Continue reading Sony Transfers Their Video Sharing Site Eyevio To A Startup

“Is that a VAIO in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”

I just got back from Sony’s “VAIO type P” blogger event in Ginza, Tokyo. The type P is a pretty compact machine but it still has impressive features for a notebook PC. (I’m trying to stop myself from clicking the “Buy Now” button.) Sony’s “It fits in your back pocket” promotion prompted some net users… Continue reading “Is that a VAIO in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”