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On October 19th, 2025 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from Cryptonews:
Sony has taken Wall Street by surprise after its banking division, Sony Bank, filed an application...
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On April 6th, 2025 with 39 comments
theodp writes: America's National Football League announced that beginning with the 2025 season, Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology will assess and...
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On September 5th, 2023 with 61 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Rick Klein and his team have been preserving TV adverts, forgotten tapes, and decades-old TV programming...
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On November 8th, 2022 with 35 comments
Sony will start phasing out plastic packaging for small electronic gadgets such as smartphones, cameras and audio accessories from next year, a company...
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On March 20th, 2021 with 317 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader theshowmecanuck writes:
A grandmother let her 13 year old grandson use her credit card to buy added content for one of his games for...
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On June 7th, 2019 with 43 comments
Sony will increase salaries by up to 20% for new recruits with high-tech skills in fields such as artificial intelligence, moving away from the traditional...
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On May 20th, 2019 with 153 comments
Four years after announcing a 9% tax on streaming entertainment services, the city has collected $2 million in sales tax from Sony and two online ticketing...
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On September 6th, 2018 with 58 comments
The Justice Department is planning to announce charges Thursday against North Korean nationals who U.S. authorities have accused of being behind the massive...
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On May 22nd, 2018 with 28 comments
Sony said on Tuesday it would pay about $2.3 billion to gain control of EMI, becoming the world's largest music publisher in an industry that has found new...
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On February 26th, 2017 with 266 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Motherboard:
The video game industry is lobbying against legislation that would make it easier for gamers to repair their consoles...
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On October 13th, 2016 with 85 comments
If you've purchased a "fat" PlayStation 3 before April of 2010, you can now claim up to $55 as part of the settlement over the removal of the console's "Other...
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On August 25th, 2016 with 42 comments
Consider this a public service announcement: Sony has (finally) added two-factor authentication to PlayStation Network accounts. If you're a PlayStation user...
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On August 23rd, 2016 with 85 comments
Sony is expected to announce two new PlayStation 4 consoles at a scheduled event on September 7th in New York City, but as that date nears more leaks of the...
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On August 16th, 2016 with 32 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Softpedia: "Researcher Jerry Decime revealed details about a security vulnerability that allows an attacker to...
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On July 16th, 2016 with 99 comments
MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: Following rumors of a more powerful console in Sony's not-too-distant future -- one that will be capable of...
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On June 22nd, 2016 with 232 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After six years of litigation, Sony is now agreeing to pay the price for its 2010 firmware update that...
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On May 7th, 2016 with 63 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The times are a changin'. "Warner Music Group has become the first major record company to report that streaming has become its...
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On November 10th, 2015 with 103 comments
AmiMoJo writes: In March 2016 Sony will finally end sales of its Betamax video tapes. The firm revealed on its website that it will also stop shipping the...
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On October 26th, 2015 with 190 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Mitch Martinez creates high-resolution stock video footage, and then licenses it out to people who need footage to go along with...
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On February 6th, 2015 with 65 comments
Earthquake Retrofit shares this story about changes that may be coming to the MPAA prompted by the Sony hack. "Fissures revealed by the hacking at Sony...
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On January 8th, 2015 with 219 comments
An anonymous reader writes "The FBI launched a PR counterattack against skeptics of the assertion by the US government that North Korean hackers were...
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On December 21st, 2014 with 153 comments
An anonymous reader writes The United States has declined an offer by North Korea for a joint investigation into the hacking of Sony Pictures and asked China...
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On December 18th, 2014 with 182 comments
schwit1 writes Speaking off the record, senior intelligence officials have told the New York Times, CNN, and other news agencies that North Korea was...
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On August 4th, 2014 with 172 comments
Nate the greatest (2261802) writes Sony has decided to follow up closing its ebook stores in the U.S. and Europe by getting out of the consumer ebook reader...
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On April 5th, 2014 with 306 comments
An anonymous reader writes "As if the automated take downs on Youtube weren't already bad enough, today fans of the popular open source 3D software Blender...
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On July 29th, 2013 with 289 comments
SmartAboutThings writes "If you think optical discs are dead and are a sign of the past, maybe you need to take this into consideration – Sony and...
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On April 11th, 2012 with 290 comments
redletterdave writes "Not 24 hours after Sony announced it would slash about 10,000 jobs by the end of the year, the Japanese electronics maker announced on...
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On April 9th, 2012 with 92 comments
redletterdave writes "Sony will cut about 10,000 jobs, which equates to about six percent of its global workforce, by the end of the year. The move comes after...
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On October 3rd, 2011 with 50 comments
hypnosec writes "Smartphone maker Sony Ericsson has decided to work closely with developers creating custom Android ROMs for devices in order to learn from...
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On July 9th, 2011 with 191 comments
Beloved of concert tapers for their small size, shock resistance, and long battery life, MiniDisc recorders never much caught on with the general public. I...
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