January 28, 2006
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Microsoft Corp. reaffirmed its target to ship between 4.5 million and 5.5 million Xbox 360 consoles by the end of June despite supply shortages in its fiscal second quarter, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday.
The world's biggest software maker said it expects to make up the shortages over the next two quarters, Colleen Healy, Microsoft's director of investor relations, said.
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January 26, 2006
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Sony Cuts : Qrio, Aibo & Walkman Plant |
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As part of its ongoing cost-cutting and reorganization effort, Sony Corp. has cut its line of robotic Aibo dogs, along with another, more-expensive, humanoid robot called the Qrio, which was never sold as a product reports ZDNet
According to a company representative, more than 150,000 Aibos have been sold since they went on the market in 1999. But the overall company is in the midst of an historic belt-tightening, and the robotics unit didn't make the cut.
In other Sony Cost cutting news, the company, said Wednesday that by the end of March it will close a factory that began producing the Walkman music players in 1979 when it first debuted, according to Atsuo Omagari, a Sony spokesman reports S pi
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January 19, 2006
The world's fourth largest mobile phone company, Sony Ericsson has reported record fourth quarter sales and profits thanks to strong demand for mobile phones with camera and music features reports BBC. Sony Ericsson shipped 16.1 million phones in the last three months of 2005, a rise of 28% on the same period in 2004.
Sony Ericsson added it had shipped three million of its Walkman branded handsets since August last year.
It is also bringing a high-speed 3G version of the Walkman phone to market.
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Sales of iPod music players propelled Apple Computer Inc.'s quarterly revenue and profit to all-time highs, with earnings nearly doubling from a year earlier reports the LAtimes
Apple earned $565 million, or 65 cents a share, in its fiscal first quarter, compared with $295 million, or 70 cents, a year earlier, before a 2-for-1 stock split.
Despite increased research spending, Apple beat estimates "quite materially," said Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, an equity research firm.
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Sony has begun offering $500 trade-in bonuses on Dell notebooks and paying solution providers additional incentives reports informationWeek.
"I think that's actually great," said Andrew Krantz, senior account manager at Westwood Computer, a solution provider and Sony partner based in Springfield, N.J. "Anything that targets Dell is good. Dell has a unique way of stealing business, so any way we could steal business back is positive."
Sony's trade-in offer of $500 for working Dell systems tops the $300 it provides for trade-ins on all other systems for Vaio BX series notebooks. Sony said the rebate can be claimed by solution providers for their clients.
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