Sony News & Articles

On a packed day at the CES show, Microsoft showed off the 4G Nokia Lumia 900, BlackBerry promised an email app for the PlayBook next month, while Sony showed off its first solo phone.

Sony will assume full control over the Sony-Ericsson joint venture that lasted a decade -- pretty good going -- but which now puts the reins firmly in the Japanese company's hands.

For various reasons some very high-profile sites and services have been up and down over the last 24 hours. Find out what's going on.

As Sony and Amazon become the latest brands to enter the Android tablet market, Microsoft will give us a quick peek at its own offerings, but don't expect to get hold of one anytime soon.

Sony's (news, site) consumer-focused pair of tablets are the next contenders to play David to the iPad's Goliath.

This week, there was some interesting news in the mobile space, with Google finally offering a new Docs app for Android, Sony enters the tablet wars, SMBs are looking to smaller vendors for their ERP deployments, there’s further confirmation that SMBs are taking to social media, while eFileCabinet has integrated with Intuit’s Quickbooks.

Sony (news, site) is throwing its weight into the tablet war, all set to battle Apple and others this fall with a distinguished pair of sleek home tablet devices.

As consumer and computing devices add 3D capabilities, how will the Web cope in the third-dimension?

We recently wrapped up a poll exploring our readership's Digital Asset Management challenges. The question was: What's your biggest Digital Asset Management challenge? The top response? Usability. Are you surprised?

We discussed the poll results with a few DAM specialists, including CMS Watch analyst Theresa Regli. Here are the highlights and take-aways.

Last year, Microsoft launched SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), a service that provides customers of SharePoint Software Assurance extra tools to plan and implement SharePoint effectively in their organization.

SDPS includes tools such as:

• SharePoint Deployment Plan Templates
• Architecture Design Documents
• SharePoint server farm deployment guidance

Today, SDPS offers a new service: 2010 Upgrade Planning Offer. The offer includes 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15-day engagements with Microsoft certified partners to help you decide if you need to upgrade, why you should and how you should approach the upgrade process.

Along with a nice, in depth introduction to SharePoint 2010, you get personalized advisement on how your particular deployment will be upgraded, a look at the cost of upgrading (and the benefits) and your own customized migration plan.

Lots of good stuff there to seriously consider. You can think about it over the holidays, but come the new year, SharePoint 2010 will be looming ever closer and you will need to start thinking about how you will upgrade to the new and improved version.

Get all the details about the new offer here.

Move over Kindle, Sony is throwing its hat into the ePublishing ring. Sony Electronics, which sells e-book devices under the Reader brand, has announced that it will start selling digital books only in the ePub format by the end of the year.

By adopting open standards for ePublishing developed by the International Digital Publishing Form, which are already supported by a growing number of major publishers and a growing number of reading devices, Sony will end its proprietary DRM software (that restricts how often e-books can be shared or copied) in favor of technology from the software maker Adobe.