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Struggling mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson on Monday named the head of L.M. Ericsson’s Silicon Valley unit, Bert Nordberg, as its new president, and he will be replacing Hideki “Dick” Komiyama, who will...

It is very unlikely that you have missed Sony Ericsson's latest mobile phone sold under the Walkman brand; the W995, as it is called, could probably be one of the last Sony Ericsson handset that tries to stick to doing one thing...

I must confess to rarely being surprised at what happens in the IT security business, but I was amazed to read this week about Sony - home of the rootkit fiasco - admitting to a security flaw on its USB sticks.Yes folks, it seems...

Sony technology is being accused for the second time of opening up users' computers to possible hacks without their knowledge or permission. Security researchers claim that Sony memory stick software could be dangerous.Record...

Record label Sony BMG is suing the maker of digital rights management (DRM) software which was accused of harming computers in 2005. The company is seeking $12 million in damages to compensate for the effects of the software.Sony...

Pretty interesting post here by the venerable Mark Russinovich at SysInternals (Mark is one of the super gurus of Windows kernal programming). Turns out that the Digital Rights Management (DRM) software that Sony is using (made...

The Patent Office has rejected Sony's appeal to patent a video recording system because it was computer software, but has said that a claim structured differently could qualify for patenting.The Patent Office originally refusal...

Sony BMG will settle a US lawsuit over its Digital Rights Management software for $750,000. The payment will end the suit brought against the record company by the attorneys general of Los Angeles county and California.The record...

In the fall of '05, Terra Soft was contacted by Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI) to develop and manage a supercomputing cluster built upon the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux OS.This spring, Terra Soft was...

I was intrigued to hear over the weekend that Sony BMG Canada is going to compensate those CD buyers who purchased audio CDs loaded with anti-piracy software.This isn't altruism on the part of Sony, however; it's due to an...

Sony cannot patent inventions in the UK that remove the anonymity of the peer-to-peer user experience and put social networking at the heart of file-sharing. The Patent Office ruled last week that the inventions are not eligible...

Sony BMG’s handling of the DRM “Rootkit” fiasco was one of the corporate public relations disasters of 2005, but now Sony has attempted to draw a line under the affair by offering a settlement, which if accepted, could end the...

When it comes to software, the rights you’d normally expect as a consumer simply don’t apply. Dissatisfaction is not enough to get your money back or even an apology from the software manufacturer. Compare that with the...

Poor old Sony, it just can’t seem to shake its digital rights management woes.Unless you’ve recently become a hermit, you can’t fail to have missed the controversy that surrounded Sony’s use of rootkit technology to disguise...

As more versions of the Sony DRM malware appear, Sony really does appear to have shot itself in the foot on this one.According to research carried out by Sophos, the IT security vendor, only two per cent of respondents to its...