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...Much of that time was spent on scaling down Sony’s businesses, resulting in the sale of its Vaio PC business and the decision to split out its TV and Walkman divisions as separate businesses under Sony downership...
...Though forbidden from discussing it, many 8200 veterans are happy to drop the unit’s number freely in the corporate world as an elite calling card....
...Sony has hit ctrl+alt+del. Its planned sale of its Vaio PC business is the first concrete sign in more than a decade that it is prepared to ditch the dross....
...In another study, Morgan Stanley estimates that the number will be closer to 75bn....
...Sony is closing in on a sale of Vaio to a local private equity fund after several strategic buyers balked at taking on the personal computer business, according to a person familiar with the process....
...Sony’s PC business only has a global market share of 1.9 per cent according to Gartner – a number that has been declining for several years....
...Bankers dismissed speculation that Lenovo could form a joint venture to buy the overseas business of Sony’s Vaio, especially given that it has already grown to become number one in the global PC market by...
...music plays and Vaio computers....
...(Reuters) Sony in talks to sell Vaio: “Sony is in talks to sell its unprofitable Vaio personal-computer operations to a Japanese investment fund [launched as a joint venture between Bain & Co. and Mizuho...
...(WSJ) “Sony is in talks to sell its unprofitable Vaio personal-computer operations to a Japanese investment fund [launched as a joint venture between Bain & Co. and Mizuho Securities Co. called Japan Industrial...
...The move could pave the way for Nintendo, Sony Corp and Microsoft Corp to enter the world’s third-largest video game market in terms of revenue.”...
...Similar to Sony’s Vaio Tap 20, this has a larger screen and gaming accessories included such as eDice, but its internal battery lasts only 2.5 hours....
...This is particularly important because the Air’s battery is sealed and additional ones cannot be bolted on, unlike Sony’s Vaio Z, for example, where a battery can be clipped to the bottom of the laptop for...
...consoles and Vaio personal computers....
...Sony is cutting its number of manufacturing sites from 57 in December 2008 to 45 by May 2010....
...My Sony Vaio VGN-560P laptop can connect to the internet through my Palm Treo’s Bluetooth, for when hotel internet is unavailable....
...Interestingly, two picked ultra-lightweight systems – the Apple MacBook Air and a Sony Vaio, both geared to road warriors with aching shoulders....
...s One, Hewlett-Packard’s TouchSmart, Sony’s Vaio LT19U and, most recently, Dell’s XPS One....
...profit for the full year May 8 Says PS3 will go on sale in Japan on November 11 August 14 Dell recalls the Sony batteries in 4.1m of its notebook computers August 24 Apple Computer says it will recall...
...Once you have configured your activities, you connect the remote and then the RF module to your computer using a USB (universal serial bus) cable and send the configuration file over to them....
...Almost exactly four years ago Apple Computer (www.apple.com) helped start the portable digital music revolution with the original iPod player, writes Paul Taylor ....
...They were the first of a new generation of multifunction “converged” mobile devices that has since expanded to include the Palm Treo 650, Sony Ericsson’s P910a and a number of devices built around Microsoft...
...While the keyboard is not full-size, it is larger than many other models, including that of the popular Sony Vaio X505. Unless you have particularly large hands, it is comfortable....
...the full year May 8 Says PS3 will go on sale in Japan on November 11 August 14 Dell recalls the Sony batteries in 4.1m of its notebook computers August 24 Apple Computer says it will recall 1.1m Sony...
...Sony does, however, provide two USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 ports, a FireWire port for fast data exchange and a PC card slot....
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